Would you buy a year old EV with only 1500 miles?

[anonymous-user]

gangzoom said:

. It's charged to 60-70% most of the time

this ^^^ is why the BMS is not getting the correct battery capacity btw!

[BertBert]

JonChalk said:

Options;
Set limit in car.
Set limit on charger.
Easy

Thanks, I'm not sure we have either of those for the Zoe, but I've never looked. So as you can tell, we run till low (not very low as Mrs Bert is risk averse) then plug in overnight and it's 100% in the morning. I'll investigate it further, but it seems counter-intuitive that one should need to take so much care when the car should be clever enough to manage that.

[anonymous-user]

BertBert said:

... it seems counter-intuitive that one should need to take so much care when the car should be clever enough to manage that.

I'm not sure that you do. The usable battery capacity is less than the total battery capacity to provide a buffer at both ends, never fully discharging or charging.

[mikeiow]

doesthiswork said:

BertBert said:

... it seems counter-intuitive that one should need to take so much care when the car should be clever enough to manage that.

I'm not sure that you do. The usable battery capacity is less than the total battery capacity to provide a buffer at both ends, never fully discharging or charging.

Yup....we are at 35k miles in our Kona EV now - a superb vehicle, and perfect for our needs.
We don't drive it very differently to our previous ICE cars....perhaps floor it occasionally for fun (fastest "hot hatch" I've owned!), but generally just drive it normally.
'fill up' every few days, often top up with free solar when home.

Shows the same kind of range we had when we got it.

I did read somewhere (#CouldBeNonsense) that the 64kW batteries in the Kona & sister eNiro actually have around 67kW to mask future issues for quite some time.

I wouldn't hesitate to buy the year old EV with 1500 miles. Full dealer warranty should be more than sufficient for peace of mind.
a 4 year old Tesla outside warranty might be another matter....

[anonymous-user]

Pixelpeep 135 said:

i'm sure the question should be 'Why wouldn't you buy a year old EV with only 1500 miles?'

Or why would someone sell 'such a great car'

Horses for courses i suppose but I've spoke to a couple of people who've binned them off as they couldn't do their job on the ranges provided presently.

[paradigital]

mikeiow said:

a 4 year old Tesla outside warranty might be another matter....

A 4 year old Tesla would still have 4 year’s battery and drive unit warranty…

[so called]

I bought a 2 year old BMW i3 with 10k on the clock.
I was getting the stated range or better on my commute.
I was using 100% of the battery charge every work day, 5 days per week for 18 months before selling at 60k miles with no noticeable range drop.
I then bought a demo i3S with 1200 miles on the clock.
Again range was easily as stated at 160 miles but in reality in the summer it would reach 200 miles.
1 then sold it with, again, no noticeable range drop.

I bought a new Ioniq 5 as I wanted a bigger EV.

[JonChalk]

BertBert said:

JonChalk said:

Options;
Set limit in car.
Set limit on charger.
Easy

Thanks, I'm not sure we have either of those for the Zoe, but I've never looked. So as you can tell, we run till low (not very low as Mrs Bert is risk averse) then plug in overnight and it's 100% in the morning. I'll investigate it further, but it seems counter-intuitive that one should need to take so much care when the car should be clever enough to manage that.

Ok, maybe the Zoe can't do it exactly by percentage, but you can schedule start and stop times and a bit of simple maths should be able to limit charging by time to not get to a rough percentage full.

If you're slow AC charging at home, ready to use the next day, it matters far less, and you're right the car is clever enough to manage it - it just depends if you want to / are able to exercise a bit more care.