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Originally Posted by tvmurray
My wife and I went to Vermont to enjoy the colors and cooler weather.
When we arrived the car rental company said they only had a Chevy Bolt EV. I tried to see if they had anything else and the answer was no.
We took off and when we crossed into Vermont we stopped at the welcome center and asked about charging stations and the guy laughed at us. He said he only had a list of 14 stations in the state.
We spent the the next day trying to go from charger to charger. 195 Mike range and over an hour to get to 80% charge. We lost two days watching the power display and could not focus on the scenery.
On day two we made it to Montpelier which was supposed to have 3 stations. 1st didn't work, second had unattended vehicle plugged in, and third was destroyed like someone took a hammer to it.
35 miles of charge left and 40 miles to nearest airport we took off, turned of radio and heater and pulled into car rental with 1 mile left.
Totally screwed 2 full days of vacation time. Don't fall for this EV crap. They are a joke and wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.
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They are most certainly NOT a joke. Electric vehicles are
the ideal SECOND vehicle used just for shorter commutes & errands AND if you own your own home, so you can just plug it in at night. They are a terrible choice for a vehicle to be used for vacations, sightseeing trips and long commutes due to the lack of reliable charging infrastructure. Anyone who pays attention to the EV trends knows this.
I remember in the late 1950's when we would go on family vacations up into Ontario and we carried cans of gasoline with us because no stations were open at night. The EV charger infrastructure will improve just as now there are 24/7 gas stations everywhere and no one has to carry extra gas with them. You should have refused the EV rental and gone elsewhere. The Chevy Bolt has one of the worst distant ranges of almost any other EV. Many other EV's have twice the range of the BOLT. A great many car dealers will rent you a vehicle if no dedicated rental business has one for you.
You cannot make a blanket statement that all EV's are a joke & are crap. You made the mistake of renting the EV with the shortest range & used it for a purpose that it was not designed to do.