(07-14-2017 05:24 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  I drive between 40,000 & 50,000 miles a year mainly for WKU sports and trips to Ft Lauderdale or the the Gulf (PCB). The last the years we averaged 8 trips to Ft Lauderdale which is a 14 to 15 hour drive and 6 trips to the Gulf and thats a 9 hour drive. If a vehicle can't handle enough space for two weeks of travel and make that drive I will not be interested in it. I don't want to turn a one day drive, a long one, still one day...into 2.5 or 3 days. So unless a charge can take place with in minutes long trips will be out of the question.

Not to mention the time sitting in line waiting to charge up. Three to five minutes and you are full of gas and moving on.

But I sure would love to see more of you driving those plugged up cars....the lower gas prices get, I like.

With an 85 kw model s, you can get about 200 miles of charge in 20 minutes. Considerably worse than 3-5 minutes for a full up, but it would add hours to a very long trip, not days.

The next generation of chargers that Tesla and Volkwagen (and probably others) are working on are targeting 300 miles in less than 10 minutes. VW has stated theirs will do 6 minutes.

Whether it happens remains to be seen, but I think most people would have thought the current supercharger wouldn't be possible 10 years ago. Technology changes fast.