Random EV thoughts.....

Just worked out that it would be the equivalent of driving from Dublin to Wexford, then to Killarney via Cork, then on to Sligo via Limerick and Galway, on to Derry, then Belfast and back to Dublin again. Roughly 16 hours without stops or traffic issues. Start at 6am, finish at 10pm. Bladder full, stomach empty. 🤣

You'd wonder if the extra weight of that battery would have a greater impact on range though.

Where are you starting from? Donegal? Dundalk? Dundalk is 340km and about three and a half hours. Donegal is a longer drive time wise. It's your choice if you want to do that without a break, but it's advisable to take a 15 minute break every two hours of driving. And even if you do it non-stop, there are plenty of EVs that will do that trip without stopping for a charge, using ABRP or motorway food. And preconditioning is automatic once you select a charger as your destination in most modern EVs. No need for your phone either (also unsafe to be using while driving).

Different battery chemistry should have greater energy density than the old type of battery. Electrons don't weigh anything

The idea is that it won't weigh any more than what the current ones do.

As far as I know though, nio are not letting customers buy these cars with the big semi solid battery, lease only. That makes me wonder how confident they are in the durability of the battery.

Why won't you accept that this is what the poster will do and more to the point wants to do without trying to undemine his position. This is why so many discussions end up in unnecessary arguments.

I regularly do a 350km non stop trip to West Cork and up to now always used a diesel (with the exception of a couple of disastrous attempts in a Leaf🤣). I never stop unless the kids want a toilet stop which is very much a rarity.

Next time though, as long as I can leave one at home🤞, I'll be travelling in a Model 3 which will also make it without a stop. Personally hate stopping during a journey but would do it as necessary to charge an EV. So no problem accepting that others may think the same way.

First "green" concrete truck in Dublin (note concrete itself is a big emitter)

B6 & B7 passats had a 70l tank and were more than capable of 1200km on a tank. That's the first one off the top of my head but I'm sure there were many more. Actually the e60 probably had similar now that I think of it.

At the TRA2024 conference today and some impressive stats on some of the Dublin Bus fleet.

Doing 1600km in a manual Dacia Sandero without stopping. My idea of hell on earth 😂

My mother in law had one, worst car I've ever driven. Even worse than a Skoda Octavia.

Says the chap who extolls the virtues of "cars" like degraded Fluence ZEs and Leafs with an 80 km range. Less usable than a 1950s Morris Minor. By any objective assessment the current Sandero is a very good car for the money. If Sanderos and Octavias are the worst cars you've driven, you've lived a sheltered life!

PS what is it with with EV fans wanting to stop all the time on long journeys? Prostate gland swollen to the size of a tennis ball? Shur, might as well charge while you're at it.

LOL. A degraded Leaf or Fluence can still do more range than at least 30-40% of cars in Ireland ever do. You do realise the average car in Ireland does 35km average per day? And many, many times more comfortably so than a crappy manual econobox.

OK sure, you need to do 1600 km several times a week without stopping. You and 2 other people in Ireland. Nobody is suggesting the three of you (0.0000001% of the population - although I call BS, nobody has ever done that in this country) buy any degraded EV, or any EV for that matter, even the longest range one. And nobody is holding a gun to your head. You can buy whatever you like

One wonders why people like you are you defensive. What are you afraid of? Progress / change? I guess it is only natural, most humans would like to go back to how things were in the past, most people don't like change.

Old Chinese curse: "may you live in interesting times". Well indeed, we live in very interesting times 😂

Revolutionary is the NIOs 150kw solid state battery. Part of the reason is that China auto will bankrupt legacy auto.

China auto will also be first to market with a full solid state battery vehicle.