Posted on 12/09/2023 8:07:58 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III
Charging problems. Every time I 'charge' my gasoline SUV, it takes 5-6 minutes. If I do a thorough job of checking under the hood, a few minutes more.
Nowhere in the Drive-By Media will we see the damage done to EV batteries with fast charging. Most charging manuals (small phones to larger items), to this day, recommends regular charging times, to not let the battery drop below 20%, and do not charge over 80%.
Last year Finland announced a new EV charger that would charge the EV battery in 15 minutes. No word on the immediate or lifetime damage to the battery.
Ain’t Communism wonderful.
A friend of ours who owns a Volvo dealership says he sells more reconditioned old Volvos than new hybrid Volvos. Also says (in private) that he never own a Volvo newer than a 2007.
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Being fairly new and cutting edge technology, this is to be expected. The more complicated it is, the greater the chance of a failure.
not to worry
most of us will be on a bus anyway
I read that you don't want to use Tesla superchargers too often. It'll destroy your battery.
Such improvements! Last week it was 80% problems.
Fast charging any lithium ion battery will reduce it’s capacity (EVs and phones). The more you do it, the sooner you will have to replace the battery. Also recommendations are to keep the charge level between 20% and 80% for longest life. Doing that means you actually get 60% of the advertised range.
Stay away from any old Volvo with the V6 engine made by Renault. They are junk. Your friend will probably tell you that.
The old 4 cylinder Volvos were rock solid.
I can’t even afford an electric golf cart.
Probably some truth in that, but I’d be more worried about temperature increases in the battery pack and possible fire hazard situations first. One would hope that the designers have built-in protections and sensors to look for that, but you never know just how close to the edge they operate.
“I can’t even afford an electric golf cart.”
A walksmobile is supposed to be the best, if you can handle it.
So I’ve been doing it wrong charging my cell phone battery by giving it a full 100% and running down to 1% before recharging again. Will it make any difference with the same battery to switch to the 80% - 20% range now or my battery has already been ‘trained’ to the previously mentioned range ?
They are supposed to be simpler.
Fewer moving parts...electric motors etc.
Many problems are arising from poor designs and body parts not fitting: problems solved decades ago and no reason for them to be occurring.
These are still expensive toys with limited application.
EV’s have the same feature. You can set it to charge to 80% or whatever and the time of day you want it charged to that level (I.e. departure time at 7:00 am) and leave those settings enabled until you have a long trip. The night before a trip you set it to charge to 100% and still have a departure time. Then in the morning when you head out on the trip you disable the scheduled charging feature (so that when you stop at a roadside charger your car will charge immediately).
Volvo has not made a good vehicle since the 2.4 liter 4 cylinder models in the 1970s.
I had one of those.
It was a tank.
I have a buddy in the coldest part of Wisconsin and he says his Tesla has zero problems with the cold affecting the battery and that anyone saying that is just an anti-Elon leftist
Does he park his car in a heated garage...?
In my experience, at three years cellphone batteries are somewhere between 30 and 50% of their original capacity, and that is with charging every three or four days.
If EV batteries follow the same trajectory they would be borderline unusable in three years given that you are not supposed to use more than 60% of their capacity in the first place.
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