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My Family & Friends Go Electric

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My Family & Friends Go Electric

This is our latest family member EV. It’s my third daughter’s used 2023 Hyundai IONIQ 5 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

It’s been a progression: It started with a couple of family pioneers (my brother and me) first dipping a toe in the water in 2014–2015 with early short-range, small-battery EVs. Back then, even the trip to the airport 40 miles away required a charging stop at the Nissan dealer in downtown Salt Lake City. Then the family’s first major EV adopters bought long-range Teslas. My brother immediately began regular cross-country trips with his 65 kWh battery Tesla Model S. He was a true pioneer and had to plan his trips carefully. My daughter would mainly do local trips in her Tesla Model X, but was not afraid to do the 300-mile north–south run from Salt Lake City to her vacation home in Saint George in Southern Utah. Finally, many family members and friends have upgraded or joined the conversion wave over a period of 12 years. Once I had my long-range, dual-motor 2019 Tesla Model 3, my wife and I drove our annual cross-country trips from Utah to Northern Wisconsin and back in our EV. Now, two of the three drivers in my family have gone electric and three of my four children are now driving electric.

Our trailblazing example, explanations, and influence have also inspired several of our friends to go electric . We don’t try to twist arms to get people to make the change. We don’t suggest people run out and buy an EV today.


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