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Post by WDB on Jun 27, 2024 10:23:37 GMT
Take away the Telegraph editorial and the disinformation funded by the oil companies (if those are two separate categories) and there are some serious points there. But I think there are counters to all of them.
Let’s start with Gordon Brown, whose name comes up every time in rightwing material when diesel is mentioned, as if he had some global wizardy power over Europe’s car makers and oil companies. He happened to be chancellor when I first chose a diesel car in 2002, and the percentage BIK tax I paid on it was calculated from its nominal CO2 output plus a three-point uplift because it was a diesel. There was always a recognition that diesel engines could cause local pollution problems, hence the successive tightening of regulations on it. But it wasn’t Gordon Brown that made diesel ubiquitous; it was the recognition that more thermally-efficient engines would reduce our overall CO2 emissions, and they did. Diesel ran into the buffers when it became clear that engineering engines for ever-greater efficiency made that local pollution worse, and in a new form. These are problems intrinsic to burning stuff — any stuff — for energy, and nothing to do with Gordon Brown.
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Post by bpg on Jun 28, 2024 18:25:47 GMT
I recall earlier posts talking about buying a used EV and the unknown battery status.
I bought a proper ELM327 adapter for my fossil fuel cars and decided to plug it in to my EV till see what was there.
The status of all 98 banks of cells including the strongest and weakest cells, they are all pretty close giving the same 3.82v reading at 65% charge.
The state of health is there, 96.1% after 44 months.
Counters exist for total number of DC fast charges v home wallbox AC charge, total number of kWh delivered via both methods, total energy delivered to the battery, actual run time in hours, battery coolant temperature, and, and, and ...
So, the information is there. If the dealer won't tell you, take the car for a test drive and plug in an OBDII adapter and get the information yourself.
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Post by Rob on Jun 28, 2024 21:48:06 GMT
And the question is why isn't that available in the car.... It could and should be. Thanks for the info.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 10, 2024 11:23:55 GMT
Interesting development in California...
Electrify America is limiting charging to 85% maximum so as to get higher vehicle turnover. The last 15% takes much longer than the previous 50% so this makes sense.
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Post by bpg on Jul 10, 2024 11:34:47 GMT
Especially if you've just pulled off the freeway from a 75mph run and start pumping 150+kWh into the battery in 100°F+ while sitting in the car with the aircon running. If you ever get the chance go and watch the Dutch charging, they only put in what they need for the next journey. Some are there for 10 minutes or less and I'm not talking about super-duper mega fast chargers or the latest vehicles. Given the size of the country and the motorway speed limit has been reduced to 100kph during the day (6am to 7pm) not really a surprise. Maybe that's what the UK needs to do, drop the national speed limit to 50mph then EV will work for everyone. Edit: Hauliers might be a bit pissed but they'll just have to lump it or will their lobbyists get on the case ?  |
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Post by WDB on Jul 10, 2024 19:57:55 GMT
The more confident you are that the next stop will be easy and quick, the happier you are to charge like that. And, of course, the more drivers charge like that, the more likely the next stop is to be easy and quick. It’s a cultural shift as much as a technological one, and this will help.
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Post by Rob on Jul 10, 2024 20:41:13 GMT
Compared to pence per mile in a petrol/diesel car, around 40p/kWh is low. But compared to home charging I'd find it a rip off.
But cheaper charging at or near home is a must for mass switch over to EVs and even PHEVs. My last house I probably could have spent quite a bit of money to sort out the side access garage/gates for off-road charging but we always planned to move.
Back last June/July if a PHEV like a 330e was the price they are now for given age/mileage I'd have had one. But cars like my 2020 330e won't have gotten into the second hand market outside the dealer network too much. Then I'd be sorted for mostly EV driving at the moment with ICE for longer journeys. The trip at the weekend would have meant public charging at the other end with no charging at the destination (flat in the Brighton area).
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Post by Rob on Jul 10, 2024 23:51:00 GMT
And before someone says older cars were in my budget I wanted up to 3 years old. My first cars were cheap at the time but the second needed an engine.... then company cars were my thing. I hope to do fewer miles next year - did about 12,000 the past year in the 6.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 12, 2024 7:57:01 GMT
I dropped into the family discussion this morning that Alfa Romeo have produced an electric car.....
Obviously to us, we know it is a rebadged and rebodied Fiat 600e, Jeep Avenger and various Citroens and Peugeots but.... It's had far better reviews than the Explorer EV and I suspect the claimed range is more accurate. Not sure if 255 miles suits me but it is not far short of the claimed range for my car, which I think was 280 miles.
The nearest dealer is 22 miles away. None in Greater Manchester at all. Madness.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2024 8:53:18 GMT
Tragic that the Alfa badge is being applied to SUVs. It's OK on large hatchbacks like the Stelvio, though.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 16, 2024 19:44:24 GMT
I parked my car this evening with the wheels on full lock so when I got out I had a good look across the breadth of the tread. No issues on the front tyres, a nice even wear and more importantly, after 23,500 miles I would say they are not even half worn. Some way to go to reach the wear bars. Compared the Merc E350 I had, the wear is not dramatically different. So much for the scare merchants saying EVs are just as bad as ICEs because they spew more tyre dust over the road then ICEs. Clearly they don't and the people who say that they have worn tyres out in their new EV after 8,000 miles are either lying or would have worn them out just as quickly in an ICE.
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Post by Rob on Jul 16, 2024 21:36:21 GMT
Is your car front drive only or all wheel drive?
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Post by WDB on Jul 17, 2024 5:20:21 GMT
I’ll answer that. Single-motor Ioniq 5s are RWD. Not many FWD EVs about, although small Stellantes and some Minis and the smallest BMWs are exceptions. Polestar moved the motor of the 2 from front to rear for 2024.
But the tyre wear canard is pure fossilist fantasy, like fires and collapsing car parks. Desperate people make up desperate nonsense. But we’ve dealt with all those now; they really need to think of some new ones.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2024 7:59:47 GMT
No they'll keep sticking to the old ones, these sorts of people don't like facts and evidence, preferring their comforting prejudices. Like Brexit inclined folk when presented with the evidence, they just double down, Trump/Johnson stylee. I expect the Venn diagram is almost a single circle.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jul 17, 2024 13:41:58 GMT
Blimey - tyre wear to Brexit in two posts! I can't even squeeze ManCity in that quick...
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