Electrical car entrepreneurs take wheel to kick off ‘EV Week’: Roadshow

Q: Many thanks for the possibility to discuss electric powered motor vehicles.

John Mitchell, Castro Valley

A: Current columns on electric powered automobiles prompted dozens of responses from visitors who like electric autos, and other people who are worried about them.

Q: I’ve experienced 2 electric powered cars and trucks. I was the very first person in San Francisco to get a Honda In good shape EV. With an 80-mile selection, it was mainly a metropolis automobile, fantastic to go to Oakland and again to Santa Clara with a cost by plugging into a 110-volt outlet for an hour. I experienced it for 4.5 decades.

I have experienced a Tesla design S for 5.5 yrs. I acquired a single with a 245-mile array, but you can get them with virtually a 400 mile-assortment now. I’ve long gone round excursion both of those to Los Angeles and Tahoe and charged when I received a little something to try to eat. By the time I was accomplished feeding on, the motor vehicle was ready to go.

With the Tesla, if you enter your destination in the navigation process, it tells you where by to prevent to demand and for how extensive. I have in no way been anxious with selection.

Lauren Friedman, Daly Town

A: And…

Q: All of these people declaring no problems with selection are forgetting that in a lot of parts of the place, there are no public charging stations for hundreds of miles. For instance, there are none in the 132 miles amongst Good Falls, Montana, and Chinook, Montana, and none in the 484 miles on Freeway 2 involving Williston, North Dakota and Glacier Countrywide Park.

Jim Murdy, San Jose

A: Let us keep the battery charged and retain rolling…