Approximately 130 miles each way, 260 miles total vs. my Mach e range of 280 miles.
I worried about this to-fro trip for weeks on end, assuring myself it could be done with a short charge in Santa Barbara before returning home.

Bottom line—We made it with 36 miles left on my screen.

The short charge at a Charge Point station added about 26 miles during our one-hour and 17-minute dinner break. That is a charge rate of 20 miles per hour—the charging station is obviously not a rapid charger.

I fretted before making the trip. Will my Mach e make it on a full charge? Where are the chargers on State Street? What if we can’t make it home? Etc., etc. The charger location map in Santa Barbara showed a station about a mile from my destination. A query to our host, and she said there was one across the street-why didn’t the map on my phone show it?

That’s what you do with an all-electric car. Fret about how much charge you have and how much you need to go anywhere and where to charge.

I routinely charge at home when my screen says 100 miles to go. That way, in an emergency, I could drive somewhere. I forgot to charge once when below 100 miles and scraped by on a local trip. Rarely do I go below 50 miles, and on this trip, I was at 36 when I returned home.

The Santa Barbara trip was the first time I charged at a public charger. Since I have 500 kWh credit, I thought I could use the Ford system through Electrify America. A month later, I don’t see that I used the credit, and I have not been charged (26 miles is about 8 kWh @ 40 cents per kWh would be $3.20.

Now I charge a couple of times a week on a public charger at California State University Fullerton. Charging is free for students, so I get 40 to 60 miles while I am in class. This is summer, though, with no students on campus—in the fall, there will be a waiting line—I probably will forgo charging there—I don’t like to wait.

Another bottom line—EVs don’t make sense beyond trips around town and are certainly not worth the added thousands of dollars to the cost of a car.

Another bottom line—EVs create a major footprint on our “dying” earth.

And a final bottom line—EVs are a scam and won’t save the world from climate change.

if EVs were more efficient and saved us money, as enviros and politicians claim, consumers wouldn’t have to be compelled into using them and companies wouldn’t have to be bribed into producing them. Source Epoch Times July 16, 2023