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Originally Posted by MartinSE
I think the point of electric today is what is most of the driving you do - do you drive 500 miles every day? Week? Month? What is your average trip? Doing a little looking the number varies - the average daily driving in the US is 35 miles per day.
Motor Trend did an excellent article comparing (even to the point of establishing average flow rate for the gas pumps vs charger rates for EVs) ICE vs EV and one section covers time to drive 1,000 miles.
To summarize:
ICE would take around 14.7 hours (16.5 for a BMW i3 because of its small tank requiring 12 stops.)
EV average over 52 available models is 15.3 hours for EV. The Mini Cooper SE taking 23.5 hours because of its very low top speed. .
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Who the hell needs to make 12 stops on a 1000 mile trip???
My wife and I drive from DC to TV in her Acura MDX, which is hardly a gas sipper (just over 850 miles) in one day and we make 3-4 stops...
We get just over 300 miles/tank. We leave with a full tank, fill up twice along the was (timing gas stops with BR and food breaks, plus one or two others, just in case) and arrive with about 1/4 tank...