MYTH-BUSTERS:
A: NEARLY NOBODY NEEDS TO BUY A CHARGER !
Range is about 250% of the US average daily drive*, which fully recharges in 4 hours, or fully recharges from DEAD, overnight, with the stock cord in any 240V outlet, like you'd need anyway for a faster charger. Click here for adapters as cheap as $8. You can also use an auto-switching splitter in a dryer outlet.
* For longer trips you can either just drive to the airport, or borrow or rent a longer-range &/or faster-charging car, with some of your fuel savings. I stole that idea from Fiat, who originally offered free rentals with 500e purchase.
B: MOST PEOPLE ONLY NEED A STANDARD WALL OUTLET, since it fully recharges a US-average daily drive overnight or at work. It adds 40 miles in just 8 hours of sleep OR work. 50 miles or more if you have dinner & breakfast at home.
C: A proper extension cord works. Click here for how to choose the right extension.
D: Range at steady 55mph is better than stop-&-go city traffic averaging 25mph.
There's NO brake regeneration below 7mph.
E: ONE-way hills kill range, but if you can make it to the top, TWO-WAY hills (up AND down) make very little difference as long as you don't have to brake below 7mph coming down.
F: Cold kills range even with heat off, but it really helps to pre-heat it while plugged in. Seat heaters use about one 10th as much power as cabin heat.
G: You can get cool ambient air inside without power-robbing A/C: Just tap any lit button in the left HVAC cluster (Auto, A/C, Recirculate, Off) until they're all off, including the Off light. Then set the temp to "LO" & you can crank the fan with far less power than A/C uses.
A: NEARLY NOBODY NEEDS TO BUY A CHARGER !
Range is about 250% of the US average daily drive*, which fully recharges in 4 hours, or fully recharges from DEAD, overnight, with the stock cord in any 240V outlet, like you'd need anyway for a faster charger. Click here for adapters as cheap as $8. You can also use an auto-switching splitter in a dryer outlet.
* For longer trips you can either just drive to the airport, or borrow or rent a longer-range &/or faster-charging car, with some of your fuel savings. I stole that idea from Fiat, who originally offered free rentals with 500e purchase.
B: MOST PEOPLE ONLY NEED A STANDARD WALL OUTLET, since it fully recharges a US-average daily drive overnight or at work. It adds 40 miles in just 8 hours of sleep OR work. 50 miles or more if you have dinner & breakfast at home.
C: A proper extension cord works. Click here for how to choose the right extension.
D: Range at steady 55mph is better than stop-&-go city traffic averaging 25mph.
There's NO brake regeneration below 7mph.
E: ONE-way hills kill range, but if you can make it to the top, TWO-WAY hills (up AND down) make very little difference as long as you don't have to brake below 7mph coming down.
F: Cold kills range even with heat off, but it really helps to pre-heat it while plugged in. Seat heaters use about one 10th as much power as cabin heat.
G: You can get cool ambient air inside without power-robbing A/C: Just tap any lit button in the left HVAC cluster (Auto, A/C, Recirculate, Off) until they're all off, including the Off light. Then set the temp to "LO" & you can crank the fan with far less power than A/C uses.
