Inconvenient facts about electric vehicles from a Tesla Owner (4chan copypasta)
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Source: http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/366827832/inconvenient-facts-about-electric-vehicles-from-a
- They immediately lose 10% of their total battery capacity permanently. Google “tesla range loss” if you don’t believe me. Tesla warranty only covers more than 30% capacity loss up to 100k miles so the average 10% loss within the first year (I lost it within the first 3000 miles) is completely within spec.
- Cold weather destroys range. So if you live in the north expect to lose about 33% of your range on days the temp drops below 40 degrees.
- Driving faster than 60 to 65 mph destroys range. If you drive 80 mph expect to get about about 75 miles using 50% of your battery capacity. Get ready to be cursed regularly on the freeway if you drive 65 mph.
- You’re instructed to not charge it to more than 80% capacity or let it drop below 20% capacity or it damages the battery. So you really only have 60% of the capacity to work with.
- Real world range is 66% of whatever the battery shows. If my battery says I have 198 miles to 0% that means I have 132 real miles.
- Supercharging is 90% as expensive as gasoline and damages your battery and takes more than an hour.
- Anything that heats up the battery is bad for its health. Ie supercharging, parking the car in the sun, doing multiple fast launches.
So take my “long range” tesla which has 330 miles range new. It lost more 10% of that range within 2 months of ownership and now shows 290 miles range at 100% charge. Furthermore I’m not supposed to charge it to 100% or let it drop below 20% so my range is now 60% of 290 miles so something like 180 miles. Also real world mileage is 2/3 of that range so I only get something like 120 miles usable range which means I can’t drive further than 60 to 75 miles away from home.
I was an electric car enthusiast and owned converted gas cars more than fifteen years ago. I concur with all of these points. My cars were lead acid though and had a 25 mile practical range. They were only any good for local use. you could charge my cars from an ordinary mains socket, although it took a few hours for a full charge.
It seems to me that if everyone had electric cars, they would not be able to capriciously join convoys or even move from one city to another without planning their journey carefully around charging. The tech is perfect for limiting people's movement. That's why it is being adopted in my opinion and why they are trying to phase out gas cars.
Not to mention we are not in control of the power grid to charge at will. That rationing is coming too.
Yes, of course, and Tesla could send a message out to the cars as well to limit their range. There are so many ways to limit and monitor electric cars. I did not appreciate this years ago.
The last five years have certainly opened my eyes into how much control we have given them over us. At least a Tesla is cool - imagine falling for a Prius!!
Hey don't bag on Prius. That shit is hybrid so it still runs on gas at incredible mpgs, and relatively low cost brand new.