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EX500rider

(10,874 posts)
1. If he means soon then, no...if he means eventually then yes.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 04:13 PM
Oct 2019

The U.S. market share of plug-in electric passenger cars increased from 0.14% in 2011 to 0.62% in 2013; reached 0.75% in 2014 and fell to 0.66% in 2015. Then climbed to 0.90% in 2016, to 1.13% in 2017, and achieved a record market share of 2.1% in 2018.

 

Baclava

(12,047 posts)
4. It's great, till they shut off your power!
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:32 PM
Oct 2019
California wildfires, 'Massive new power outages expected across California'

Electric-Car Owners Hard Hit by Massive California Power Shutdown

California’s power outage means problems for electric cars. Tesla says charge up, quick.

Voltaire2

(13,200 posts)
6. actually going from 0.14 to 2.1 in 7 years is fairly significant growth.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:36 PM
Oct 2019

Tesla M3 is fueling that growth right now, and as tesla opens up new production facilities and adjusts prices accordingly, their world market share is going to increase its growth rate. As that happens the legacy ICE manufacturers are going to have to seriously compete. I give it 20 years max, and likely much sooner, before commodity ice vehicles will be a thing of the past.

EX500rider

(10,874 posts)
5. So I want to haul my motorcycle up to "Tail of the Dragon" in NC from Fla...EV ain't doing that..
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:34 PM
Oct 2019

...in the time I will have. (can you even haul a trailer with one any distance?)

ffr

(22,672 posts)
8. Yes, like with any vehicle.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:47 PM
Oct 2019

For the itinerary, just plug in where you want to go and the car will figure it out. It does all the planning and tells you where to go and for how long you'll need to charge on Tesla's Supercharging network.

Teslas can charge off anything from a electric dryer outlet, a garage NEMA-1450, an RV park electrical hookup or Tesla Supercharger. That would be charging at 30A, 50A, 40 - 50A, or 500A.

EX500rider

(10,874 posts)
9. yeah but it take a few minutes to gas up my car and get back on the road..
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:49 PM
Oct 2019

..I have limited vacation time. And what kind of range would you get hauling a trailer with a motorcycle on it? Not much i am guessing. Do they even sell hitches for pure EV's?

ffr

(22,672 posts)
11. Not usually, except for drag races.
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 01:51 AM
Oct 2019

Range with an open motorcycle trailer, for me would probably be about 200 miles, unless you're talking about a 4,000 lbs twin axle toy hauler to tote your EX500 with. Then you might need to step up to a Tesla Model X

vimeo.com/253258542

We've done the drives with my car where we bomb it with minimal stops and now we have an EV where I'm presented with stops and having to break up a 900 mile drive into an overnight somewhere. The charges are free and I take a lot more enjoyment from the entire trip, all of it. Look forward to every mile of it, just to drive this awesome EV.

At charging stops I take short walks, get a quick bite to eat along the way, take pictures, shop, catch up on E-mail, and when we arrive, we arrive fresh and in style. Yeah, where we go, kinda off the main highways more and more, we get people taking pictures of the car, like it's a novelty. I personally don't like the attention, except for the 'can't be,' reactions. Those are fun.

The reactions never get old. When they ask where you came from, their mouth tends to drop when you tell them your last supercharge was in another state, the next supercharger is 100 miles away and all you have to charge on is a little RV hookup. Never a worry, the car figures it out.

We're meeting a lot of interesting people all across America, simply because we have a car that's different and it's changed us.
I was like you just two years ago, driving my ICE everywhere and letting the EV collect dust. Now my ICE car is the one collecting dust, battery nearly dead from sitting in my garage until it snows, because I don't enjoy driving it. I'd rather scratch up my ICE vehicle in foul weather.

Initech

(100,107 posts)
3. It's way past time to give the fossil fuel industry the heave ho.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 04:20 PM
Oct 2019

I definitely support hybrids and full electric vehicles!

MichMan

(11,988 posts)
10. You are right, data sure does help
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:19 PM
Oct 2019

Ford (3rd quarter)

Edge 36,660
Escape 60,701
Expedition 18,586
Explorer 31,546
F Series 214,176
Ranger 26,211
Mustang 16,823
Fusion 37,557
Transit 43,876

Trucks and SUV = 431,756 vehicles

Chevrolet (3rd quarter)

Bolt 4,830
Camaro 14,438
Colorado 31,657
Equinox 79,799
Silverado 155,482
Malibu 32,432
Suburban 12,391
Tahoe 26,308
Traverse 41,116
Trax 37,407
Volt 874

Trucks and SUV = 384,160

GMC, Buick, Cadillac were not included in the above totals for GM. Dodge and Jeep would be similar

http://fordauthority.com/2019/10/ford-motor-company-sales-numbers-figures-results-third-quarter-2019-q3/

http://gmauthority.com/blog/2019/10/gm-third-quarter-2019-sales-figures-numbers-results-united-states-q3/

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