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I would filled up twice on a trip between Ottawa and Quebec City in a gasoline car in the winter. Never let your tank get below 50% in case of emergency, and there's no such thing as a "destination charger" for ICE's.


In the old days, they used to say that if you let your tank get too low in the winter, you could end up with moisture in the tank. It's probably been a while since that was actually true.

It seems that fewer and fewer people actually have any plan at all for emergencies.


> I would filled up twice on a trip between Ottawa and Quebec City in a gasoline car in the winter.

Why? A 275 mile drive should be easily done in any gas car without stopping.

Even my smallest tank car can do ~325 miles, my other cars can do ~425 and ~500 miles on one tank.


Mine can't even do 200.


I'm curious what car is it?

I started thinking maybe a sporty car (thus gas tank is not huge) with a huge engine (bad MPG) but couldn't find anything, even a Viper seems to get over 300 miles on the highway. Maybe some Ferrari with particularly bad MPG? Seems the worst is a 812GT, but that has a range of just under 300 miles. So I give up, what is it?




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