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I honestly did not know these stories still existed. We used to see these stories day in / day out ten years ago, but I thought we well past this stage of EV development. Wow.
From InsideEVs, August 2, 2025:
As noted, it would be unusual for any current gasoline-powered / diesel-powered vehicle on the road today that could not make the trip from Minneapolis, MN, to Chicago, IL, on a single "tank of gas."
But this driver, even before she started out, knew she would have to make several stops in her EV to go that distance.
She needed to charge five separate times on her journey.
After her first stop out of Minneapolis, she still had three more re-charging stops before she reached her destination.
When she began her fully-charged journey in Minneapolis, her infotainment screen indicated that she had one hour and eight minutes of range, before she needed to stop for her first re-charging once on the road.
Are you kidding me?
But this is what's amazing.
On social media at this "green site," no one was concerned about the 800-lb gorilla in the room (lack of range even on a full charge) but wrote into give advice on how to accomplish the trip with fewer recharging stops.
Okay, so that's exactly how I want to lead my life. Every time I get into my EV with a destination more than a hundred miles away, I need to "crowdsource" advice on how best to make that trip.
LOL.
And that's why EVs are not for me, and that's why it's going to be a long time before "real" EVs become the car of the people.
Having said that, folks love "fake EVs." That's because with their gasoline engines there's no range anxiety and one can get from Minneapolis to Chicago on a single tank of gas.
I would expect to see this story in a marketing brochure for gasoline-powered muscle cars, not in a "green / EV" media outlet. But this was a feature story in InsideEVs.
My hunch: Ms Erika McEntarfer will fine a welcoming home at InsideEVs where she can make up the numbers as she goes along.
The author of the article, his profile is here.
