Can I go the distance?

[Northernboy]

Max_Torque said:

The other factor is that when you slow down, your average speed is less affected by the interuptions in your driving, like junctions, roundabouts, waiting at lights.

They’ll still add just as much time onto the journey though, which is the important number.

[Captain Smerc]

boombang said:

Where are you charging until you get a point installed? Bwood area and pick up an EV on Sat. Sparky doing install has gone quiet!

There is one apparently flakey point at De Rougemont Manor and the town hall chargers are reported as busy. Slower one at Esso Warley on A127.

Bar resorting to 13amp or cheekily asking neighbours I am a bit stumped. Plan was to charge at home and work (40 miles away) but work have half cocked it.

I'm using this one as I type -
INSTAVOLT EV CHARGING STATION
Bassett Service Station, 215 High Rd, North Weald Bassett, Epping CM16 6ED

Edited by Captain Smerc on Wednesday 4th August 14:12

[Captain Smerc]

Diderot said:

Yes you should be fine. Seems reasonable to expect 240 at least in current conditions.

Picked ours up on Friday and have done 70 ish miles and on 73% battery. Google assistant reckons 180 miles range left and that’s with some exploratory accelerations and normal 70mph driving with aircon on etc. .You need to say ‘hey Google how far can I drive’ and it will give you predicted range at any point.

[boombang]

Captain Smerc said:

I'm using this one as I type -
INSTAVOLT EV CHARGING STATION
Bassett Service Station, 215 High Rd, North Weald Bassett, Epping CM16 6ED

Edited by Captain Smerc on Wednesday 4th August 14:12

Ah thanks, bit of a trek from me, sure I'll find a way around it for the interim.

[anonymous-user]

85Carrera said:

Max_Torque said:

The really important thing with EVs is that unlike ICE's, pretty much the more you slow down the further you can go!

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It's the same with ICE. Drive slower, use less fuel, you can further before filling up.

Yes and no. With an ICE, thanks to the parastic losses and critically the frictional and pumping losses of the engine itself, minimum consumption occurs typically at about 40 mph. Get stuck in say just moving traffic where you can't stop start or turn off the engine for any time, and your consumption increases. Get stuck in traffic with an EV and your RANGE goes up markedly

And of course with an ICE, to get min consumption you HAVE to stay way from the friction brakes, which means lots of slow tedious coasting towards a stop, that makes "going slow" in an ICE feel really slow. Thanks to their bi-directional powertrain, as long as you use regen and not the friction brakes, you can drive relatively sportingly (in terms of accel/deccel) and not suffer a large consumption penalty :-)