Getting out of electric

VW ID4, the big battery versions

I think there's a few Skoda Enyaq's there also

Pedal to the metal on the motorway would do it I suppose. But that car has one of the best charge curves around. Stays above 100kW to 75% SoC, so adding on another 150km would take maybe 15-20 minutes?

Did they have a young family? Didn't notice that bit…

The charge times seem weird as well. As I said, one of the best charge curves in the business with 10-80% taking 27 minutes. I suspect they may be charging up to 100% when stopping and that's when the charge curve falls off a cliff.

I’m not an ev hater at all. The mood music was to buy an ev or nothing, be it from government, decisions from manufacturers that they were going ev only or what not. BMW, Ford, etc we’re all making big announcements about the future being ev only.

Where can you get extended warranty on an Audi Q7 ?? Audi Ireland only offer it bundled in with the sale of a “approved used plus” or whatever they call it from a dealer.

Can you post further details of who is providing this warranty please ? If it’s just the usual crap from Mapfre or CarProtect, don’t bother.

The story makes no sense. Why stop for an hour in a car that doesn't need to stop. Why would Dublin Staff going to a Dublin office need to be on a charger. Why would a company not prioritize those travelling long distance. Why not stop on a high speed DC charger for a top up, rather than sitting for hours on a 7kw charger.

These stories (and I see similar posted all over) seem to be created by people who think EV's charge 0-100%. That they have no range, and it takes hours to charge at a DC charger.

That said if I was doing "non stop" round trips journeys of 5-600km+ on a regular basis I'd just buy a diesel with 1000km range.

it has always been the case a nicely specified bread and butter made more “sense” than a premium marque.

agree. It doesnt make any sense at all. They’d need a much shorter stop if any.

The original point suggested that there was 30 to 45 mins charging involved.

Thus suggesting that DC charging was involved.

Where it gets tricky is understanding the process involved.

When are the drivers charging, are they having range anxiety.

Are they pulling in to charge at 50 percent and charging to 100 percent.

Would be interesting to replicate the journey pattern to understand the issue fully.

Edit

Infrastructure has an impact here - in Norway Bjorn Neyland is doing 625 miles with average speeds of 60 mph INCLUDING charging time.

In MEB platform cars.

That speed would go up if you were doing a 320 mile challenge.

However Norwegian infrastructure allows Bjorn go for the shortest possible stops making best use of charging curve on the car.

I remember when one of the Model 3s did the 1000 km challenge in 9 hrs 20 one time.

He was doing 12 min charge stops and finishing up at 50 percent because that was faster then doing 10 to 80 percent in 30 mins or whatever.

As an aside.

Someone getting out of EV captures much more attention.

Then someone whose had an EV and is changing it for another EV. The latter isn't even noticed.

They are not charging to 100% in 30-45 mins.

If they were stopping for 30 mins then they definitely didn't need a 7kw in Dublin.

Bjorn has nothing to do with this. His is an artificial test, interesting, but no one is going down to 1% with a portable battery pack like he is. He's also testing battery cooling or heating. So he's pushing the absolute limits.

Listen I get it. Hammering to Dublin for an early meeting or getting out ahead of the traffic going home. They don't want to stop even for 5 mins. They also don't want to have to think about it.