Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average. (insideevs.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be careful with range estimates. You can lose 40% of the range in the cold, for example. And another 30% at highway speeds. Plus you can't charge at exactly 0%, so you want a 10% buffer or so. Assuming you never want to drive further than 100km, you want an EV with a rated 260km of range at least. That shouldn't be difficult with modern EVs, but you'll want to avoid older EVs.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Good to know, since we will hit -40 here regularly over winter.

The Ford midsize pickup they're talking about might be more battery than I need even with that, but it's looking like the only reasonably priced offering.