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I’m sure you’ve seen that video of a #Rivian R1T plowing through a guardrail and through several concrete barriers during a crash test, which went viral last year. But did you know that the story is—as always—more complicated than simply “EVs heavy, heavy bad”?

This is a really good video on the topic. I love that they consulted *actual experts* in this field to explain the situation.

#cars #video #ev #safety #engineering

youtube.com/watch?v=x3sSFBb0IL

Battery capacity loss in an #EV : my 2023 #Kia #EV6. I don't have measurements from new, unfortunately, I bought the ODB2 scanner after the first year. However, the manufacturer declares 77.4 kWh total capacity.

After 1 year, 30k km: capacity on full charge reported as 72.5 kWh, but internal BMS charge level shows 96.5% - scaling this, I get 75.2 kWh capacity, a drop of 3%.

After 2 years, 46k km: capacity after full charge reported as 69.4 kWh, internal BMS charge level again on 96.5% - scaled this gives capacity of 71.9 kWh. That's a drop of 7% from new; 4.5% drop from the previous year.

In theory, the battery should now be "settled" and not changing significantly in capacity until it gets much older.

The drop is still small enough that I don't think I would notice it without measuring.

Petrol Stations 🆚 Car Charging Locations

shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/petro

Journalists love context-free numbers - things that sound large and scary, but without any helpful information to allow you to judge their significance.

Here's a good example from a BBC article about Electric Vehicle subsidies:

There are around 1.3 million electric cars on Britain's roads but currently only around 82,000 public charging points.

Bloody hell! That's rubbish! Bring down the government! Woke nonsense!

OK, let's take a moment to contextualise those number.

There are about 34 million cars on the road. About 1.3 million cars are pure electric. So, about 32,680,000 dinosaur-juice cars.

How many petrol pumps do you think there are in the UK?

Have a guess.

Back in 2021, the BBC reported on the decline in petrol stations:

If this prediction is correct it is a death sentence for many of the 8,380 petrol stations in the UK.

Wait…! So there are 0.06 public chargers per EV, but only 0.0002 petrol stations per fossil fuel car?!!?

Lots of EV chargers will have multiple charging heads - allowing two or more vehicles to be charged at once. Similarly, petrol stations often have multiple pumps.

Let's assume that every EV charger can only do one car at a time, and every fuel station has 10 pumps. That's still a hell of a lot more chargers per EV than pumps per petrol car.

Of course, the elephant in the room is charging time. Electric Vehicle take much longer to recharge than a petrol car takes to refuel. As a rough average, an EV takes 30 minutes to get to 80% full. That will depend on the speed of the charger and the capacity of the battery. It takes maybe 10% of that time to fill a petrol car from empty to full.

But petrol cars always need to be refilled in public. Most EVs are recharged in private. Sat on a driveway or plugged into a lamp-post overnight, they start the day full. Given the average journey length of under 10 miles, the typical EV will never need to use public charger!

There are around a million home EV chargers installed. Around 2/3rds of home have access to off-street parking which would allow a private charger to be installed. That just doesn't happen with petrol. You can't install a petrol pump at home.

All of those EVs will start the day with the capacity to take 20 average trips before needing to recharge. If any of those trips end at a supermarket, work car park, or anywhere else with a charger, they'll start their next journey full.

Suppose that you do decide to drive >200 miles in a single journey. You should be taking a 15 minute break every 2 hours - but let's say you go for 4 hours, taking your car from full to empty. At which point, you probably need a piss and want to stretch your legs. Plug in at a service station, go to the loo, have an overpriced coffee and disappointing sandwich, walk back to the car and - oh look - it's practically full.

Does the country need more public chargers? Probably, yes. Are chargers all concentrated in wealthy suburbs or evenly distributed? Who knows. What are the current occupancy levels of public chargers? Those would all be excellent questions to research and publish.

Presenting context-free numbers doesn't help people understand the scale of the problem.

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Journalists love context-free numbers - things that sound large and scary, but without any helpful information to allow you to judge their significance.

Here's a good example from a BBC article about Electric Vehicle subsidies:

There are around 1.3 million electric cars on Britain's roads but currently only around…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/petro

#car #ev #news

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@KiwiEV our height (170’s) just works. Mate (high 180s) can’t get the seat down/back enough. 😅
Moar EV convertibles are needed! Can imagine going through forests or alongside beaches and just listening to nature. #EV

Went to the Seattle Space Needle today to check out the #Slate electric truck in person. Initial impression on sitting in it is that it feels solid and looks clean. Very comfortable and had lots of headroom. Was expecting it to come off a bit flimsy or feel cheaply built and it definitely does not.

It had a custom light blue Space Needle themed wrap, which looked sharp with the white cab, and light gray interior panels.

Navigace pro elektroauto

Navigace pro elektroauto má svá specifika. Kromě obvyklých parametrů totiž musí do plánování trasy zahrnout také zastávky pro nabíjení. Obvykle se o to stará palubní navigace, která má také přístup k datům z auta, ale zrovna naše auto ji nemá a já obecně s navigacemi dodávanými přímo automobilkou nebyl nikdy moc spokojený. Proto jsem se rozhodl vyzkoušet, jak si populární navigace pro mobil dokážou s elektroautem poradit.

#ABRP #AmiGO #electromobility #elektroauto #ev #GoogleMaps #HereWeGo #Mapycom #navigace #Sygic #TomTom #Waze

https://blog.eischmann.cz/2025/07/14/navigace-pro-elektroauto/
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EVs are nice (#Farage is not)
Nobody is forced to have one.
If your employer dispensed petroleum free at your workplace, so each evening your car went home full of fuel, you'd find it tempting.
If petrol dripped slowly off your house roof every time the sun shone on you you'd be (terrified, but) odd if it didn't encourage you to catch it for traction power.

Both often apply - by analogy - to EVs.

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I do an informal survey of cars in car parks when I go there.
Basically looking for green flashes on the number plate, = EV and older ones before that identifier came in.
In the spaces opposite the coffee shop (I commonly walk to) over 3 years we have gone from rare sightings to very often one EV and sometimes 2.

I live on a road which is a main route into the city. I like it, but at a couple of times a day it is a bit noisy and there's a bit of a smell of petroleum.

It went amazingly quiet during lockdown.

As combustion vehicles are gradually replaced by electric I've been listening and sniffing for a change, and I think it is here.
Not yet large, but coming on.

(The new rubbish trucks being electric made a separate and particular difference, much appreciated.)

#EV#noise#smell

This is pretty cool tech.

Not sure it could survive #Montreal snowplows but great for more southern areas.

Plugs in the sidewalk curbs for #EV charging in front of your house if you have no driveway.

Kerbo Charge - EV Charging Cable Channel

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Nice article about growth in solar power. It is good to see the progress.

I am a big fan of both solar and EVs, both 4 wheel ones and two wheel ones. We need to get off fossil fuels, and the sooner, the better.

#EV #Solar #GlobalWarming #GoodNews #FossilFuels #Politics

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The New Yorker · 4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a MomentBy Bill McKibben