Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. A couple of years ago, I wrote an article titled “We May Have Been Wrong To Mock GM’s Big Battery Approach To Electric Trucks.” Back then, it was incredibly easy to point and laugh at vehicles like the Hummer EV ... [continued]
When you apply that 60% most-usable window to a 130 kWh battery, you only have 78 kWh to work with. At 0.9 miles/kWh, your leg-to-leg towing range shrinks to exactly 70 miles. If you are driving 65 miles per hour, you are stopping to charge every 65 minutes.
That actually doesn’t sound very good, but I guess there’s a fuck load of charging stations in the US now?!?
This means that we spent more time driving than charging, often by a ratio of 3:1 (1.5 hours driving for a half hour charging)
That actually doesn’t sound very good, but I guess there’s a fuck load of charging stations in the US now?!?
Well, it works