Random EV thoughts.....

not sure what existing thread this would go into..

have a leaf 2020.

but on the occasion i'm doing a fast charge, why can i always get 46/47 from a 50 hubs that is ran by easygo/plugsurfing (recently used charges in shannon)

but yet with ESB i don't think i ever got any higher than 45..... SOC is normally between 20-30 when i fast charge.

whats the units types they all use?

I think on the older Ecars chargers there was a power meter in a fusebox near the bottom which let you read the power delivered from the charger

I have a vague memory there was some complaints about a few chargers in lower voltage areas, so they weren't delivering as much power as advertised

these are the green units?

also had the same problem with the newer 50kw ones, just never goes above 45.

Since it's a park and ride, slower AC chargers might be more useful. Or probably a mix would be good, lots of AC chargers plus a few HPCs for people doing a top up before heading home

I'd hope they are all a mix of 7-11-22kW AC chargers and priced accordingly (ie 7kW is cheapest and 22kW is most expensive)

Assuming you want to park and ride and therefore go somewhere for a minimum of 3 and a max of 12 hours, 7kW for3 hours gives 21kWh gross so yes I agree with you. 11kW would be nice to have too, once it's not one of those badly implemented 11kW installs that only give 3.7kW on each side on single phase - ie 16A one or three phase

7kW charger for a 62kWh leaf.

Leaf charges at 6.6kW gross, so lets say 6kWh per hour actually delivered to the battery. That would be approx 11-12 hours from absolutely empty to full, excluding any top balancing time. 15 hours if you're going from dead empty to top full doesnt seem unrealistic but I'd question the amount of balancing. Are you sure it's not a derated charger like 5kW or something? Or perhaps your voltage is low? It's actually a 32A charger and the voltage determines the kW. 32A at 209V is very different from 32A at 257V

Is it load balancing as well?

I have a zappi with load balancing on it & my house is power hungry at night. the load balancing regularly kicks in & even turns the zappi off occasionally

Wut

I've long had this theory about Nissan that their design department has two settings, boring and repetitive or utterly bonkers

This definitely seems to be the latter, the interior is even crazier

Somehow I don't see the iron maiden style spikes getting past any crash test review board, particularly considering there's no seatbelts

Apparently the car has some feature where it'll record the surroundings and present it on screen with a sort of anime style overlay

I look forward to someone explaining in court that they thought those pedestrians they mowed down were just cartoon characters

Anyway, it's a concept car which will of course never be built

I really don't get why car companies waste their resources on these concept cars. Again there seems to be two types of concept, one which looks like it might actually end up being manufactured and then the utterly bizarre like this (another example would be that Mercedes concept that got longer or shorter)

I guess there's an element of cars as art, and also designers showing what they could do if they weren't bound to boring rules like practicality, manufacturability, safety or the general limits of the human body

Not a lot of resources comparatively speaking - probably a couple of designers on a computer to produce a 'non-physical' concept car. Probably more a marketing excersize to test the water before pushing ahead to an actual concept.

What city was the first for DPD?

$109k for a caravan 😱

So admittedly it's got a 45kWh battery on board plus a motorised axle so it can boost your EV along.

Also it can maneuver up to the hitch and park by remote control

Plus 1kW if solar panels so you can have power anywhere

But.... it's a f**king campervan

I guess it beats house prices these days 🤷‍♂️

True, although I feel like the California banks on nostalgia as much as quality

To be fair, I like the idea of a caravan with batteries, a powered axle and solar (insofar as I like caravans)

But, I don't like one enough to spend €100k in it

I get that some of it is fairly new technology for campervan companies, and it also takes time to get to mass production, but I just can't see the mass market appeal

Can't wait to see the DIY version, I wonder what you could do with an old Leaf or Zoe chassis and just put a caravan shell on top

True, there seems to be a very different campervan experience here versus North America

In America it's all wilderness camping with the gigantic mobile home or RV (which look awesome)

Here if you try parking the caravan in the wilderness you'll probably end up getting shot, so the experience is more trying to navigate the campervan park by torchlight

I don't think that's true with AC charging. It remains constant throughout the charge.