EV general discussion

[Simon]

£300p/m 1+24 10Kmiles for a renaul4 with regular insurance costs doesn't sound bad for a utilitarian pc for commuting gaming

https://leasing.com/independent-brokers/leasing-options-limited/renault/4/L0102610000019526621

or, is a leap much cheaper

You ordered one yet, voyeur?

 

[ICDP]

I realised I hadn’t done a charge to 100% in many months which means the cells would need balanced. It’s obviously not a complicated process, just charge to 100% every month or two.

Charged my 77kWh Born to 100%, left it for a few hours and then drove for 15 miles. The SoC dropped 11% over just 15 miles, which is obviously concerning. So I charged to 100% again and did the same trip. This time it dropped 5% for the same distance and the GoM recorded much better efficiency.

So if you are doing the 80% rule, don’t forget to do a 100% charge now and again to balance the cells.

Battery SoH is reported as 96% on car scanner app and that was at 14c for the battery. Not bad for a 2 year 8 month old EV with 25300 miles on it.

 

[radderfire]

I was considering selling my EV as I wanted to go back to Petrol. I miss the whole hearing the engine sound etc

It would be cheaper to get a recording of engine sounds to play!

 

[Journey]

It kinda makes me sad that the youth of today/tomorrow will never experience that mechanical connection with a car.
I guess it's called progress

I reckon the same was said about the connection between a person and their horses when then the motorised carriage first came along, again in the sake of progress. I am personally all for the world slowing down, we try to do everything too fast with no consideration for where we are headed a lot of the time. Personal feelings aside there are some great advantages once we finally get 'new' cars working in harmony with the rest of humanities needs, making them an even more important tool.

Yes, and the half the problem with that is they have no attachment and treat them as such, ie very badly, and spend as little as possible on maintaining them to the point of the car being a death trap.

I'd hope as car become more simple this is less possible and cars are harder for people abuse, no idea why people buy ditch finder tyres though that boggles the mind. My neighbours 2003 Fiesta has just been taken away sadly for her, serviced and MOT'd every year by our families garage, all that was wrong it it was a bit of rust and clutch started slipping a bit last year. I am not sure what you can do about people not caring about driving a death trap other than put more punitive measures on failures or make older cars have more checks more often.