buzznwood
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I would say the rant applied to all EV's. Most of the marketing push on EVS has been charge at home ready to go when you wake up, once we got to 200 mile range EV's the commutes & local trip was pretty much covered and that marketing push should have ended it is really the road trip that needs to be solved now.I kind of philisophically agree with this idea as well. I know nothing about Straightpipes, but if you do, I wonder if they advocate for this across all EVs or just the MME?
Which of course where we need better testing and information being shown on the window sticker what we have now from the EPA / WLTP just doesn't cut it. Just take something as simple as charging rate where you have peak charge rate vs sustained.
The mach-e has 150kw charging but it does it for such a miniscule length of time that in reality 150kw is meaningless beyond a marketing check box, where as an Audi e-tron can do 150kw for ages, plug in at 0% and you get 150kw all they way to 80%, plug in at 70% get 150kw to 80% that is the sort of consistency you want and what I would class as being a true 150kw DCFC charging speed yet both are currently advertised as being 150kw DCFC .
Early adopters may well look into all the details but the masses will not, while it won't be an issue for some states come 2030 for some there is either going to be a lot of very disappointed people getting a BEV or a large uptake in used ICE vehicles and out of state plates. Sure 2030 is a long way away but the push for 2030 will be to bring down the price of BEVs to that of similar ICE so all those cheaper entry level BEV are going to be pretty similar to what we have now when it comes to range and charging times and for a lot of people it will make it worse than the ICE it replaces.
People have a tendency to make purchasing decisions and justify those based on the 10% use case not the 90% so adjusting the testing to cover that 10% use of case of a road trip goes a long way to improving BEVS or a least allowing people to make informed choices, there is going to be plenty of people happy with the 90% use case city car.
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