Random EV thoughts.....

The problem I have is that, in addition to the three government credits, we got solar in September last year so I'd have to go back further but we only moved in here in may last year!

Very flawed test. Based on the GOM 🤣

They should have run the cars down until they drove no more. It is well known that Teslas in general have a significant range left when 0 range is indicated. It seems the testers are very inexperienced with EVs 😂

Personally I regularly do trips in the Tesla where the very accurate GOM indicates will arrive home at 0% or even minus 1% or minus 2%. I wouldn't dream doing this in any other EV I own or have owned, unless I was certain it could do it (most can't)

There's another test here which might be better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwOa7TCd1E&t=10s

Funny you mention that. The EV owners facebook group did a Dublin-Cork-Dublin race a few years back. Guess what car won it? The Hyundai Ioniq with just a tiny 28kWh battery. Goes to show battery size / range isn't all that relevant these days even for very long trips.

And the winner was our own @ELM327

I'd say you'd do a cross continent 3000km trip in a bog standard Tesla Model 3 €40k quicker than you'd do it in a €200k top spec Porsche Taycan

It would be helpful though if car manufacturers had to state range until empty at 21C at 120km/h GPS speed for comparison. WLTP is useless for when range really matters. In the WLTP cycle they reach 120km/h once, just for a few moments. A very bad indicator of motorway range.

Battery for fully charges 62v leaf seems to drop percentage quote sharply at first but then is much more efficient after the first 10 or so percent.

I'm still getting around 300km from it including around 100k motorway driving but wondered what the initial drop is about

Having never owned a Hyundai, would a 38kw Ioniq have much better range than a similar 40kw Leaf?

40 kWh leaf, 2018 onwards is prehistoric? You're giving the anti EV crowd plenty of ammunition with statements like that😁

I spoke to the buyer, who was a 1st time ev owner, and they said they were worried about buying an 'old or used' battery.

There is still a lack of knowledge about evs , their technology, the batteries etc out there among car owners, and many countless people would still be scared sh1tless to buy an ev, especially a used one.

Yea, a guy electrocuted in Germany last year in a drive through car wash. New legislation coming in there to restrict EVs to hand wash only.

It doesn't make much sense to buy a 1- 2 year old EV atm, because the prices are too high secondhand, I'm not worried about the battery. People bought at high prices and now the new car prices have decreased a lot, especially Teslas.

Another thing in the past few years is EV tech advancement is happening at lighting pace. It's much like how smartphones advanced a few years ago with every iteration but have now rather plateaud. Every year we're see EVs take rather big leaps, more tech, better efficiency, more refinement, more power, better software, more range, more choice, more competition entering the market.

The way I look at it is that buying a 2-3 old EV is like buying an old smartphone used smartphone, I wouldn't be happy with it. If I didn't have the ability to buy a new EV right now and my ICE car was running just fine I think I'd rather wait until I could afford to buy new so I could have the latest and greatest.

Yep we're adding another to the work fleet and the salespeople are hounding the guy to buy from them, following up relentlessly.

Just need a bit of a price drop and they'll sell.

The tech isn't changing much at all. The only thing different in the last few years is that more and more budget EVs are getting LiFePO4 batteries. This isn't anything new either but to be welcomed as the cells can do many more cycles and they are very safe, can not go on fire.