Sure, if you wanted you can buy a BEV that will drive 372 miles without stopping for a charge. But so what? 372 miles is over 5 hours driving. If you are driving for a safe, sane and legal duration then you will be stopping before most decent modern BEVs need a charge.

It is 2026, range is no longer an issue for the vast majority of BEVs. Stop wasting everyones time trying to argue like it is still a big issue.

Put it on a wall. I would suggest near where you normally park to save walking too far. It sounds like you have not seen what a modern Level 2 charger looks like, they are small and tidy.

I have only had my BEV 6 years, so I have only had to replace the 12V battery, I got it the same day. Checked online at local parts supplier, stuff is in stock. To get parts for it should take the same time as getting parts for any car, so yes, in you case expect the part in two days.

I will ask again. Honestly why do you think getting parts for a BEV would be any different from getting parts for an ICEV? They are both cars and selling car parts is an extremely profitable business so why would companies not sell BEV parts? You are stating all you questions as if BEVs something rare and unusual.

Yea, the arguments I am getting these days are getting increasingly absurd now that much of the traditional FUD has lost its effectiveness in the face of the average person now having at some real world experience of BEVs.

Elsewhere in this discussion I have someone seriously arguing that ICEVs are better than BEVs because getting parts can be done instantly for any ICEV and it is impossible to source parts for a BEV. However his examples are all about getting parts for an old car vs a new car, probably because most BEVs are pretty new. He clearly has not had to try and source parts for new ICEV before. If you look at the forums for old BEVs, like the Leaf, people are sourcing parts just the same way they do for any old car.

The only good news is the hydrogen will beat BEVs poster have finally given up in the face of reality, so maybe the BEV deniers will give up soon too as the reality is getting harder for them to ignore.

Well you be you. I find in life making even a token 5 minute effort in planing any significant activity, such is a road trip, is worth the effort. I guess you also head to airport to catch flights without checking the flight status? Or maybe you like to go boating without checking the marine forecast?

I don't understand your point? How is a Model Y any different from a F150? If you want parts for a 2025 Model Y you are probably going to have trouble finding much at junkyard in the same way you will have trouble finding parts for a 2025 F150. The Model Y came out only 6 years ago so the only one in a junkyard will be from an accident. Now if I wanted parts for 2011 Nissan Leaf there are plenty to be found, it is just as easy as finding parts for 2011 Corolla. You do know that only difference between the EOL of a BEV and an ICEV is the BEV will be on the road for a few more years before facing the same fate as an ICEV? I honestly can't understand why you think there is any difference between and ICEV and BEV when it comes to sourcing parts?

What? Does the local authorized shop have the parts in stock for every ICEV (I doubt that everything for ICEVs is universal, and any of those parts (used) aren't gonna be worth any trusting from a junkyard)?

Correct, here every part for an ICEV and BEV comes the same way. The local importer for each brand chooses what they hold in stock in the country and what is imported. Again this is not an ICEV vs BEV thing, it is an automotive industry thing. You are acting as if BEV parts and ICEV parts are treated differently, they are not. Parts are a profit center for suppliers, they are not interested in your view of the merits of old tech vs new tech, they have no political agendas, they are simply interested in suppling market demands to make a profit.

So yes I can do 'that' with a BEV.

This is not a BEV issue, it is an industry issue that has existed since about the 1980. Regular ODBII works fine on a Tesla. On the public facing port it tells you what is legally required, which is almost nothing. However with an adaptor added to part of the vehicle loom easily accessible by the center console you can get all the info you need.

I assume that is sarcasm as it apply more so to ICEVs which have way more parts in them to source when they fail. Here's a clue for you, getting parts for an BEV is the same process getting parts for an ICEV, it just there is less of them needed as there is less of them to fail.

Yes, the maths look quite different in different countries. Here in New Zealand electricity is quite a lot cheaper than the UK and nearly all from green sources whereas our gas prices are really high. So the running cost number stack up heavily in favor of owning a BEV. As an added bonus new BEVs reached price parity with ICEVs last year for the most popular market segment, and that is with zero EV subsidies here.

Talk to the dealer, I suspect some would fine with arranging the install and will even add it the cost of any financing you do to buy the car. However you will probably save a lot of money if you arrange it yourself. It cost me about $200 to have the level 2 charger that came with my car wired in by a certified electrician. That is way cheaper than most installs but the point is it doesn't always have to be a major hassle or expense, do some basic research before buying your first BEV.

You live the USA, sorry to hear that, good luck. Then again I'm guessing you are one of many there who voted for the self destruction of your once proud country.

You unplug it and go where you need to go. If you plug every day after an average commute most BEVs will have a range in the triple digits when they get home. Unless they delay charging to get a cheaper rate, or are using Level 1 charging most people will already have their car fully charged within an hour or two of getting home.

You are going to need a more complicated and convoluted hypothetical to make your point.

Road trips are not the big drama people like to make out. You just have to do a bit of planing, like a few minutes planning. Brought a cheap shorter range EV, you are going to have allow more stops, that's the trade off with using a commuter vehicle as a touring vehicle. Brought an average range EV, you will only will only notice a minor difference in travel time. Brought a higher end model, you may get there faster than you expect. I recently did a 600km trip with two planned short stops, but as I had done a couple other things on the first stop I spent about 5 mins longer charging than planned and as I resumed the trip the car said I didn't need the second stop. That trip took no longer that it would have in my old ICEV.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people who have never owned a BEV tell me that it is impossible to do things that I regularly do and tell me how much I will regret it, yet after 6 years of driving a BEV I have never regretted the choice I made.

The ones who are having a depressing life here are petrol car owners who have seen petrol prices increase 34% and diesel prices increase 88% since Operation Epstein Fury started.

FUD much? 2015 called, they want their talking points back. Seriously what planet are you living on? Worse case throw an extension lead out the window of your house and charge from a L1 charger. That will cover normal commuting for most people. Not possible? Get familiar with local public charging, there will be more of it than you realise because it doesn't stand out.

Replace batteries? Give me a break, BEVs have been around long enough to know it is not an issue with modern BEVs. Yea, the older Nissan Leaf has problems but even those are manageable as more options for dealing with them are appearing.

No small shop will work on them? What an insult to those people! Small shops have had to adjust to automotive tech changes for many decades now and while they may behind the curve they adapt. BEVs are so much simpler that when they get used to the proper way to work around high voltages and batteries etc they do just fine. They may not be too common yet but it is no longer hard to find places with EV experience.

You don't have to use a NAS of course, any decent Linux server will do the job. The services you need are:

- A dhcp server so the RPi get an IP address and the info it needs for the PXE. This was the tricky one to get right, with option-128 and option-129 being needed.
- A dns server, you might be able to get away without this one.
- A tftp server to serve up the first Linux boot stage. It effectively has the contents of the SD card /boot or /boot/firmware directory with the cmdline.txt file modified. Watch the vers= value to match you nfs server version.
- A nfs server to serve up the root filesystem. It is effectively the contents of the whole SD card with the /etc/fstab modified.

There is more to it than that but with the warnings above most online guides will get you a working solution. It is nice to get rid of micro-SD cards and their related failures. Also software updates can be done remotely when using POE. Tell the switch to cut power the RPi, change file sets in use on the tftp and nfs server then power the POE back on to boot a new OS without having to got to RPi. With the SDR ones located in the attic that is a real bonus.