Anyone thinking of getting an electric vehicle should read this:
"The battery is supposed to have a range of 285 miles but it performs so poorly on occasions that it is only able to show a maximum range of 145 miles"
"Unfortunately, electric batteries tend to deplete more rapidly when cars are driven at faster speeds, meaning that their range on motorways can be disappointing. This is just the reality of electric cars in general."
And that was for a new car. Just imagine what the performance of a 3 or 4 year old car might be!
I'm not familiar with this individual situation. Also the writer has a car that performs as he expects it to. In the Tesla arena, I have heard of customers getting brand new battery packs, I assume because they did not perform properly. It is up the car manufacturer to see that their customers are satisfied.
ReplyDeleteBatteries do drop in performance during cold. My Tesla will increase its energy usage during the winter. But I expect that to happen and it is normal performance during the winter. For most drives during cold, this does not effect me. wwhen I plug in and need the car again, my battery bank has reached full. So in reality, cold does not change what I am doing. Should I be on longer trips, I may take the car above 80% to have a little more charge left at the end of the trip.
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Electric vehicles are the future. There will be some disappointments along the way as the author has pointed out, but it is not a reason to run away. We move forward into a much safer, cleaner, more environmenally responsible way.
I suspect the petrol/diesel has a few more decades and we may find electric is rejected in favour of something better.
ReplyDeleteMy 3 year old e-golf had almost no loss of range from new.
ReplyDeleteTo take 9 hours, suggests the fault was with the chargers, not the car. I used to find most of the motorway service units (Ecotricity) were broken and the few that weren’t already had users, however with the investment from Instavolt and others, there are many more options for ultra-high speed charging now.
My Tesla Model S is 7 years old now. I don't know how much degradation it has. As far as I can tell is very little. So far as I know is that on average Teslas should be 80% left after 300,000 miles. I can't speak for other car models or their respective chargers. In the United States, there are enough chargers most of the time. Popular holidays might be a bad time to charge at one time in an area my wife and I travel to. They have added a dozen new chargers nearby to help ease the load during those times.
ReplyDeleteIf it had been a lack of chargers then surely that would have been stated in the article? No doubt though, that is another issue that is causing concern. If chargers are not working and you need to go from station to station that is very concerning, all the time the battery is getting lower and lower.
ReplyDeleteLack of chargers in my 6 and 1/2 years of driving electric has never been a problem for me. I might have to wait once in a rare while. Other wise its been smooth as silk.
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