Probably not, but air conditioning, usb charging, auto wipers etc ain't much use with that battery haha :)
I havent charged to full yet but after observations (motorway from merlins to my house near enniscorthy) I would suggest the full range is between 80 and 90km. My old leaf24 with 12 bars would see 100km to 120km so that's about right for 9/12. On the early cars you need leafspy because the battery warning comes on so early you have another 20-30km easily.
Yes but an old corolla is more expensive to fuel and tax. (Note, I am not anti old fossil toyotas, my leaf is currently parked in my garage beside a prized posession of mine, my 1994 diesel carina !
I drove a brand new Corolla rental in Lithuania in October 2021, and it was an utter pile of shite.... Overtaking was very dangerous, as you had to floor it (it was an auto) about 5-7 seconds before you actually began the overtaking manoeuvre.
It had a sport mode, and when engaged, the only thing it did was changed the background lights on the dash/display from blue to red... and that was literally all it did!!
As a second car... give me a Gen 1 leaf with 40-60km range any day.....
Had very similar experiences in 2019 in the US, dangerous trying to merge onto a freeway with massive trucks going 80mph and your Corolla can only hit 60mph by the end of the slip
Would agree unless you reasonably regularly exceed 40+km in a day, then it becomes a pita. My leaf does about 110km per charge and covers the majority of my daily usage but as the battery continues to degrade this will become an increasing pita. So as per usual horses for courses and while a low range Leaf will suit some it will not suit others
I wouldn't be bringing a degraded Leaf onto the motorway either as the necessity to travel at leaf speed causes untold frustration for even trucks. I know as I've experienced the massive trucks filling my rear view mirror all too often😩
You only need to travel at leaf speed if you're short on range. I was doing proper motorway speeds yesterday as I intended to charge twice anyway (due to spacing of chargers I couldnt make it home on one stop and if I did leaf speed Id literally have to stop anyway so what was the point)
Of course but it eats range if you hitting 120kph and unless you're journey is short you'll be charging even on 40km journeys which is not worth it
I mean that's not really its use case tbh but I would expect more than 40km.
In any case, the best use case for an early leaf - especially a degraded one with no % display, like mine - is as a second car, pootling about town, collecting local errands etc.
For me it will have a few uses, we have a builders merchants 5km away that I would like to have a car to transport stuff in with better space than the model 3, a backup car until herselfs ora arrives (was supposed to be yesterday, will be any day now), and as a third family car for the young lad to learn in. We didnt really need it, but I like the idea of collecting early EVs that make no sense and this is the first on that list, along with a fluence, twizy, and maybe the new citroen ami!
Absolutely agree it's a great pottering around car especially if located in a more urban setting. Wouldn't mind having your other 2 EVs on my drive
would love to know what the gap is there between what the toyota boffins have concluded and what their marketing people decided to claim.
Self charging solid state.
“For both our liquid and our solid-state batteries, we are aiming to drastically change the situation where current batteries are too big, heavy and expensive,”
Is this really news, every auto maker and battery manufacturer are doing the exact same thing.
Toyota trying to make the batteries as small as possible......
......so they can fit a little petrol engine in beside it..
Be use our second car gets little use but when it does it’s often longer distances that a leaf with only 9 bars
Probably about the same as Dysons….
https://www.borntoengineer.com/dysons-first-electric-vehicle-might-skip-using-solid-state-battery
Anyone following the pole to pole EV challenge?
Looks amazing, they've already done the arctic and are halfway down the US
One thing I haven't figured out, how did they charge the car in the Arctic? I'm pretty sure Tesla doesn't have any Superchargers up there, and they're driving an Ariya anyway 😂
They made some small mention of portable solar panels but are very short on details
There's a couple of fossil trucks following them for support, what's the bet they're charging the car off a diesel generator? 😕
There's also Nissan e-Power - a specific category of a hybrid yoke. Or so Nissan claim.
That would be in the "anything with an e in the name category" 😂
Nice to see electric car rental getting more popular on the continent. Here it is manual vs automatic vs electric with the same company . For 2 quid a day more vs manual I know what I would get. Unfortunately to small for our family
maybe this would do.
I dunno. I met a lad here in France with an Id.5 rental at a single 50 kw charger that we hogged for 45 minute. He had no clue about which cable to use about the ccs connector or how to start a charge. After I left I realised I should have asked him to check if there was a card in the car. He was helpless.
There really needs to be a 5 mins instructional video that people have to watch before they get the keys to an EV. It doesn't need to be much, how to find chargers, start the charger and basic charging etiquette, etc
I get that people are generally tired and pissed off after a flight or ferry trip, but I imagine they'll be a lot more pissed off if they can't charge their rental car
Charger application for Kildare and Ionity in Charlestown in Finglas
The extra charging spaces are a match for the eCars ones currently at Mayfield, so it doesn't look Tesla are working on a Supercharger there.
It's interesting as eCars seem to have gone sour on that model of charger in favour of the 4 way delta one
I think they just take the cheapest option from a tender no? Probably got a batch of them cheap or moved them from the UK or something.
TBH I know having a big hub is great but there's already enough chargers on the m7, I'm more interested in the bus and truck chargers, will for sure have to take a spin up to see them (And block a HPC in my leaf taking 20kW on chademo!)
Any chance you can link to the Ionity Finglas location? And maybe chuck the link in the Ionity thread?
https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/application-details/95308
First time I've seen a "roadside" ionity station, it's the parking spaces on the Mini side of the road
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4041544,-6.3061686,3a,60y,331.67h,87.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7OZZB79g9f91qumUFQGgKA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
there is a 3d rended file there.
It's actually not as bad as I originally thought, there's food just down the road and the shopping centre is reasonably close
I'm looking forward to the spaces being ICEd 99% of the time 😬
