EV Owners Thread

[Beebo]

It’s engineering itself down a very fast Cul
De Sac.
Maybe it has some use for unmanned AI delivery pods in the future. But the g force is too high for a human.

 

[Jameshow]

Kia EV6 and Hyundai ioniq 5 certainly have VTL capabilities. I’m sure others will too

The higher power extreme! Dacia spring does have power output might have a look!

 

[Buck]

An interesting blog here from Everything Electric.

The blog is by someone who is an EV convert and has done 300,000 miles in electric cars over the last 10 years.

Still worth a 5 min read
https://fullycharged.show/blog/5-things-the-general-public-has-all-wrong-about-electric-vehicles/

 

[CXRAndy]

An interesting blog here from Everything Electric.

The blog is by someone who is an EV convert and has done 300,000 miles in electric cars over the last 10 years.

Still worth a 5 min read
https://fullycharged.show/blog/5-things-the-general-public-has-all-wrong-about-electric-vehicles/

This paragraph is what my group of friends and relatives say

The cars will speak for themselves, and you will start to see why the results of survey after survey show that more than 9 out of 10 EV drivers will *never* go back to combustion engine cars.

 

[Buck]

Agreed. I can’t see a reason to go back to an ICE car.

All of the “fears” touted by the nay sayers are just a fear of change and whilst they don’t currently work for everyone, the arguments against are becoming less as time moves on and infrastructure develops.

 

[Beebo]

Agreed. I can’t see a reason to go back to an ICE car.

All of the “fears” touted by the nay sayers are just a fear of change and whilst they don’t currently work for everyone, the arguments against are becoming less as time moves on and infrastructure develops.

I agree, but only for people who have a drive and home charger.
Living in a flat or terraced house would be much harder. Unless they develop cheap curb side charging.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I‘ve had mine less than a month and can’t see me ever switching back. I’m probably one of thousands who wish they’d made the change to EV sooner.

 

[icowden]

Living in a flat or terraced house would be much harder. Unless they develop cheap curb side charging.

It's not *much* harder, but it is harder and as you point out, more expensive. Lamp post chargers should really have the same options for cheap energy as homes.

 

[ianrauk]

Unless they develop cheap curb side charging.

And even then, that wouldn't necessarily work. Our street for example is terraced with no off road parking. Parking on the street is always busy. Rarely getting a parking spot outside your house. So unless they place charging ports every few yards, it's a non starter.
However we will be in the market for a Hybrid next year.

 

[icowden]

And even then, that wouldn't necessarily work. Our street for example is terraced with no off road parking. Parking on the street is always busy. Rarely getting a parking spot outside your house. So unless they place charging ports every few yards, it's a non starter.

That's the point of lamp post chargers along with a relatively long charging cable.

 

[ianrauk]

That's the point of lamp post chargers along with a relatively long charging cable.

And as I said, if you can get a space. In our street lamp posts are few and far between. Unless there are specific marked bays by the lamp post, you won't get a space. Unfortunately it will not solve the problem.

 

[icowden]

And as I said, if you can get a space. In our street lamp posts are few and far between. Unless there are specific marked bays by the lamp post, you won't get a space. Unfortunately it will not solve the problem.

Assuming your street is residential then the distance between lamp-posts is likely to be 30 to 40m. Therefore a 20m charging cable should allow you to connect to the nearest lamp post regardless of where you park on the street. A lamp post should be able to accommodate 2 sockets. So if you have 4 lamps in the street that's 8 charging points. On average each car will need to charge once or twice a week, so those 8 sockets should be able to support between 28 and 56 cars charging overnight.

 

[ianrauk]

Assuming your street is residential then the distance between lamp-posts is likely to be 30 to 40m. Therefore a 20m charging cable should allow you to connect to the nearest lamp post regardless of where you park on the street. A lamp post should be able to accommodate 2 sockets. So if you have 4 lamps in the street that's 8 charging points. On average each car will need to charge once or twice a week, so those 8 sockets should be able to support between 28 and 56 cars charging overnight.

Are you listening to what I am saying? That's if you can get a parking space. Car drivers will not take any notice of a if it's a charging lamp post or what ever. Hence the reason we will be going down the hybrid route rather then full leccy. That will never happen.

 

[icowden]

Are you listening to what I am saying? That's if you can get a parking space. Car drivers will not take any notice of a if it's a charging lamp post or what ever.

Yes.

You are going to get a parking space somewhere. And that somewhere is always going to be within 25m of a lamppost unless there is no street lighting. it doesn't matter if you aren't next to the lamppost, the cable can happily run down the gutter, past other vehicles. This is already working well in many areas of London, Brighton and other densely populated areas with few driveways.

 

[ianrauk]

Yes.

You are going to get a parking space somewhere. And that somewhere is always going to be within 25m of a lamppost unless there is no street lighting. it doesn't matter if you aren't next to the lamppost, the cable can happily run down the gutter, past other vehicles. This is already working well in many areas of London, Brighton and other densely populated areas with few driveways.

1: Unfortunately, changing lamp posts to cater for cars is not going to happen any time soon, at least not in my area.
2: We would not be happy charging a car away from the house, out of sight with an expensive cable (that would have to be at least 25 meters long) that can be pinched
3: Cost of public charging is much higher then charging at home

So for those 3 reasons. we won't ever be getting a fully electric car rather then a hybrid.