I don't know anyone who regularly does long distance mileages. In this age of working from home, it's become a rarity.
EV Owners Thread
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
I would really like to demonstrate that an EV is practical for my job (sales), so when I was doing the planning for a forthcoming trip to NI I looked at hiring an EV. However, when it came to taking the plunge I didn't fancy the thought of constant range anxiety driving in a place I don't know so well when I couldn't be sure of my exact route or distance each day and where I couldn't guarantee being able to recharge each night (very few hotels have charging points, even fewer have ones you can book). I'll just take my PHEV.
I’ve noticed over the past few months the charging points in the office block ( Plessey) around the corner are getting used a lot more. Today they were all occupied with a couple more Teslas parked adjacent to the occupied chargers. A few months ago there’d just be the occasional vehicle on charge.
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Tesla owners have their own charging network as well . Has that been opened up to all and sundry yet ?
Just another one on charging points . Was reading a thread on twitter last night on the subject of public charging points around safety . They actually pose a risk , well some may do , for women . Some of these charge points are not in well lit places, I noticed one in Dundee the other week . It’s not something you immediately think off but as they start to roll out more and more , I wonder if that’s going to become a bigger issue ?
I’m not sure, I only noticed the Teslas as they were parked next to the chain link fence adjacent to the charging station. ( we no longer have a car, but I do have an electric Brommie which I charge at home 😉)
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
A limited number of locations have been opened up on a trial basis.
For many years my walk to work took me past our local substation. I worked in Electrical Engineering including transformers, and the local substation had three medium sized transformers with the individual oil reservoirs above them. Several years ago I saw that they were boosting the capacity by installing automatic cooling fans on top of the transformer enclosures, there's been a lot more activity over the last month with a crew there for several days. I'll have to have a bit of a nose and see if I can spot any mods.
There's a lot of infrastructure work that will be required to boost availability. One of the companies we used to do maintenance for had some new plastic extrusion machines installed and the extra load that they would take required a new HV supply. It cost them a small fortune to have a new cable run over a kilometre to the factory ( the upside was they routed the cable underground along an existing footpath / cycle path which meant the path got resurfaced )
There's a lot of infrastructure work that will be required to boost availability. One of the companies we used to do maintenance for had some new plastic extrusion machines installed and the extra load that they would take required a new HV supply. It cost them a small fortune to have a new cable run over a kilometre to the factory ( the upside was they routed the cable underground along an existing footpath / cycle path which meant the path got resurfaced )
Reply to my own message , work colleague has just come in. Drives a Polestar , nice car . Got into a bit of an argument with a Tesla driver . Whom decided to leave his car reverse parked in a charging bay , using the opposite charger for that bay. Rendered the other bay out of use till he was finished ! I can see where this is going but n the public charger network ! Enshrines my already probably tainted view that Tesla drivers in general or nobbers
.I’m sure our resident Tesla forums members are not such people
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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Surely if they are not that's discrimination
IIRC Tesla's always have their port on the UK passenger side, whilst most other makes have it on the UK Drivers side. I know that there was an issue with opening up Tesla superchargers in that the built in cable on a Tesla supercharger is just the right length to reach a Tesla, with very little extra cabling. Thus if a non-Tesla wants to charge they have to park in the wrong bay. It might be this in reverse?Reply to my own message , work colleague has just come in. Drives a Polestar , nice car . Got into a bit of an argument with a Tesla driver . Whom decided to leave his car reverse parked in a charging bay , using the opposite charger for that bay. Rendered the other bay out of use till he was finished ! I can see where this is going but n the public charger network ! Enshrines my already probably tainted view that Tesla drivers in general or nobbers
This was a non Tesla charger , however said Tesla driver opted to reverse park I think ?! So had to use the opposite charger or something ? Point being the selfish twunt parked across the two bays to charge the vehicle !
Reminds me of the idiot Driver at my local filling station whom decided to park his EV at fuel point and proceed to do his wondering about the M&S shop . Stopping the already large queue of people trying to fill up ! Just selfish idiots everywhere
Accoring to a press report a few days ago, a business lass undertook a long distance drive in her posh BMW EV which had a range, as she said of 180 miles but realistically was about 160. Long story short, by the time she'd found chargers that were either not occupied or not broken on her planned regharging route, the journey took nearly 12 hours. In an ICE car, it would have taken about 4 1/2 hours.
cougie uk
Guru
Why ? Tesla built it. BMW etc etc didn't.
cougie uk
Guru
Accoring to a press report a few days ago, a business lass undertook a long distance drive in her posh BMW EV which had a range, as she said of 180 miles but realistically was about 160. Long story short, by the time she'd found chargers that were either not occupied or not broken on her planned regharging route, the journey took nearly 12 hours. In an ICE car, it would have taken about 4 1/2 hours.
But nobody would write a story of "woman completes car journey".
Either she is a numpty, untruthful or has really really really bad luck.
4.5 * 60 mph = 270 miles ?
Her car range is 160 so she only needs 110 extra miles.
Drives 110 miles til she has 50 miles (50/160 = 30 odd percent battery) left and charges to 80% range - so 80 miles added - she now has 130 miles in the battery.
Drives another 80 miles or so til she gets to 50 miles left (again 30% battery) - a few minutes to take her to say 100 miles in the battery (60 odd percent).
Two stops would take her maybe an hour ?
Not quite sure how you could turn that into 7 hours.
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