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I've been looking at some routes on Plugshare, and it seems like one of the challenges with long distance travel right now is the chargers are spaced pretty far apart. That means a lot of times you have to stop sooner than you'd like, because it's too risky to push it. A lot of places the chargers are 30 miles apart, which could cause you to stop early even if you theoretically have as much as 40-45 miles remaining (depending how safe you want to play it). If the chargers were spaced every 5-10 miles you could safely drive until the battery was almost depleted, and then you could charge from the lowest SOC possible.It's actually even worse with shorter range EVs because with a ~100 mile range you may be forced to stop with a significant amount of charge remaining because you're not sure you can make the next leg (or you really cannot).
I've been looking at some routes on Plugshare, and it seems like one of the challenges with long distance travel right now is the chargers are spaced pretty far apart. That means a lot of times you have to stop sooner than you'd like, because it's too risky to push it. A lot of places the chargers are 30 miles apart, which could cause you to stop early even if you theoretically have as much as 40-45 miles remaining (depending how safe you want to play it). If the chargers were spaced every 5-10 miles you could safely drive until the battery was almost depleted, and then you could charge from the lowest SOC possible.
It's actually even worse with shorter range EVs because with a ~100 mile range you may be forced to stop with a significant amount of charge remaining because you're not sure you can make the next leg (or you really cannot).
