Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

Wonder how this will be received? Maybe was the batteries, maybe not

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/large-blaze-damages-building-used-by-e-bike-sharing-company-on-dcu-campus/a1016291826.html

Sounds like you're the problem.

64kWh MG4 - 460km+ real world range - which included a round trip from Kildare to Belfast, and mostly urban driving:

"You can buy a good 2nd hand ICE for a lot less money with a lot more range and can fill up in 3 mins vs 30-50 ( a lot more if they have a queue at the charger) without fears of high mileage issues with batteries that will cost a fortune to repair, these are genuine concerns whether you choose to ignore them or not."

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You seem to be unaware of clocked cars.

You sit on electric car threads and every thread with nothing to do with electric cars slagging them off and then try to say you have bought 3. Most recently telling everyone on the ID.4 thread how horrible the interior was compared to a Mazda.

Something is not really adding up.

Kildare to Belfast is 220km on the motorway. If I were driving that, I'd be averaging well above 56km/h. I could hypermile the ID4 if I wanted to but I don't have the time or patience for that silliness.

My regular long journey of 260kms consumes 73-77% of battery 60% N, 40% M gives a real 100% range of 350km for my driving style. I'm not an aggressive driver but I like to make progress and I drive at the posted limit where it is safe to do so. I've actually modified my route to ensure I'm on the most efficient one. The roads I'd have taken in the diesel while longer, were both faster and better quality and I was only scraping home with 7% which is too close for the comfort of my travelling companions.

Owning an EV can require a fair bit of mental effort when it comes to doing long journeys. I love the tech and the quietness so I personally don't mind but that's definitely not true of everyone. Some people do not want to do that, others think that if they've spent €XXk on a car that they shouldn't need to do that - as a car is ultimately about convenience.

Polestar 2, Volvo C40 & XC40, Mercedes EVs, Renault Megane, BMW iX3 from the research I did before buying my own car. Many others too, I'm sure.

There was a user here before named "Mad Lad" who was an OG in the EV forum, but I see you registered your user in March this year. Are you the same user re-regging, or is that a coincidence? Most of your posts seem to be based on 2015 - 2018 EV design, availability and infrastructure. It would definitely be worth catching up on what's changed since then…

Lol you come on here every day trying to tell the rest of us the electric cars are the ideal ICE replacement ! lol

Yeah, id3 interior is ****, isn't just me saying it.

clocked cars, the people buying clocked cars are the ones who do not know how to do their research on a car, you think electric cars can't be clocked ?

You think people shouldn't be concerned about the battery when buying a 2nd hand car which will no doubt have some degradation, so they'll be paying for a car with much less range when new, this doesn't happen and ICE, oh sure, if you want to nit pick you can say an ICE looses some efficiency with high mileage but nothing compared to EV.

As I keep saying, electric cars are good 2nd cars for people that have a ICE backup that can go wherever they want without restrictions, this is what people want, the rest are either enthusiasts and will put up with the disadvantages or People who don't do a lot of high mileage.

Yes, my 3rd EV and I think I'm entitled to an opinion about them at this stage.

It's a pity more manufacturers didn't made cars like the BMW i3 where the ICE is a backup only and doesn't connect to the wheels this would have been amazing and would eliminate the need for a charging network or hanging around chargers.

The Rex was a marvellous piece of engineering and a shame more manufacturers didn't apply the same, would have meant no dependency on a charging network. It was a take anywhere car 140-180 Kms range on EV and the Rex would take over when needed, I could turn the Rex on once the charge reached 70% on the Motorway and use battery on slower roads or in town.

With an average speed of 56 Km/h you got to be joking ? of course you're get 400 odd Kms at that speed lol.

In addition to the ones pointed out by F00t13f4n above, the MG4, MG ZS also have it.

It's 183km from where I am, and as pointed out in my post, included urban driving in addition to the roundtrip, which brought the average speed down significantly.

If I had been talking solely about motorway driving, you might have a point.

Yeah well said but seems there's a lot of pro liberal earth soldiers here in the EV section now that will tell you EV is going to save the earth, that the tech is good enough to replace ICE and all that which is BS, I'd say the majority of EV owners have an ICE at home and yes, the EV is a good 2nd car, it's probably perfect to replace the 2nd car actually but that's about it.

Perhaps if solid state batteries become a reality in the next decade or so then maybe but this is not going to be cheap.

No point in the E.U banning ICE sales until the tech is as good, it won't happen.

I didn't say electric cards are the ideal ICE replacement.

As I explained on the threads I have a lovely big diesel.

So the first post of thread is nonsense, the rest is the standard noise you post on every thread, even if the thread has nothing to do with electric cars, e.g. HVO thread

What are these unaddressed fundamental issues?

Well that first line is certainly nonsense. There are loads of people who would love to get an EV, but can't afford a new one, and there has been a trickle of EVs into the second hand market. Those that are in the second hand market at reasonable prices are a very small number of models.

It'll be another couple of years before the second hand market starts to get a decent amount of the many new EV models that have launched in the last 4 years, and people who can't afford to buy new are able to purchase one.

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