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The (lack of) range in my 60Ah i3 is beginning to annoy me. Tempted to upgrade it for a 120Ah but prices are rather steep, and ones with full spec like mine are rather rare. I want Pro Nav, Harmon Kardon, adaptive cruise and a sunroof so I’ll probably be looking for a while yet.

Is there anything else worse considering? I guess the equivalent in the UK would be a budget of £25k max. I like the i3 because it’s small so easy to park in town, awesome turning circle and plenty fast enough.
 
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mjt said:
The (lack of) range in my 60Ah i3 is beginning to annoy me. Tempted to upgrade it for a 120Ah but prices are rather steep, and ones with full spec like mine are rather rare. I want Pro Nav, Harmon Kardon, adaptive cruise and a sunroof so I’ll probably be looking for a while yet.

Is there anything else worse considering? I guess the equivalent in the UK would be a budget of £25k max. I like the i3 because it’s small so easy to park in town, awesome turning circle and plenty fast enough.
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We had a Peugeot e208. Quite a small nippy thing with a 50kWh battery but quite a different feel to the i3 which seems open and airy. The Peugeot was more dark and felt quite small inside
 
This is the turning point (obviously the car would need to support it too not just the cable, so solid state batteries...):

consent.yahoo.com

Electric vehicles could be charged within 5 minutes thanks to tech developed by NASA for use in space

The complex cooling technique, developed to maintain proper temperatures in space, can deliver 4.6 times the current of other electric car chargers.
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And still there will be people on social media complaining that billions is spent on space exploration when there are energy issues on Earth and people starving etc - Little realising that the majority of things we take for granted today is all thanks to NASA space exploration tech since the 60s.
 
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mrk said:
This is the turning point (obviously the car would need to support it too not just the cable, so solid state batteries...):

consent.yahoo.com

Electric vehicles could be charged within 5 minutes thanks to tech developed by NASA for use in space

The complex cooling technique, developed to maintain proper temperatures in space, can deliver 4.6 times the current of other electric car chargers.
consent.yahoo.com consent.yahoo.com
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While the cells are the current limiting factor, the local grid (particularly here in the U.K.) will become the limiting factor once you start talking about rapid chargers that pull that much energy.

The more energy you are constantly switching on and off like that, the more expensive it is. The hubs with 350kw chargers are already buffering out their supply with batteries to smooth out the demand and so they can use more chargers on the supply they can get hold of.

I expect we will see these things deployed for HGVs with massive batteries but not so much for car which for the most part are probably aren’t going to have batteries bigger than 85kwh because it’s just not needed.
 
mrk said:
This is the turning point (obviously the car would need to support it too not just the cable, so solid state batteries...):

consent.yahoo.com

Electric vehicles could be charged within 5 minutes thanks to tech developed by NASA for use in space

The complex cooling technique, developed to maintain proper temperatures in space, can deliver 4.6 times the current of other electric car chargers.
consent.yahoo.com consent.yahoo.com

And still there will be people on social media complaining that billions is spent on space exploration when there are energy issues on Earth and people starving etc - Little realising that the majority of things we take for granted today is all thanks to NASA space exploration tech since the 60s.
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And a lot of NASA tech was based on developments of WW2 tech. Just don’t mention where all the early aerospace medicine data came from.
 
Still waiting on our EV, the only answer we get is "it's still at the port". Same response for 2-3 months now. Ordered in January, built in April, shipped from Mexico to Antwerp in June and lost in the upside down ever since.
 
tsinc80697 said:
Still waiting on our EV, the only answer we get is "it's still at the port". Same response for 2-3 months now. Ordered in January, built in April, shipped from Mexico to Antwerp in June and lost in the upside down ever since.
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Perhaps Tesla’s approach of making you go to Southampton to get it isn’t so bad after all :p
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Perhaps Tesla’s approach of making you go to Southampton to get it isn’t so bad after all :p
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I'd drive anywhere in the UK today if I could pick it up! It's definitely been sold to someone else :D Having to buy another temporary car as I'm fed up waiting and can't survive with 1 car between 2 of us.
 
chroniclard said:
Probably waiting for a part at the port.
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Like a wheel? :D Surely if it's shipped from Mexico to Antwerp to the UK it would make it to the dealer for any missing parts? Seems odd it's just sat stuck at the port for a few months and the dealer has zero information other than "it's stuck at the port".

It's not even like I can cancel it and go buy another, even slightly used, as they've gone up several thousand since January even for one with 10k miles on!
 
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