Random EV thoughts.....

If your doing a daily local school run in cold weather then your tank will only get you 250km, but the GOM says 830km. People think they get 800-1000km from a tank of diesel but for short daily runs the actual real world range is far less. The range to empty will drop eventually to zero, but distance covered won't be 800km. It's more to show that diesel range is often optimistic starting off with a full tank higher reading than you are likely to get from lots of short trips. The range shown seems to assume 60MPG UK which is only achievable on longer trips.

This could be an interesting option in the future if it works out. Great for shared/non-designated parking areas. Maybe a few people could share one either. Can't see any specs on the speed other than 30miles added in an hour, so not that fast yet.

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/06/17/ziggy-ev-charging-robot-orig-ht.cnn-business

So I've been looking at LFP cells for solar batteries and EVE now have cells which are rated to 70% capacity for 10,000 cycles

That's 27 years of use assuming 1 cycle per day

It makes you wonder about battery warranties being limited to 8 years, by all measures it seems the cars should achieve several times that without many issues

I get that the test conditions are quite different, for example most LFP cells are rated for 0.5C charge or discharge. So an 80kWh battery would be limited to 40kW of power and most EVs would be 2-3 times the battery capacity in terms of charging and discharge power

At the same time, you'd think manufacturers could be a bit more confident in their products. I suppose from their viewpoint, 8 years is the expected lifetime of a car without any serious issues and anything beyond that is bonus time

It also makes me wonder what the point of NCM cells is these days. I know they've better performance, but LFP really is good enough for most cases and is much safer and more robust (and cheaper)

It's good to see manufacturers switching over to LFP, I think that trend is going to increase dramatically in the next couple of years

I'd be wary of expecting any sales bump, if you look at the ICE sales then the biggest sellers are typically expensive crossovers, not budget hatchbacks

There's a very definite trend towards larger vehicles in terms of car sales and I don't see this changing for EVs

It's great to have the option of budget hatchbacks, but I think the better focus would be to make to price match the EV equivalents against ICE

This is happening already for some manufacturers, but I think they really shot themselves in the foot with the price hikes from around 2021-23. They seem to have burned a lot of customers in terms of resale value who in turn are spreading bad press about losing a ton of money on their shiny new EV