This article says of Tesla " a Model 3 LR will be able to add 75 miles of driving range in as little at 5 minutes." cleantechnica.com/2019/06/10/top-gear-declares-tesla-model-3-fastest-charging-car-in-the-world/
OK that assumes the best car and charging stuff currently (haha) available but I suspect it will have improved somewhat by 2035 (maybe even sooner).
And an article here www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/will-dc-fast-charging-harm-electric-car-batteries/ suggests that ...
"thanks to advanced battery management systems (BMS) that carefully control temperature, they are leaps and bounds longer lasting than the mobile phone and laptop batteries that most consumers are used to.
"The life expectancy of the Leaf's battery is about 70-80 percent of capacity after 10 years of normal use. Frequent fast chargers--more than once or twice per day--can expect performance on the lower end of that range"
I understand that even in my old-tech (effectively 2012 design) EV the "top and bottom" cells of the battery are not used, or at least are kept aside to be assigned in the event of degradation of other cells.
Of course EVs have heating, as Bromps said use of these obviously uses your available energy just as it does now. At a standstill my car doesn't have an engine running but everything else still works. Aren't there ICE cars which do that too???
I see ore ICE vehicles stranded at the side of the road than EVs. Maybe to do with the vastly more complex motors that they have, all those pistons, gears and spark plugs!! :-)
Rather annoyingly I had to have my rear brakes pads and discs replaced last week, at 50k. One side was not worn at all (as most EV braking is regenerative and the brakes themselves are hardly used). They needed replacement because the caliper had stuck on. It wasn't even seized...they said it probably stuck do to lack of use.
But what's becoming clear that judgements and opinions are often based on a severe lack of info about EVs, which surprises me here in a motoring forum.
Last edited by: smokie on Sat 8 Feb 20 at 15:27
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