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dannyjo22 said:
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For the benefit of others, it’s an old destination charger that Tesla uses to give out for free years ago if you agree to offer free charging for Tesla owners.

Most of these have disappeared over the years as EVs have for more common, electricity costs spiked and venues realising they can charge people for the service.

There is a map on the Tesla website but it’s never updated so it’s pot luck whether the charger exists anymore, most don’t.
 
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robj20 said:
That's not how I do things that, I absolutely need my cars to last a decent amount of time.
Current car I've owned since 2016, 130k on it so far. If I don't get 10 years that would be classed as a financial disaster for me.
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Have a look through 500,000 battery tests here

Aviloo launches independent study on EV battery health - Engineer Live

Overall battery health remains strong, however the data shows meaningful differences between models and individual examples of the same model
engineerlive.com engineerlive.com

You will easily get 10 years at average annual mileage
 
tamzzy said:
What we know so far for Li-ion batteries (NMC/NCA, not LFP) and capacity degradation

Fast charging when below freezing

There is a reasonable amount of variation between each battery (presumably because there's thousands of cells per battery) so not all will age equally. Goes without saying that batteries with weaker cells will degrade faster.
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Many cars have pre-conditioning (warming/cooling) to help this

www.kia.com

What is EV Battery Pre-Conditioning?

Learn more about pre-conditioning the battery in your EV in different temperatures, what it does, and why it’s important.
www.kia.com www.kia.com
 
The only issue I can see with EV batteries is random total failures, which can happen, but are generally uncommon. They don't suddenly start to fail after a certain age/mileage, nor do they seem to lose dramatic amounts of range either even at very high mileage.

One bonus is many EV's have an 8 year/100k~ warranty on the battery. I'm sure in future most batteries will have individually repairable sections to avoid needing to replace the entire thing, or something along those lines.

So if you do buy and run an old/high mileage EV, you are exposed to a major problem in that replacing a battery is typically going to cost more than repairing something on a normal car, should it go wrong. Then again, if your gearbox/engine blows up you can end up having to spend thousands to fix that on many modern cars.
 
Robbo said:
One bonus is many EV's have an 8 year/100k~ warranty on the battery. I'm sure in future most batteries will have individually repairable sections to avoid needing to replace the entire thing, or something along those lines.
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Pretty sure it's a legal minimum these days to have 8 years/100k cover on the battery, and they're all built from individual cells so can be repaired down to that level. It's just finding someone willing to spend the time doing it and not charging so much to do it that it's cheaper just to bin the whole battery off and replace it.
 
robj20 said:
Interesting so maybe 10% loss at 150,000km so about 93k miles. So over the life of a typical car for me maybe 15-20% loss.
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Probably acceptable with the saving of petrol over those 10 years (some of that saving will be eaten by road tax and pay per mile)

Don't forgot, no oil changes in those ten years
 
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david25 said:
Probably acceptable with the saving of petrol over those 10 years (some of that saving will be eaten by road tax and pay per mile)

Don't forgot, no oil changes in those ten years
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Yes that's a fairly big expense on modern cars as well, gone are the days of 5lt costing £20. Generally £200 for an oil change for me these days.
 
I'm just about to buy my first rear tyres for my MG4 Trophy Long Range.
Something I've never thought of before in 51 years of driving, do I buy All Season tyres?
I'm not a boy racer so what is my best option?

If the reply is All Season then what would you have?
Are those cheaper Goodyears going to be OK?


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I run all seasons on my ID3 because I've got a nearly 100 mile round trip commute so if the weather gets crap I don't want to get stuck.

I fitted the contis all round when I got the car last year and I've just replaced the rears with the Goodyear 4Seasons so far they feel just as good as the Contis
 
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