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Dave - Phoenix (not verified)    July 13, 2012 - 6:04PM

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"IF" you find a suitable location to charge along your route that can deliver that level of charging.

Even if you find that charge location, waiting 1 hour to charge is still an issue. on long trips, for every 3 hours of driving, you must spend 1 hour charging.

......and that is "only" in the very high priced Tesla that this is possible. None of the other BEV's on the market can currently charge in that time.

Any way you slice it..... it takes 50KWH of electricity to go 200 miles and it takes a lot of time, effort and equipment to put 50 KWH of electricity back into the battery...

This does not mean I don't like EV's. I love them. They are capable of meeting 90% of my driving needs even with today's limitations......

.........But I am aware that long charge time is, and will continue to be, a limitation for EV's for quite some time. The Chevy Volt is specifically designed to overcome this limitation.

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