When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
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A lot of different options here. Let me give you an example of my current state/options
My wife's car is currently sitting in the garage and plugged in. I can see that the interior is 17 degrees. If my wife wants to drive to hyvee, she has a few options.
1. Unplug, jump in the car, and head to hyvee. You will use more battery by this method but it will still heat up faster than an ICE vehicle
2. From an app, set the temp to 72 and turn on the seat heater and wheel on. This will not use the battery, it will use our energy.
Good post..this reminded me that if I had a do over, I would get the Leaf model with the heated seats. Heating the seats uses less energy than heating the car interior.
I've been paying sub $2.50 for my gas for the last while it is all situational. Both my vehicles were under 20,000. I can afford to buy gas for a while.
A serious question I do have is what quality tires do EVs run with the batteries adding extra weight do they need like 8 ply tires?
2nd scenario. I'm doing a road trip to Kansas City from DSM. It's telling me that I have to stop and charge in Bethany for 12 minutes. About 10 miles outside of Bethany, it starts conditioning the battery to optimize charging in Bethany. I haven't did this in the cold so I assume it starts preconditioning earlier. This is all automatic
Yeah, heated seats are a pretty important/useful option for an EV in a colder climate. Slightly less important, but also very useful are a heated steering wheel and a heat pump.
My Chevy Bolt does not have Battery Preconditioning. Might not be a thing they are too worried about.
Standard tires, just like any other vehicle. Our Model X came with Continental Cross Contact LX Sports.
https://www.tirerack.com/tires/continental-crosscontact-lx-sport
I run Michelin X-Ice Xi3's on my Model 3 Performance during the winter, and run the stock Michelin Pilot Sport Pro 4S's in the summer.
EVs don't weight that much more than a gas equivalent. Same tires can be used.
When people talk about EV tires it is ussually referring to the efficiency of the tire (rolling resistance).
They need tires for their weight, but those already exist. It really isn't anything special.
The articles say the batteries are at 0. How do they precondition if the battery is at 0? Is there a separate battery for that? I assumed the one pack did everything.
The same way you warm up your car when you don't have any fuel.
If the battery is cold enough it's not capable of discharging any current. Once you're below zero F battery cell temp you get to where that happens.
If anybody is looking for a home charger set-up there's some Dewalt branded ones on woot right now. https://tools.woot.com/offers/dewalt-dxpaev048-level-2-48amp-smart-ev-charger-2?ref=w_cnt_wp_0_7
That doesn't sound right at all. The biggest issue with Lion batteries is charging when they're super cold. They can safely discharge current (assuming they have charge) at temperatures well below 0° F. I have a DIY temperature sensor on my back fence that has been happily operating in < -10° without any issues. I can post the data sheet if you want.
Note: I'm not up to date on Tesla's latest cell chemistry, just 18650's that you can buy off the shelf (nothing special). So while my info is possibly wrong, I doubt it.
A little more explanation please. Does that mean the batteries can't power the vehicle below 0? Or the battery then reads 0 but isn't actually dead?