Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
by magicalhippo on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:58AM
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> it charges to 100% every time
Ah, I hadn't picked up on this. My BMW i3 has a built-in buffer so what shows as 100% on the dash is actually about 80%, and similarly for 0% (I verified through the raw data).
Doing true "0-100" definitely does not do the battery any favors.
Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
by goodcanadian on Monday January 25, 2021 @04:12AM
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The leaf also has a built in buffer like that though I don't know the exact numbers.
Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
by theshrike79 on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:33AM
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It also suffers from rapidgate and coldgate both.
Either the battery heats up too much during driving to accept proper charge (no thermal management). Or it's too cold to accept charge (no heating).
Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
by ClumsyPilot on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:34AM
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Why is everything a gate now, this is getting ridiculous.
Is there a website to keep track of all the gates?
Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020
by jsight on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:21AM
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Kind of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%22-gate%22_scandals
It isn't comprehensive, though.
The main problem(s) with the leaf are
- it charges to 100% every time (unless you dig into a menu, turn on analytics and switch to 80%) I never knew a leaf driver that figured this out.
- the battery size is very small, so you need a full charge to get anywhere reliably and/or drain it very low.
- to put any kind of mileage on the car, you need to cycle the battery MANY times. (one cycle might be a day's driving on the leaf, but one cycle on a tesla is a week's driving or more)
I think the leaf would be a perfect car with up to 20 miles of daily driving.
(I owned the same car as OP)