Think like: It is not the speed that kills, it is the sudden stop.
Like the VW automatic transmissions. Here in Europe, no one will trim VW with diesel and automatic transmission because the torque will kill the transmission.
Passat 2.0 TDI SCR 7-speed is a diesel automatic transmission that is offered as standard. What are you talking about?
Majority of diesel cars in Germany, AFAIK, are sold with automatic transmission.
> no one will trim VW with diesel and automatic transmission because the torque will kill the transmission
That's just because it's a crap transmission or it's tuned to be crap.
Two other tricks of the EV6 are:
- 18 minute 10-80% charge time in ideal conditions (which is very good)
- Vehicle to load capability. You can run appliances off the battery. If you're desperate you can charge another EV (but it will be slow).
Tow charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaGVoB4Zn-Y
Another tow charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gxi4sn3KXg
Gravity charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k5wAaDZw1o
Having to wait almost 20 minutes on a 60 minutes commute is far from ideal.
That time is very good when one recharges at home or during a long trip or at destination (office / mall / etc) while doing other things. But in the last case it takes away a charging spot until the owner comes back. How is that managed now?
You will either need to only charge once a few days, or if you are lucky, charge overnight at your home or during work. No car will need to be charged every 60 minutes.
Yes, you'll need have enough battery to get there or charge before you leave.
> That time is very good when one recharges at home
You won't get that charge time at home unless you decide to put in a 350 kW charger at your house, which will be expensive.
An 18 minute charge time on a fast charger can support about three cars per hour. There still need to be better batteries that can sustain higher C-rates to make fuller use of the existing 350 kW chargers and future 400 kW chargers and beyond.
For a future, high C-rate battery with 100 kWh usable capacity, 10 to 80% would be 70 kWh. If it could charge 10-80% at a flat 350 kW then that would take 12 minutes. At 400 kW it would take 10.5 minutes.
Battery swaps can currently be done in 6 minutes. Swapping in a 100 kWh battery charged to 90% in 6 minutes is equivalent to a flat 0-90% charge curve at 900 kW:
The fast charger is for road trips - at the moment, the number and reliability of high-speed charge points is probably a bigger constraint than the relative speed of this model versus others.
In a city where people park on the streets because there are no or not enough personal parking slots (very common in Europe, don't know in the USA,) it's either a (metered?) charger for every public parking slot or a boring 20 minutes stop every few days.
As for the V2L — thus I have used lot more. Have had power failures at home where I switched all the critical systems to the car, have “taken electricity” to my father in law, have use it to power tools outside (mitre saw, for example) and boiled tea with a 2.7kW kettle.
I know a lot of people that love their EVs for daily commute. And before I started working from home full time, had been considering it. At this point, for the tank every couple weeks that I use, I'd just assume stick to petrol and keep my car longer.