Not the latest model
EV drivers must hunt for those elusive working chargers sooner than they were led to believe. And range declines anyway as the battery ages. How shocked are we? Not much.
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Drivers should take advertised electric car ranges with “a pinch of salt”, after research found real-world distances were on average almost a fifth lower than manufacturers’ figures, reports the Telegraph.
Consumer group Which? tested 60 vehicles ranging from large SUVs to smaller cars and found that they had an average range of 192 miles, compared with 238 miles under the official tests used by manufacturers.
With UK drivers facing a ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars in 2030, there is growing interest in electric models. But worries about running out of charge, known as range anxiety, is a key concern.
Emily Seymour, sustainability editor at Which?, said: “Overstated fuel economy is something petrol and diesel car drivers will be aware of and we’ve found the same is true of electric vehicles.
“Our independent tests show electric cars fall an average of 45 miles short of official figures with some cars losing well over 100 miles of their claimed range – a real issue for those planning to travel long distances or people who can’t charge at home.
“If you are in the market for an electric car, take the official range with a pinch of salt as it doesn’t reflect real-world driving conditions.”
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InsideEVs says: Avoid getting your EV below 10-20% battery remaining.
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I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked. And cold.
I recently had a survey done to check whether it was viable to add battery storeage to my PV system, (Ed. It wasn’t) When I asked what the energy conversion efficiency was, the engineer claimed 98%. This seems very high, even for when new. Does anyone have any idea if the claim holds up in real world useage?
Reblogged this on Climate Collections.
Electric aircraft severely damaged in test flight over Cranfield.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-62086128
Looking back I remember when there was a lot of interest in natural climate and geophysical variations. Energy is quite obviously extremely important, but the many thousands of articles about energy that replaced the daily stream on many blogs simply cannot be made attractive and interesting. It’s not the fault of any writer; it’s just the flat, dull nature of the topic (extremely important and totally uninteresting). I don’t even skim those headlines (manual filtering at present but wondering now about automation).
95% of electric cars ever built are still on the road. The other 5 % made it home.
After deducting the overestimate of the range and heeding the advice not to go much below 20% of remaining charge, EV drivers haven’t got much more than half the advertised range left to play with.