Charging an EV may be more expensive than you think...

It means you get range anxiety less often, but you still have the problem that it's going to take you many hours recharge the battery when it does runout. And the fact that many manufacturers CLAIM this range doesn't mean that many cars actually achieve that range in real life. For example a Mini electric does about 3 miles on 1 kWh and that's the REAL life mileage. So a car the size and weight of a Mini would need a 100kWh to do 300 miles. Bigger cars would need even bigger batteries.

The next problem is that the National Grid simply can't supply the fast chargers that you're talking about. Sure, there are the occasional 150kW chargers around (if you search them out) but the only way that they can sustain that rate of charging is if they've got battery back up - the National Grid (even on their expensive fast connections) rarely delivers more than 40kW over a period of time. And if you're charging at home you're limited to 7kW which will take at least 15 hours to charge a 100 kWh battery.

Ian Dale bought a very expensive Audi e-tron GT and he described his experiences on his LBC radio program - he basically summed it up as "useless".

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Electric cars were abandoned over 100 years ago as a means of travel (except for milk floats and the like) when the ICE engine arrived. The batteries took too long to charge and were too big and heavy. Over 100 years later these problems still remain - but unfortunately they've been joined by a huge list of other problems. 

Mot really. My reasons for buying a hybrid are open on here. My support for it well known. My next car will be all electric. 

Your attempt at being another Bentley a failure. 

But you didn't read the article you posted, you just searched google for "EV bad" and added the links, thus diminishing the quality of your opinions even further. 

Well done you. My son put 270 miles in his car for a tenner. He did it in his sleep. Yours cost you £70 quid for the same.  Mug. 


And as a bonus his heater works just fine. 

Oh and BTW your electricals in your car do use power and do cut your range. 

A technical truth that hides the practical truth.

The heater in an IC car (the part that really is sometimes needed) wont cut your range, Using AC in an IC car will cut your range. The other gizmos (radio ect) will technically cut your range barely perceptibly - they probably knock of a mpg ( a guess at what a 20 watt load looks like to an ic engine).

However, this is where the real difference lies - an ic engine doesn't have a range / refueling issue and so these smaller loads really mean nothing.

..and so in summary

The accessory that may well be essential (the heater) massively effects the range of electrical cars and does nothing to the range of an IC car

The AC will affect both IC and electrical

Other accessories have very negligible effect on both.

However, any effect is more deleterious to the function of an electric car because electric cars have a bad enough refueling problem to start with.

You are living on another universe BVL. Along with your sat phones and ever lasting batteries...LOL

Don't bother asking next time.