Good article in AFR on the weekend re BYD now in Australia.
Their battery & EV factory dwarf Tesla and at 8.6 Gigawatt is incredible. Anything with wheels is going battery according to them.
Also India is now banning the sale of fossil fuel cars from 2030 which is of interest.
Good episode of fully charged mentions above and more.
New EV organisation starts up in Canberra.
http://electricvehiclecouncil.com.au
The Electric Vehicle Council, launched in Canberra on Monday, will represent companies involved in providing, powering and supporting electric vehicles, including those that sell 350,000-plus new vehicles a year in Australia, and have more than 6 million Australian customers.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/electric-vehicles-big-energy-join-big-auto-drive-aus-ev-uptake-86083/
Charger location guide looks interesting.
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV at the Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) treatment plant in Oxley, south of Brisbane, is powered solely by electricity generated from human waste gas.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-23/poo-powered-car-launched-brisbane-australia-first/8549444
Greg
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Price parity by next year ?
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110619_ubs-study-predicts-electric-car-cost-parity-in-europe-in-2018
Just came back to read this thread but found a train wreck.
Phil A said:
Diver, you berate anyone who gets their rainwater calculation out by a few precent but its ok for professionals to get their spin wrong by 50%?... get real.
I give accurate calculations and explain how to arrive at them for the greater benefit of all. If you want to either comment or question any information that I post, then do it at the appropriate time and in the correct thread so that I and others at least know what you are referring to.
As for the article you posted, the 'tests' were done by an inexperienced new Tesla owner in very cold and difficult driving conditions in hilly terrain. If the article and your follow up comments were posted by a new poster, I would have called troll.
A 50% reduced range in the 'test' conditions described was no surprise, after all, in addition to the hills and the driving conditions, the very cold weather necessitated the car's energy source to also provide initial heating for both the vehicle and the occupants. An electric car's reduced range in cold weather is a known fact and the additional reduced range on hills is just plain common sense.....no matter what vehicle you are in.
Would you have really expected an ICE vehicle to have attained its highway mileage figures over the same course?
An informative blog post about cold weather driving and battery range by a TESLA Model S owner is linked below.
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/cold-weather-driving.64591/
New Nissan Leaf offers a lower priced EV.
Nissan says that its new e-Pedal, which drives the car forward when depressed and brakes when pressure is released, should increase driving efficiency and be all that a driver needs to operate the vehicle for around 90% of urban driving. The Leaf will slow to a halt and can hold itself steady on an incline without the need to depress a brake pedal, of which one is included for emergency or aggressive braking.
Bushwalker
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No indication that the new version of the Leaf has active battery temp management. We placed an order for the Leaf in 2013, but withdrew the order after hearing about the lack of temperature control in hot environments.
Good idea for the e-pedal. The BMW i3 has been doing that since 2014.
2017 Leaf weight has increased by a small amount, but it's weight is relatively high for the size of the vehicle. (1530kg) Should be manufactured from lighter material instead of steel to improve vehicle efficiency.
Lastly, the vehicle range is significantly less than the Chevy Bolt and the Tesla 3. Better than the original version though.
moblet
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From 2018 Nissan Leaf owners in the UK will have an option to connect their car's battery to the grid and profit from its use in load levelling: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/07/electric-cars-key-driving-change-uk-energy-supply-industry
Greg
Member
Interesting stuff, getting "free" electricity.
http://inhabitat.com/nissans-new-ev-ecosystem-could-give-free-power-to-ev-owners/
Morbo
Member
seen something recently, reg fast charge. You charge a capacitor bank fast. This then charges the batteries slow. Capacitor charge essentially could be a short circuit, so its really just limited by the available current. But I think it was a somewhat different capacitor approach, not the usual layer stuff.
Greg
Member
Its EV related but maybe should be in battery advances thread but heck , here it is.
"a new material to double the capacity of the battery anode"
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2017_10/pr0301.htm
