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[nickk]

Pity that Ktm has the battery so high !

 

[thinfourth]

Hello Thinforth,

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The charging infrastructure still sucks big time but 90% of charging is done overnight on peoples driveways. And because they are charged overnight they use power when the grid is at a low level."

I would think that anyone who commutes to work will want to recharge during the day also to keep a full charge so I do think the 90% at night is optimistic? Winter is the big test when heaters , wipers and lights are used so severely impacts the battery charge level.

Alec

The 90% is based on measured data not guesstimates

And your daytime charge assumes that you need one

To need a daytime charge then you are doing about 70miles a day which is over 16,000 per year. Or double the UK average.

 

[MrFluffy]

Our clio just coming up to needing its first test, 70+k on the odo. Galaxy 2006 which has become second car has just gone past 200k. And we both work from home, thats just running round with the kids and the odd trip out, not including that we have a big panel van, landrover and a motorhome not included in those mileages, and I have motorbikes though I'm never using one of them because I *have* to, just because its more fun
Somehow think I'm not the target market for these things yet.
The only thing good I can come up with is not having to drive 10km to refill with petrol.
When they are dirt cheap, and everyone has reverse engineered the battery controllers, I may be tempted to retrofit my midengined kitcar with electric parts as long as I'm actually allowed to modify it by then...
If we were serious about pollution control, we'd never have increased lpg taxes to make it uneconomical over diesel engines again.

 

[outofthefire]

If the world powers were serious about the environment and the future of mankind they'd fund the **** out of this and provide us all with limitless energy, but they won't because they'd not make enough off of it. https://www.rt.com/uk/369020-nuclear-battery-diamond-scientists/

 

[wookie]

If the world powers were serious about the environment and the future of mankind...

There is a lot that they could be doing but they won't because they can't make any money for themselves or their friends.

Personally as a petrolhead and biker I actually like the idea of electric bikes, for starters there is a lot less weight to move around with a bike than a car so that's a big headstart. Just remember Colin Chapman ... "Simplify and add lightness" that's the way the auto industry should be forced to go.

Perhaps they should tax cars more based on how heavy they are ? After all it takes more energy to move something heavier...

 

[Northumbrian]

JP Morgan once said when Nikola Tesla was looking for funding "I won't back anything, I can't put a meter on"

 

[Gwil]

As others have said it's a great idea, but at the end of the day the majority of the electricity produced comes from power stations burning fossil fuels! Yes the CO2/NOX isn't being pumped out of vehicles in to cities/towns etc, but it's still being pumped in to the atmosphere.

Until we can actually solve the problem of producing electricity from renewable sources instead of fossils fuels, we're not actually solving any real problems.

An increasing number of countries have managed days at a time just on renewables- and the Chinese have announced they will be investing 320 billion in renewable energy.

And the average commute in the Uk is apparently 7 miles. Like I say, it's the future.

 

[dannyp]

i want an electric car. i chould do over 95% of my miles in one ( but i want one that goes some and that i can offord )

theres 60A avalible in the garage anyway, at work theres 32A 3ph avalible. and if the lights go out ive got a genset so chould fill my electric car up useing cherryade

 

[Normsthename]

I own a Renault Twizy
It's just coming upto 5 years old and it's just turned 18000 miles.
The battery is showing no signs of any degradation and it still charges to 100%
I use it every day for commuting 16 miles to work and back and it takes approx. an hour and a quarter to charge each night.
When fully flat it takes 3 hours to charge.
Regarding the Nissan Leaf this is the quote from Nissan :-

Nissan warrants the Leaf's battery against defects for 8 years/100,000 miles. It projects its life for at least 10 years, with the expectation that you'd have around 60-70 percent battery life at that point, depending on usage patterns.

Andy