Hi all,
I am hoping to get a polestar 2 in the next 2-3 years… a couple of people have warned me about buying a preowned electric car as the batteries would have taken a battering and wouldn’t be running at 100% capacity due to age,
someone said to me that the Tesla model 3 battery normally starts deteriorating at 3 3 years and needs to be replaced by 10 years… is this a load of rubbish or is there some truth behind it ?
150kW is only peak, and is the goldilocks zone of battery charging with right SoC and temperature, some cars cant even take the max charge but i dont think you mentioned the car?
EQC ... really you want to know what are the reasons why a charger might be down on power,
can it be a regular local grid supply issue, at peak times, so you should perpetually black mark that one ? or is it always charger hardware,s/w itself.
like for traffic diversions, I suppose you can find other people divert to alternatives too, creating queues there
I’ll definitely have a chat with both bp and Merc - good idea. Some constructive feedback might resolve a problem that was unknown etc
I think the common consensus when it comes to (non Tesla) EV charging is Instavolt > * they're the only ones I look for and would go a little bit out of my way for one rather than taking my chances on the others. The other ones are all varying levels of average to bad!
Agreed
Did a full charge at an instavolt in under 45mins using one of their 125kw units. Absolute beast.
Even at 99% it was pulling 22.
Wouldn't usually go all the way to full but needed the range that day.
45mins soon goes when you nip to Costas for a coffee.
Still had some etron credits left so cost me nothing
Northern Ireland is attrocious for rapid chargers and the only proper rapids are in the Republic of Ireland. Had a trip in my E-Tron 50 a few months back and stopped with 53% battery at an Ionity 350kW but my car topped out at 127kW. Had a quick lunch and Icecream with my 8 year old and 20 minutes later the car was at 100%.
I used my E-Tron card that had credit but was still charged £8.60. It seems that the E-Tron credit only applies to the UK. I did tell a guy at my local Audi dealer that maybe the N. Ireland customers should have their credit setup for use in the Republic of Ireland. The look I got told me he didn't give a crap.
Fella up the road from me has an EQC and he told me about a similar/same issue with BP where the charger would not deliver more then 100A to the car, he uses his for work and often does medium-long trips in it, it is frustrating especially as he gets free BP Pulse through his employer, but can't take full advantage so opts for Instavolt and Ionity. Problem has been reported to BP and MB more than once but no one wants to own up to being responsible.
Audi customer service has been shocking. I'm going to enjoy the etron for one more year then it's going.
Reading about all the charging woes on here makes me glad I opted for a M3LR. Had it about a year now and charge mostly at the free charger my work has provided but when I'm away from home the Tesla SC network is unreal, most of the time I'm getting 200KW+, it will take me from about 15% SOC to 80% in the time it takes to eat a MCDonalds.
People moan about the build quality too so I must have got lucky as mine has been flawless and with the performance upgrade it's stupidly fast too. All in all I would definitely buy another.
We need a new 7 seater next year when my wifes PCP expires, it's just a shame the X is so damn expensive or I would be ordering one. Might look at the ID Buzz when it gets released.
Lots to recommend this, but there are two sides to every advance. I'd like to know how the 3 primary castings are joined, and what severity of collision makes my Model Y a total loss. (Since I am planning to buy my next EV next year, and it may very well be one of these Texas-made Model Ys.) And how one manages lower-severity repairs. (As I recall, the alloys for die-casting are rather limited in how much they can be straightened if bent.) And what all of this does to insurance rates.
You don't need such chargers at 'every service station'. When the majority of EVs on the road have a range of 230-310 miles then away-from-home charging will be a fairly rare event. There's already enough 350kW chargers around to enable me to visit any part of the UK I would ever wish to visit with a single top-up.If you had 350kW chargers at every service station then long journeys would be painless and you could stop for just 15 minutes and top up a decent amount. The Ioniq 5 would go from 20-80% and you'd be away again.
Reading about all the charging woes on here makes me glad I opted for a M3LR. Had it about a year now and charge mostly at the free charger my work has provided but when I'm away from home the Tesla SC network is unreal, most of the time I'm getting 200KW+, it will take me from about 15% SOC to 80% in the time it takes to eat a MCDonalds.
People moan about the build quality too so I must have got lucky as mine has been flawless and with the performance upgrade it's stupidly fast too. All in all I would definitely buy another.
We need a new 7 seater next year when my wifes PCP expires, it's just a shame the X is so damn expensive or I would be ordering one. Might look at the ID Buzz when it gets released.