I agree, the heater and battery chemistry in cold temp come into place. I turn down the cabin temp and put on the heated seats, makes a big difference. Short runs in cold temps will always be a killer even in an ICE car
I have owned only electric cars since 2015 and it funny because I used to be really aware of these types of things, in the case of my first electric car which was a Nissan leaf with 100 miles range it was perhaps for good reason! However I can honestly say now that the range of my car never even crosses my mind, even in the extreme cold! Range of my current car is about 240 miles, I charge it at home and know exactly where all the fast chargers are in the local area (which I rarely use to be honest). I have a round trip to work and back of about 50 miles and probably charge overnight once every 3-4 days. It's no more stressful than owning a petrol car and you will get used to it.
www.wandsworth.gov.uk
Excellent selective reporting, the original report from fox Chicago relates specifically to one charging station but there's this throw away comment 'that this situation has been mirrored all over chicago', they also fail to say what's caused it apart from a quote from a 'local chicago vehicle' expert (who could be anyone to be honest), who says it could be due to battery preconditioning. There are Tesla charging stations in the far North of Norway so they don't just stop working in the cold!
I heard it sells in China for £8k, BYD is going to be a huge disruptor in the market.
I had a long list of Chinese EV companies ready to go, but then I found this site. It shows:
www.sophus3.com
I thought Polestar was an off shoot of Volvo?I had a long list of Chinese EV companies ready to go, but then I found this site. It shows:
1. The sheer number of Chinese companies that already have entered the European market, and
2. How the UK is not at the top of the table (probably due to our RHD requirements).
Chinese automotive brands in Europe | Part 2
The second part of Sophus3's paper on Chinese OEMs in Europe surveys and comments on their digital capabilities.
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It is - they're both Chinese owned.
well that’s shows how out of date I am
I am the same as the above and would have said the same except that last year my 2015 i3 needed a new component (not the battery) that cost £5,000 and with labour that was to be £8,000 - after a long saga that I won't bore you with I scrapped it for £4,000 (In reasonable condition it would have been worth about £12k). In the seven years I had it it was a brilliant car btw. However, that rapid end was quite a sickener and imagine if that had been sold to a delighted purchaser spending their hard-earned cash on finance etc it would have been a disaster. So I've gone backwards to a hybrid now and always caution anyone not to consider any secondhand electric. If you only buy new, keep it for the warranty length then you will be fine but electric vehicles are not suitable for secondhand purchases (and in time this might knock residual values etc also).
We're still in the early adopter stage, more cars means more used spares, more cars being scrapped to breakers yards. It will change and more garages will know how to fix them.
Owning any modern car long term, be it an ICE, EV or hybrid is too much of a financial risk where any repair can write the car off or at the very least get presented a bill for four figures for basic servicing. A case in point - change the cambelt on my 16 yr old Octavia 1.9 diesel, £330. Changing the cambelt on my wife's 5 year old 1.0 Ecoboost fiesta, £1200! I long for the good old days where you could change a clutch in a mk3 Cavalier in an hour and cost £80. Now a clutch change with dual mass flywheel is over a grand and takes all day. Thats progress for you.
https://www.nio.com/nio-power heres how they will do it.
Maybe they wanted to charge at ohm ?
