434 miles on a charge? What time of year and what conditions? My friend has a Tesla and it’s rated about 323 miles per charge. In the winter he is lucky to get 225-235 Miles per charge....then has to look for another charging station, etc.
15 minutes is probably to 80% charge at most.
“In the winter he is lucky to get 225-235 Miles per charge....then has to look for another charging station, etc.”
Probably charges at home.
Exactly!
No AC in the summer, drive 55.
No heat in the winter, drive 40.
Still would get less than 200 miles per charge.
Now the question:
What power source is used to charge most electric cars?
Single phase power because that is what is available in residential areas.
They don’t put 480/60/3 phase power in residential homes.
If they did then you could run a hell of an electric charging system.
220/60/1 won’t do much as we’ve seen so far!
“434 miles on a charge? What time of year and what conditions? My friend has a Tesla and it’s rated about 323 miles per charge. In the winter he is lucky to get 225-235 Miles per charge....then has to look for another charging station, etc.”
My neighbor, who knows everything about anything and is never wrong brought an EV (I forget the name, but it was not a Tesla). Six months after he purchased it, there was a major recall due to a battery issue. However, there were not enough replacements and so the manufacturer brought the car back for the original purchase less six months wear and tear.
Instead of learning his lesson, he brought another EV (Ford Mustang). A year after he brought it, the battery would no longer hold a charge. The car was at the dealer for repairs for a month. Even though the EV has been repaired, his wife admits that the battery does not get nearly as many miles per charge in the real world as it does in the laboratory under controlled conditions. This past Labor Day Weekend, they drove ~200 miles to the beach, which is well within range of a fully charged battery — except when a four-hour trip takes six hours due to heavy traffic and heavy air-conditioning use due to an end-of-summer heat wave. At about the 3/4 mark to their destination, they went searching for a charging station. At the first station they found, two of the chargers were broken and two were in use with two EVs already in line. At the next charging station, one charger was out of order, and the other was in use. They waited 35 minutes for their turn, and then needed over an hour to charge to 80% at this level 2 charge station. No thanks. I’ll stick with an ICE.
Note also, it depends on the WEIGHT. Full load in a car? That drops. In a truck, if you’re pulling a boat? Forget it.