...to have a fully charged car ready to go every morning? 😊👍🏽

 

Indeed, plus instant cabin heat and instant throttle response and more performance than 99% of the cars on the road!

Owning an EV is a sea change, for sure.

 

The joy of a full tank every morning outweighs range anxiety.

More so if your power comes from your roof, or from time-of-use billing. More so during blizzards.

Less so for the rare owner who must regularly find and connect to third-party charging stations.

All N/A to apartment dwellers.

 

Most apartment or condos in my neck of the woods have dedicated EV charging slots.

 

Especially in Pandemic times, not having to go to a gas station while at the same time being able to drive through empty streets enthusiastically on daily basis is something.. unique to say the least

 

That's pretty good. Where is that? I literally live in the woods, but I'll have to check some apartments/condos next time I go to the nearest city. I expect that nearly all Taycan owners will have garages, but the emergence of EVs with TCO's similar to ICE cars is already taxing charging stations in SoCal, according to what I read about Tesla Superchargers.

 

The apartment/condo problem can be difficult to be sure. Some years ago, my mother was looking into buying a Model S. The condo management was actually ok with her hiring an electrician to install a 240V receptacle near her assigned parking spot - at her expense. But it would have involved running a couple hundred feet of conduit across the roof of the parking garage, and cost several thousand dollars. She opted for a new Lexus instead.

The good news for the EV market here in the U.S., is that there are 80+ million single family homes and only a million or so EVs currently on the road. So the market can expand quite a bit before the apartment/condo problem truly needs to be resolved. In some states, such as California, laws have been passed to require apartment owners and condo associations to allow EV owners to install charging equipment. Also, again in California, Title 24 requires new construction to provide some level of wiring for EV charging in garage areas. Other states could easily follow suit. (https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/greenbuild...f/tcac2018.pdf)

 

I am jealous of my wife’s Tesla. I’ve been burning through hand wipes, which are irreplaceable, with wild abandon at the pump.