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They quote 25 min for charging 'on a 100kW charger' (not the same thing as being 100kW capable). Compare with 33 min on a 50kW charger and you might conclude it is only pulling the CHAdeMO standard's max 62.5kW. i.e. the talk of 100kW is fluff.

There is guidance on cold weather storage in the handbook.

Funnily enough I was watching the launch video yesterday. 2012. hmmm. Is there some over-promise issues going on?

But it is a double risk. Not only are tesla's earnings at higher volumes unknown, but no-one has yet stopped to discuss the impact of competition. Tesla is small and nimble and has responded far quicker than conventional VMs, but small and nimble only gives you a market advantage until the...

Well, perhaps that is shareholder bias. The article is over-optimistic, not for what it says but, of course, what it fails to say. The elephant due in the room, so to speak!

Thanks, for responses and the redirect. Copied post there too.

I was looking at TSLA as an investment opportunity. I don't get it. It has market capitalisation of $26bn, but assets of only $1bn. Plus its borrowing to equity is over x2. A good plan for the future, new product line-up and market position mitigates the b/e ratio and maybe doubles the...

I was looking at TSLA as an investment opportunity. I don't get it. It has market capitalisation of $26bn, but assets of only $1bn. Plus its borrowing to equity is over x2. A good plan for the future, new product line-up and market position mitigates the b/e ratio and maybe doubles the...

I imagine the issue will be that as the energy is converted to local AC and it is a country-wide effect, those networks coming under sudden heavy loads with a weak supply will see their generating AC shift frequency. Where the areas power outputs are merged the system will automatically shut...

The load defines the current, not the battery. You mean at a reduced internal impedance, perhaps? :mrgreen:

Wouldn't local Nissan dealer offer to loan you a vehicle that can tow a trailer, perhaps? I agree that you have been left our in the lurch there by Nissan and can rightfully expect some help. If your demands are modest, they are in no place to complain. Depends how adventurous you are. You...

Hence it is in the 'off topic' forum! You can't talk about Leafs here in this forum. Leafs are 'off topic' in a non-Leaf discussion forum! :lol:

The market hasn't really decided on much just yet. EVs are far from mainstream nor a mature product.

That's not what I have heard in practice. Strange. I thought that was what the discussion was about? If it's not about price, and you didn't seem to worry about weight, then what is the discussion about? I dare say that's what the general consensus is. But if *I* can buy NiMH at that sort of...

Our gas boiler had a problem a few years ago. I turned on all the electrical appliances in the house (unnecessarily) all the lights on, etc.. With a supporting couple of fan heaters upstairs, the whole house pretty much kept to 20C with 0C outside! If the electricity is cheap enough and...

OK, so I was talking about lithium phosphate and used the wrong abbreviation for you. Rather than address that, could you find ANY Li cell at 25c per Wh?

I'd just prefer to use my money for what I choose to use it for, but it's common practice for the auto industry to only provide what IT thinks customers want. Why change just because they are EVs? I don't expect to see what I want, but one can but dream. At least give me an option for LiTiO...

If that is an argument to say multiple parallel smaller cells are in some way more reliable for high power work than one large cell, I'd have to take that on advice as I'd doubt it. But in any case, let's look at NiMH tech versus Li like this:- I buy plenty of those 'eneloop' type batteries...

It's not the ones you can see with their lights off that are the problem.... if you get my drift....

Yep. As 2k says, driving style. Just simple, plain repeatability kicks in too, unless you run with precise driving styles and conditions over many many miles. In fact, in my real hypermiling days, I would get a +-4% variation, day to day, with no other variables in. I had a conversation with a...