RE: Mercedes EQXX does 746 miles on single charge
Discussion
Johner said:
What's the definition of fast?
At the top pof each column it shows the charger power ratings!The slowest "fast" charger is 50kW, which charges at a speed of around 175mph, ie adds 175 miles of range to the car it is charging every hour. The average uk daily car mileage is pretty much 20 miles a day, so one hour charging would be sufficient to "fill" the average EV for a whole week.
The fastest, the 350kW is equivalent to over 1000mph, enough to fill the average cars weekly useage in 8 and a half minutes.......
braddo said:
Essarell said:
It’s the 1% argument that I find interesting, I have a Renault Trafic for work, 99% of the time it’s realistically too big for my business needs and I often think I’ll downsize it. Then I’ll get one of those jobs where it’s size is a lifesaver and it pays me back. That 1% is a massive deal breaker to an awful lot of people.
Your example relates to space and work requirements, which is a completely different context to journey times of leisure driving on the continent.These 1% examples are utterly irrelevant for the mass adoption of EVs. There are 13 years left to buy hybrids new, so at least 20 years where non-BEV vehicles will still be commonplace for the tiny proportion of the UK population who do such long trips without breaks.
Essarell said:
that's the problem with planning using percentages and averages, right now there are hundreds of thousands of vehicles on our roads heading off on a weekend away or for their holidays. their average journey over the year may only be a few miles but its the one they are currently making that will decide the suitability of any future vehicle purchase.
How many of those journeys are going to be longer than the range of an EV, or where someone isn't going to take a 30 minute break during a 250+ mile journey?Answer - very few. And those very few people can keep driving ICE/hybrid cars for another 20 years. Those people are completely irrelevant for the transition of the vast majority of UK drivers to BEVs over the next 15-20 years.
braddo said:
How many of those journeys are going to be longer than the range of an EV, or where someone isn't going to take a 30 minute break during a 250+ mile journey?
Answer - very few. And those very few people can keep driving ICE/hybrid cars for another 20 years. Those people are completely irrelevant for the transition of the vast majority of UK drivers to BEVs over the next 15-20 years.
I look forward to finding out. Answer - very few. And those very few people can keep driving ICE/hybrid cars for another 20 years. Those people are completely irrelevant for the transition of the vast majority of UK drivers to BEVs over the next 15-20 years.
SSBB said:
Chromegrill said:
Why can't a new car have the same designer for the front and the rear? From the front it's gorgeous. From the rear? I'll spare testing the naughty filter.
Drag coefficient innit. 0.17. Tasty.Essarell said:
I look forward to finding out.
Enjoy ICE cars while we can. Guys like Max T and GT9 on here are helping make it abundantly clear that EVs are massively better overall than ICE for most personal transport. Remember that we're only 2.5 years in from when manufacturers started marketing hybrids and electric cars seriously (1st Jan 2020); there has been an astonishing amount of transition to hybrids and EVs in that short period so it's not hard to see how radically things will have changed by the end of this decade.Stock up on lightweight tactile driver's cars.
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