Just driving inland on the eastern side of Australia.The towns are in the range 100km to 150km apart. With the example 30 minutes for 300km range trying to drive that 300km would have the car flat between towns.That is why I said breaks would have to be changed. When I head south 230km would get me to a town with the next town a further 130km. Do the 30 minute charge then the next town to stop at is again 230km as 300km would not get to the next town after that. With the next charge a possible 110km down the road because after that are small towns where petrol stations and motel have been closing and some places are not much more than a pub, a church, grain silo and a couple of houses. Then one more stop after that for charging.

With the initial charge you mentioned and planing for the 30 minute stops it would be doable with stops needing to be more planned than "i want a break lets stop here".

Once down to wanting the 30 min for 300km charges would be stopping in as little as 230km to charge. Starting with a full charge would stop to charge 3 times. Starting with a 30 minute charge would stop to charge 4 times. Making it a 2 day trip instead of 1 day would save 1 charge later in the trip at the cost of a motel room for the night.

It was a round trip of 28km to the local shop for the bottle of vegemite I got the other day. For those trips an electric car with a range of a few hundred km would not think twice.

From some of the comments with the article what I am thinking is some electric vehicle owners are slow to say how long it takes to charge their car. Not that ev drivers don't know the difference. As we eventually would like an electric vehicle people saying how long a charge and real world range would be are nice things to know.

I am aware a person is supposed to take a break. That 13 hours includes rest and meal breaks so a single driver can have enough of a rest to do the trip. With multiple people to drive would drop that to 11 hours or less.

One trip we do the figures you gave would lengthen the time of the trip. The 500km range you mention would get us to our destination with no where to charge which would require a rethink of how the trip is done. The 1,000km each way trip I am doing these days would certainly require a rethink of where we stop. Without some care the 30 minute charge for 300km range would have the car flat between towns. If that is actual and not marketing it us useful information. Would mean stopping at towns we normally ignore. Like petrol consumption figures I would like to know what people are getting and not what the brochures says which seem to have a habit of not matching reality.

If I wanted to believe the manufacture fuel figures I would get 950km from a tank. This particular vehicle it is more like 800km for full to empty. I don't think we have ever had a vehicle where real world fuel consumption matched what the manufacturer said which leaves me jaded and curious what people actually get.

Depends what you are doing. If you are driving around the city then then plug it in for the night. At the moment I am regularly doing 2,000km trips. Having rest and meal breaks it is taking 13 hours each way. If trying to use an electric vehicle for that then any long charge times is sitting around and doing nothing while you wait for the car to charge.

How far was the trip and how long did you have to wait for the car to charge. With petrol or diesel I do 1,000km in 13 hours. Nearly all of my driving at the moment is such trips. How long would it take including charging time with the electric vehicle?

That option is only for wifi. There is no option to set ethernet as unmetered and the ms faq explicitly says ethernet can not be set unmetered. I found the same using usb tether which I use in preference to wifi hot spot. Both win 8.1 and 10 will happily set a wifi hot spot on a metered mobile phone connection as unmetered.

Unfortunately I am inclined to agree with this. Like the post you are responding to I try to ignore the ads and block a lot when I can. I still find sometimes when I want something and think of a brand to later realise it is a brand I saw from advertising. Same with product placement in stores.