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Old 08-12-2023, 07:43 AM
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Man forced to ditch $115K Ford EV truck during family road trip to Chicago: ‘biggest scam of modern times’

Has anyone had any experience (good or bad) with an EV in a long road trip?

I have always been concerned about recharging. The fast chargers take 15-60 minutes so, if there were two cars ahead of you, it could take 3 hours to charge!
I call BS on most of this story. The range of the truck is almost 300 miles. The owner claimed he had to install a charger at home (That makes sense) but then had to install another charger at his work. How far does the guy commute every day? Then he claimed he had to update his fuse box.… For $6000!?! I don't think it cost me $6000 to do the electrical for my whole house. The rest of the issues like him getting into a fender bender have nothing to do with EV's. The guy seem to have no problem making it all the way from Winnipeg Manitoba down to Albertville Minnesota....a distance of 426 miles. Then he lets the vehicle get down to 12 miles of charge. How much sympathy would we let a person have who is driving and lets his vehicle get down to less than 1 gallon of gas in the tank? Again I call BS on most of the story.