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He could have fitted it in place of his passenger seat James Bond style.
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Pick up a female hitch hiker, oh look there’s a lay-by. Will you, won’t you? …….. no? ……Whoosh
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There used to be a company in the Netherlands who specialised in Leaf battery upgrades and range extenders...I've no idea if they are still going.
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We had a company shipping an ejector seat from Turkey recently. I asked if the firing cartridges and rocket tubes had been removed. They didn't know what I was talking about. I asked for a few piccies - and no they were still on the seat
I hope you put a rocket up their a***!
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You're brave mentioning EVs on this forum
Might be worth your contact having a look at this company, have no personal link or use of this company, I remember seeing it a few years ago out of interest.
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It doesn't surprise me in the least, having seen how inconsistently DG's are handled even by large well resourced companies who routinely trade in them.We had a company shipping an ejector seat from Turkey recently. I asked if the firing cartridges and rocket tubes had been removed. They didn't know what I was talking about. I asked for a few piccies - and no they were still on the seat
Having previously been a DGSA (thankfully expired) I would not want to handle LTL consignments of DG's in a month of Sundays! Respect.
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Erm, you do know that they will take more energy to go uphill (same as a petrol car using more petrol going uphill) but when you go down they can recharge the batteries using the motor as a brake? (Unless you only ever drive uphill and never come back down again, which I’m not sure many people do…)
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You're brave mentioning EVs on this forum
Might be worth your contact having a look at this company, have no personal link or use of this company, I remember seeing it a few years ago out of interest.
Range extended from circa 50 miles to 130 odd for £8.5K. It'll make folk rush out and buy an EV just for the convenience...
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Dynamic braking dumps too much power too fast to absorb it all in the battery.Erm, you do know that they will take more energy to go uphill (same as a petrol car using more petrol going uphill) but when you go down they can recharge the batteries using the motor as a brake? (Unless you only ever drive uphill and never come back down again, which I’m not sure many people do…)
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You’ll have to expand on that, driving my missus car I lose range going up hill, (happens regularly going to west wales where there a long downhill stretch) and gain pretty much all back going down the other side. At no point does the regen meter go off the scale, so every bit that is regenerated is going back to the battery.
The only time it ever doesn’t work is if the battery is fully charged, then it’s got nowhere to go. When that happens you can feel there is no regen happening so you have to use the brakes, which almost never happens.
Ask anyone who’s driven an ev and you’ll get the same answer.
Bearing in mind they can charge at 300kW/hr in a fast charger how fast exactly are you driving downhill?
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Of course there are losses but “the battery not accepting it” isn’t one of them…
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first you said "hills" and now your example is "long hills".....
They don't capture it all, and especially when short fast braking, like in traffic and short hills.
you can't have it all.
Period.
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they most certainly don’t capture it all but I’ve rarely had the regen bar off the scale except for the odd “oh sheet” moment - downhill (long, short, steep or otherwise to fulfil your criteria) certainly never apart from a really cold or fully charged battery.first you said "hills" and now your example is "long hills".....
They don't capture it all, and especially when short fast braking, like in traffic and short hills.
you can't have it all.
Period.
@sg66 , do you have any contact details or links to them?
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(Unless you only ever drive uphill and never come back down again, which I’m not sure many people do…)
Never been to Sheffield have you?
Wherever you are where you want to get to is always uphill.
When you turn around to go back to where you started from it's uphill again.
Sheffield occupies its own special topographic corner of the spacetime continuum.
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So then why don't you go and haul that battery for the OP then ?
