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Andy K Member Since: 18 Sep 2015 Location: GL Posts: 4985 |
When you put it like that, you don’t really need a fast charger at home.
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Sun Mar 15 2020 8:46pm |
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insiorc Member Since: 17 Jul 2016 Location: Scotland Posts: 533 |
I've not got any form of electric vehicle, but for charging batteries of any sort the no.1 killer is heat. Fast charging creates heat, and although with lithiums it's been promoted that they are less affected by fast charging but it's now creaping out that they are also affected in a big way, giving much shorter life - a person may well think it'll last their usage lifetime before selling on/handing back but it will slowly start being noticed as less capacity which increases running costs as they take the same or more electricity to charge. And this all has a negative impact on the environment which I expect many electric vehicle buyers are thinking of.
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Mon Mar 16 2020 5:17am |
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Andy K Member Since: 18 Sep 2015 Location: GL Posts: 4985 |
I think Tesla's only charge up the amount required, (with a bit of margin), rather than a full charge.
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Mon Mar 16 2020 12:05pm |
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Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476 |
Most BEV will only go to 80% on a “super” charger - more than 50kWhr - then the charge rate tails right off. My PHEV takes only 3 hours on a domestic 13 amp plug for 26 miles range, but it also has software to limit the charging rate to a max 7.2kWhr to avoid damaging the HV Battery. At home the MaX charge rate without a 3 phase supply is something like 22kWhr. I’m about to place a reservation on the new Tesla Y and to charge that on my domestic supply would take 4 days....... but new tech for Tesla is water cooling of the battery as they are now looking at 250kwhr charging - about 35-40 minutes to add 300 miles range on one of their susperchargers but heat pumps are essential for decent battery life. I’m quite happy with my low charging rate at home / on public chargers as I charge at home overnight and plug into a free to use public charger in the park and ride in the local town. I also don’t need to use my car every day so in the case I know I’m not going to be using it I set the charging rate down as BMW’s system in the Mini has 3 charge rate settings. Even with the Tesla with 320 miles electric range I would only need to do a full charge quickly if I wanted to do a very long trip away from home. 320miles electric range is 10 days motoring or more at my current journey distances so the car would easily get a full charge while I am shopping. I’m able to use my Countryman PHEV in pure electric mode so much that in 22 months I have only needed to visit a Petrol Pump 10 times....... a full fuel up with petrol doesn’t take much time either with only a 35litre petrol tank. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Mon Mar 16 2020 1:20pm |
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ilard Member Since: 20 Aug 2010 Location: London Posts: 975 |
I upgraded from 3 pin domestic to a 7KW 32A charger. I do not have a driveway so I have to trail cables under a cable cover over the pavement (sidewalk!), meaning I don't like leaving my car charging over night.
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Thu Mar 19 2020 5:04pm |
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