Another fire accident in South Korea

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Recoil45 said:
The problem with the whole EV market is advertising the range taking the battery from 100 to 0. If the industry was honest they world advertise the “Recommended” range as 80-20% capacity with a “flex/emergency” range of 100-0%. But they won’t... That would bypass emotion with logic.
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Taking your point further, I've not seen a fossil car sold by its range in a very long time. They tell you about its economy (say) 7L/100km city cycle and 5.5L/100km Highway cycle. If you ask the salesman, they might tell you it's got a 40L, 60L or 80L tank and that's it.

My Kona EV averages 13kWh/100km City, and 16.2kWh/100km Highway. It has a 64kWh " electron tank".

So, now I don't care about 100% to 0% range, I just drive it like I drove the old fossil and follow the ABC rule of EV driving.
 
Telek said:
Is that just for the battery, or in total? I.e. if battery and cabin heat are running, will that push it above 75kW from the DC charger?
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Under ideal conditions (warm battery and down at 30% SoC) I've never seen more than 76kW when I use the 350kW chargers. And that dropped back to 74kW pretty quickly.
Bjorn Nyland did a few videos as well and I never saw him get better than 76kW when testing the car.
Btw, that rate drops off once you get to around 60% and you never get it if the battery is cold.
 
syntaxfx said:
So, now I don't care about 100% to 0% range, I just drive it like I drove the old fossil and follow the ABC rule of EV driving.
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Gosh, lucky guy, driving a few times during the European winter, I haven't gone below the average of 20 yet, occasionally seeing a little over 19. I look forward to spring weather :)
 
Tomek said:
Gosh, lucky guy, driving a few times during the European winter, I haven't gone below the average of 20 yet, occasionally seeing a little over 19. I look forward to spring weather :)
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Yeah, it never gets desperately cold here :).
For winter range indications in Europe, I'd look at what Bjorn Nyland got from the Kona on a winter test run. He seems to run a fair sort of test on the cars he writes up.
 
Very much the same weather as here in Hawkes Bay. My cabin heater PTC will never get used as the heat pump always is sufficient.
 
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