As someone who have made a career out of using statistics to forecast and drive several multi billion dollar businesses using hundreds of millions of rows of large dB data, I find your use of the word statistics is irrelevant without numbers and calculations.
Yes sir and thanks.
Certainly an issue in a century + for all the world's low-lying cities. This cannot be avoided but at least it's predictable and we can walk away.
Yes, I became an early adopter to learn about the technology and it was my only car for 2.5 years but I now have a 'beater' gasoline project car to enjoy working on since the EV needs almost no maintenance. After 3 years I treat the EV just like any other car. 450 km range does not trigger range anxiety, as you're aware. If want to go somewhere fast and inexpensively I use the EV. If I want to go somewhere slower or on unpaved roads, or park in dodgy areas I use my small SUV which currently costs around 5 times the EV to drive.
The Tesla EV chargers are busy at our local ski field but ironically they're at the top of the mountain. No 'charity dinners' held there, it's pretty basic.
Well, to be pedantic - 'power' rather than volts. I've measured this - AC charging efficiency ranges from 83 to 91% between 1.7 and 7.2 kW.
I think we had some in house testing here if I recall...?
All my testing is on 230VAC because that's what we have here. But the lowest current I evaluated is 7 amps and that equates powerwise approximately to 120V @ 15 amps. I don't see any immediate reason why using 120 should invite significantly greater conversion losses than 230 would, but for best efficiency the power level should be close to what the on-board charger was designed and rated for. For most current EVs that's generally 7.4 kW or 230V at 32A. (3-ph can offer higher levels if the EV can exploit that.) Aside from fully utilising the charger capacity clearly there will be a fixed portion of the input power needed just to run the electronics, which I have estimated is about 200 watts. So, at 1.7 kW total going in, that's a pretty big portion and I've seen only 1.4 kW appearing at the battery.
I wish that was true. The people competing to get free level 2 all would say the same.
To verify, the standard Prius non plug in has a full EV mode to use for things like driveway moving or a short run like a mile?
Maybe Aluminum Ion/Graphine batteries will pan out. Their theoretical 50x increased charging rates would increase convenience quite a bit.
Add butt ugly (for the most part) to the list as I couldn't tolerate the design of most EVs offered right now. I'm still surprised so many can tolerate the lame look of the Prius regardless of MPG, etc. Of course to each their own, but ****...
The Prius reminds me of that butt ugly car the guy drove in that TV show "Breaking Bad" I think it was a Pontiac Aztec, or some such. It looked like it had an ATM on the back of it.
Not here they dont....charging stations always have lots of cars in them.
