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I have a couple of Jeeps and a couple of diesel dually trucks that I'll never get rid of or replaced, but I thought it would be pretty cool to have an EV that I lease as my daily driver when I get my next off grid house with my own power generation. Just watching what comes out and what develops a good reputation; the Rivians seem pretty cool. I'll probably get one when I grow tired of driving my manual Jeep JL
Today I had the ?bad experience? with not enough battery power and being on a time line.
I had a flight to make and the full charge would have gotten me to the airport with 5% battery. But that would have required driving slow.
So I had the choice? drive faster to make distance and recharge along the way or drive slower and make it with just a little juice.
I chose recharging and driving faster. I drove a lot of the way at around 125mph (no traffic, good roads).
With charging it was 3 hours 20 minutes.
With a decent gasoline (or diesel) car and that level of traffic, making the airport on a tank of fuel is no worry. And driving fast is normally just under 3 hours.
So learned that anything more than one battery full, it starts taking much longer with an EV.
Also where at slow speeds the car was getting 88 to 99 mpge going fast I was down to 64mpge. It seems like still very good efficiency, but 50more energy use really depletes a battery.
So much lesson was? if you need to cover longer distances quickly.. an EV is not the way to go.
The car would go fast (I wasn?t passed), but consumption suffers.
Physics of 125mph is quite bad on wind drag and everything else, efficiency on an ICE vehicle would also be horrendous.
Not to be a debby downer, but please slow down a bit, if nothing else for your own sake. That risks revocation, and even if roads are clear, human reaction times @ 125mph presents an increase risk if something does happen (You're moving 183FPS), and the physics involved make the accident much more of a risk, both in kinetics and the stronger potential of a lithium fire, etc, even from something relatively dumb like road debris or an animal impact.
We want to continue to see you happy, driving, and safe.
Marketwise the EV is not going to be acceptable until batteries are standardized and you can swap them like a propane tank. I envision a pallet jack type swap, trade in a battery for a fresh charged one at a EV station.
It was safe where I was driving that fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by FoxtArt
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News flash the environmental crisis does not exist. But, these guys are closer to the truth than many.
Our next car will be a rechargeable hybrid. Our daughter purchased a 2009 Honda hybrid (low miles and garage kept) and it gets 30 mpg on the original battery, could get 50 if we replaced the battery. I always want the ICE option but being able to commute to work or short errands on battery power sounds like a win.
At the same time we have no plans to give up the manual VW or the Ford Expy. :)
Trying out a different EV.
Have a Macan 4 at the moment. It is rated at 402hp.
What this has taught me: the weight of an EV, and only making 400hp = not too fast. (they are rated 0-60 in 4.9 seconds).
I am not sure I could live long term with a car like this. It is too slow to make up for not having distance. With the Taycan 4S I had to stop and charge one time from FRA to BSL, with the Macan i had to stop once to charge. The difference is the Taycan lit up the dashboard at 152mph like a christmas tree warning me I was exceeding tire speed rating, the Macan 4 is pretty much done at 130mph.
The Macan is a nice car dont get me wrong, just not fast enough that I would trade gas for electric.
All of this is a little ironic.
DOes anyone remember cars from the 80s? A 200hp car was blazing fast and some italian **tard would be out cruising in a 200hp car looking for a foxy body to get embarrassed by...
It seems to me that you just drive like a bat out of hell everywhere/far too frequently so if you're concerned with performance above 130mph+, your opinion is truly an "edge case" and not what a usual driver will be hung up on... Care to explain why you're such a big speeder?Quote:
Originally Posted by DDT951
Mine and my brother's first trucks were like 100hp... Remember the old S10 or Gen1 nissan pickups? I'm pretty sure my Nissan was 134hp and his S10 was 94hp... but they were anything but fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by DDT951