Electric cars

[1961_vintage]

he is however sharing his lived experience

Which, sadly, some people may mistakenly perceive to be the reality for normal people. Which it isn't.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Which, sadly, some people may mistakenly perceive to be the reality for normal people. Which it isn't.

I pick my daughter up and drop her off from a car park in Middlesbrough - when I first did that I noted some newly installed charge points ( I have known the car park a long time so knew they were a recent addition ) - 2 months later they are still not connected to any power source...................

 

[1961_vintage]

I pick my daughter up and drop her off from a car park in Middlesbrough - when I first did that I noted some newly installed charge points ( I have known the car park a long time so knew they were a recent addition ) - 2 months later they are still not connected to any power source...................

That's pathetic isn't it. What network are they on?

 

[NPBlue]

I pick my daughter up and drop her off from a car park in Middlesbrough - when I first did that I noted some newly installed charge points ( I have known the car park a long time so knew they were a recent addition ) - 2 months later they are still not connected to any power source...................

Hopefully, they are waiting for the tax additions that are rightfully going to be agreed, you know, like the rest of us have to pay with fuel duty and VAT.

There are too many expensive electric cars on our roads now escaping those charges, especially as they aint as green as they may think.

Fucking freeloaders.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Hopefully, they are waiting for the tax additions that are rightfully going to be agreed, you know, like the rest of us have to pay with fuel duty and VAT.

There are too many expensive electric cars on our roads now escaping those charges, especially as they aint as green as they may think.

Fucking freeloaders.

In Illinois, you pay a higher annual car registration fee for an EV to make up for the lack of gas tax.

Paradoxically, or is it ironically(?), no rebate for the extra EV owner’s reg fee this year, even though IL has removed the Gas Tax due to the high cost of gasoline!!!

 

[ChicagoBlue]

This guy is completely incorrect and doesn't understand how electric charging works, it must be a bait video surely? You get charged by the amount of charge you put into your car and nothing more, the speed is totally irrelevant.

This is like saying we'll charge you more for water by reducing your flow rate into your house but it's irrelevant. You get charged by the amount of water you use, not by how fast it enters your house.

If anything an electric charger company makes more money by charging up cars quicker. Let's say there's 12 stalls available to charge 12 cars an hour. If you double the speed of those charges and can now do 24 cars an hour then you have doubled your income.

The biggest problem at the moment is the price per kWh is going up everywhere including at home but then again petrol isn't exactly cheap either.

Some chargers DO charge by the minute where we live (Chicago, IL), even though most do it by energy imparted.

One of the bigger issues today is the charging ability of the vehicles paired with the charging ability of the chargers. You can have a car that can charge at 150, but a charger that will only do 50, and vice versa. In addition, some people don’t realize that they’re taking a 150KWH charger for their 50 KWH vehicle when there’s a 50 KWH charger next to it, and the 150 KWH vehicle that’s just showed up looking for a charge will have to use the 50 KWH charger!

I guess that is “EV Charger etiquette” that doesn’t affect 95% of people, but there is also the issue of EV drivers being “ICEd” by assholes parking their ICE vehicles in EV Charging Spaces!

Anyway, nearly every video that guy does is ANTI-EVs for some reason. I wonder who sponsors him???

I like Alex on Autos, as he gives comprehensive 20 min reviews, and there are multiple Tesla sites I follow as I have one ordered for this Fall.

Recently been watching ID4 sites, too, as we have one of those in order, too, but if we can’t get the Tennessee-built 2023 delivered by Dec 31, 2022, we may cancel it, as the $7,500 tax credit expires that day!

Our experience with a 2013 Volt (Opel Ampera) has convinced us full EVs can easily fit into our life, without range anxiety being an issue.

Plenty of YT sites that give great vehicle reviews, and Munro Live is a great site that tears down vehicles to let you know how the vehicles are built AND how they could be improved! Sandy Munro used to be an engineer for Ford and runs an engineering consultancy that specializes in EV tear downs and analysis of build quality and parts!

YMMV

 

[idahoblues]

Might be a while before they’re popular in the west

 

[Blue Maverick]

Hopefully, they are waiting for the tax additions that are rightfully going to be agreed, you know, like the rest of us have to pay with fuel duty and VAT.

There are too many expensive electric cars on our roads now escaping those charges, especially as they aint as green as they may think.

Fucking freeloaders.

And herein lies the problem, the bastards will get you no matter, what, leccy prices going through the roof now, wait 20 years when supposedly everyone will be driving EVs great for the environment (allegedly) but no tax! I remember when the Priuis came out zero road tax, that’s all gone now, electric prices going through the roof, unless they build a shit load of nuclear plants and solar stuff how’s everyone going to charge their cars?

 

[tommybooth]

Watched a review on a kia soul. 35000 and plug ugly. So for an extra 5 i can have the new civic type r. Order will be placed next year.

 

[Kompany Car]

Theoretically possible, but only tested on a small scale. As it stand a commercial non-starter as it would be prohibitively expensive to retrofit on existing infrastructure.

In-road inductive charging tests demonstrate unlimited EV range

The world's fifth-largest automaker has built and tested a charge-as-you-drive system – a loop of road in Italy with wireless EV charging coils embedded under the surface, so that electric cars can charge as they drive and unlock unlimited range.

newatlas.com

Bombardier developed a system call Primove a good 15yrs ago (I worked on the development), which has been successfully applied to a number of light rail vehicles and bus projects in Germany (Augsburg, Berlin, Mannheim, Braunschweig), Bruges and Sodertalje (Sweden). So it works perfectly well.
The biggest issues for these applications were getting sufficient power across the inductive link and the control system to ensure the sections were energised and de-enegised quickly enough so that they allowed progress of the vehicle without causing a safety risk. The main safety risk being eddy current heating in nearby metallic objects.