What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery health?

Re:What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery... by fencepost on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:09PM (#24318146)

This depends a lot on where you are. In the US most travel is pretty local just like yours, but just the state I live in is more than 3x the size of the Netherlands (~150k km2 vs ~42k km2) and it's not that uncommon to have need to travel to areas of adjacent states. At least twice a month I'm at customer offices that are 40+ km away, so a short range combined with possible winter capacity reductions could be a real concern.

Also, if I'm driving with what I call the "idiot light" (low fuel) on, then I'd best go fill the tank. When that warning appears if I have less than 50 km of range I'd be surprised. A low range BEV would feel to me like always having that light on.

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Re:What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery... by theshrike79 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:04PM (#24319020)

Americans, in my experience, tend to do some really crazy drives. Some people just casually might drive 2-3 hours to some random restaurant and the same amount back.

In many European countries, that would be a border-to-border trip.

But as the saying goes: Europeans think 100 miles is a long trip and Americans think that 100 years is old =)

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Re:What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery... by fencepost on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:00AM (#24328636)

The driving to a restaurant happens, but it may just be an excuse (kind of like private pilots flying somewhere for a hamburger). The restaurant isn't the reason for the trip.

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