A Colorado man learned the lesson of just how bad electric vehicles are for long-distance travel when he discovered that it took him 15 hellish hours to drive from Cheyenne to Casper, Wyoming.
At around 180 miles, this is a trip that only takes about three hours in a gas-powered vehicle. But because he was in an EV, the trip took five times more time to make the distance.
EV owner Alan O’Hashi lives in Colorado today, but he used to live in Wyoming, and he makes frequent trips back to the Cowboy State. And while his EV is fine for making short hops around town at home, he found out that using the vehicle to make a long drive in wide-open Wyoming was not a very good idea, Cowboy State Daily reported.
O’Hashi learned that using his EV for a long trip was most definitely a different game.
“It was very difficult, O’Hashi told Cowboy State Daily. “For example, (it took) 15 hours to get from Cheyenne to Casper.”