Author Archives: OlderNotWiser

As I said last time, my anxiety is rarely the range, but almost certainly my confidence in the charging infrastructure. This weekend I repeated the 90mile journey is zero degrees weather and was needing to make it a return trip. I got there with 30% to spare, but I needed to charge for the returnContinue reading “To revisit Range Anxiety”

One of the biggest topics covered by EV forums is that of range. The idea that it’s not possible to accurately predict how far something can travel given a fixed amount of fuel seems to bother way too many people, despite the fact that it has always been that way regardless of the fuel type.Continue reading “Range Anxiety”

I had done a reasonable amount of research to know that charging using public chargers was something that was definitely going to be part of the new experience, but could also have the capacity to be something of a challenge at times. But…there was much to learn. I knew my car had a regular Type-2Continue reading “That first (public) charge.”

Full disclosure…I’m writing this about a month after taking delivery of the car. I had thought to start writing earlier, but also thought no one would be interested. Over the past week I have had so many similar conversations about the car (some with total strangers), that I thought I’d just have somewhere to recordContinue reading “First Impressions”