Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment
by ericd on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:42AM
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You don’t really need fast chargers if your overnight spot has any charging. Ours has been charged almost exclusively on a standard US 120V 15A household outlet - 5 miles/hr of range, but it’s parked for >14 hours a day, so it regains 70+ miles overnight.
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Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment
by eliseumds on Thursday July 14, 2022 @09:22AM
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I don't really need the car on a daily basis, mostly for road trips, and, like the US, Brazil has continental proportions (we think in thousands of kms). The BMW iX is very impressive, there are videos of it doing Sao Paulo > Rio, and half of the way back, without a charge, which is amazing, but that's a best-case path with a considerable number of chargers. Still very pricey though.
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment
by moffkalast on Thursday July 14, 2022 @08:19AM
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Bold of you to assume you won't run out of capacity half a day into your trip lol. At least that's what my calculations usually show.
Re:Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment
by ericd on Thursday July 14, 2022 @09:04AM
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Oh well yeah, for road trips it’s different. But for day to day, 70 miles of charging (on a 300 mile range battery) is enough to keep it so it’s usually topped up, and after a longer day trip where it’s not enough, it’ll get back to full over a few days.