We recently travelled over 1,400km on a long weekend road trip between Gauteng and Durban in Volvo’s EX30 electric car and had an incredibly comfortable experience overall, despite some charging niggles.
With a working charger roughly every 81km, a frequency similar to petrol stations, range anxiety was far from our minds.The trip down to Durban would happen over more than one day, as we chose to overnight halfway at a guest farm near Harrismith. At another GridCars charging station that we used both ways, the RFID scanner was not working, which meant our card could not unlock the charger.
The built-in Google Maps navigation, with GridCars live map integration, showed how much we needed to charge the car at each station to reach the next destination. We estimated that our time off the road for charging was around double to three times what it would have been when using a petrol or diesel car.For three of the six stops we made to charge the EX30, most of the time was spent eating sit-down meals. This time would likely have been the same when driving a petrol car.To kill time, we made quick runs to the bathroom and enjoyed coffee breaks while watching YouTube videos on the car’s display.
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