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Marco Arment

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6218 total appearances

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Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

And I remember it having like a... I don't know, like a brownish background or something. I don't know. I cannot find it for the life of me.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

And I remember it having like a... I don't know, like a brownish background or something. I don't know. I cannot find it for the life of me.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

Yeah. Anyway, but as some minor follow-up to your EV-ness, I did want to tell you that I did just take... All this... My 12 days of travel here was... Probably a combination of 500 miles, maybe 600 miles. And I actually never had to use a fast charger once because at my in-laws place, they have like a circular saw 220 volt outlet in their barn. And so whenever I'm there, I just plug into that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

Yeah. Anyway, but as some minor follow-up to your EV-ness, I did want to tell you that I did just take... All this... My 12 days of travel here was... Probably a combination of 500 miles, maybe 600 miles. And I actually never had to use a fast charger once because at my in-laws place, they have like a circular saw 220 volt outlet in their barn. And so whenever I'm there, I just plug into that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

It's about I can get about 30 amps out of it. So I just plug into that and my car is full overnight and that's it. So I charged up at my house, I went up there, I charged there, drove around a lot, and then drove home, and I got home with like, you know, 20% or so. Nice. Just to give you some idea of like, you know, all of your range anxiety, what I'm trying to do is...

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

It's about I can get about 30 amps out of it. So I just plug into that and my car is full overnight and that's it. So I charged up at my house, I went up there, I charged there, drove around a lot, and then drove home, and I got home with like, you know, 20% or so. Nice. Just to give you some idea of like, you know, all of your range anxiety, what I'm trying to do is...

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

I mean, look, nothing's going to cure your range anxiety about a full battery EV until you actually own one. But what I'm trying to do is kind of just give you, you know, examples of like how much you don't really need to think about it as much as you think you will.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

I mean, look, nothing's going to cure your range anxiety about a full battery EV until you actually own one. But what I'm trying to do is kind of just give you, you know, examples of like how much you don't really need to think about it as much as you think you will.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

And even like I am the kind of person that I don't โ€“ you kind of have to define like what's the lowest percentage charge I'm comfortable with getting it down to before I need to plug in or want to be at a place where I can plug in. And for different people, this is different. Like, I'm the kind of person where, like, I don't even let my phone battery ever go all the way to zero.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

And even like I am the kind of person that I don't โ€“ you kind of have to define like what's the lowest percentage charge I'm comfortable with getting it down to before I need to plug in or want to be at a place where I can plug in. And for different people, this is different. Like, I'm the kind of person where, like, I don't even let my phone battery ever go all the way to zero.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

I have, like, when people say, like, my phone died, that kind of irritates me. That's like saying my kid starved. It's like, that implies some, you know, some, like, nothing. This action just happened. It's like, well, you didn't charge it and you used it down to zero. Anyway. I'm a person who โ€“ my phone has never died. I literally have never drained a phone battery to zero because I manage it.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

I have, like, when people say, like, my phone died, that kind of irritates me. That's like saying my kid starved. It's like, that implies some, you know, some, like, nothing. This action just happened. It's like, well, you didn't charge it and you used it down to zero. Anyway. I'm a person who โ€“ my phone has never died. I literally have never drained a phone battery to zero because I manage it.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

If it's getting down low, I'll stop using the phone or I'll put it in obviously low power mode or if I'm really desperate, like airplane mode. But I don't think I've ever โ€“ outside of like a hike, I don't think I've ever had to do that, like a week-long hike I'm saying where my phone still didn't reach zero.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

If it's getting down low, I'll stop using the phone or I'll put it in obviously low power mode or if I'm really desperate, like airplane mode. But I don't think I've ever โ€“ outside of like a hike, I don't think I've ever had to do that, like a week-long hike I'm saying where my phone still didn't reach zero.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

Anyway, so the point is โ€“ so with the car, I'm willing to get it down to 15% if I'm arriving somewhere that I know I can definitely charge like a known fast charger or my house or my in-law's house. I'm willing to let it go that low. And if you are willing to let it go that low, you can get a lot of places because the thing is like even after โ€“ suppose you get it down to 15%.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

Anyway, so the point is โ€“ so with the car, I'm willing to get it down to 15% if I'm arriving somewhere that I know I can definitely charge like a known fast charger or my house or my in-law's house. I'm willing to let it go that low. And if you are willing to let it go that low, you can get a lot of places because the thing is like even after โ€“ suppose you get it down to 15%.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

Well, if your car has like 300 miles of range โ€“ that's still plenty of rings that you could use to drive to the next charger. If you really had to like the next one, you know, the next closest one. Um, so the reality of owning an EV is you think it's going to be so much worse and you think you have to like plan every single bit.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

Well, if your car has like 300 miles of range โ€“ that's still plenty of rings that you could use to drive to the next charger. If you really had to like the next one, you know, the next closest one. Um, so the reality of owning an EV is you think it's going to be so much worse and you think you have to like plan every single bit.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

And really the margin of error is pretty big and, and the capacities you have are pretty big and this is, and it's getting better all the time as more stations open up. So like you, Even if you pull up to a charger and it's broken or full or whatever, you can probably just go to the next one with the range you have left.

Accidental Tech Podcast
620: Mostly Cookies

And really the margin of error is pretty big and, and the capacities you have are pretty big and this is, and it's getting better all the time as more stations open up. So like you, Even if you pull up to a charger and it's broken or full or whatever, you can probably just go to the next one with the range you have left.