Electric Vehicles

Only available in Japan at the moment, but posted due to the "what happens to the battery? They only last {insert silly low number of years here}" question/comment EV owners hear.

I don’t work for tesla, I promise! But free miles are free miles and you’d be mad not to, if it’s possible.

Brand new machines at the Ravenside Retail Park as part of the new tesla service centre on the A406. These machines have contactless card payment, no app needed. Travelling from east to west, the site is under the flyover section.

50p is very decently priced. This is not on the app yet

Several charging points for electric vehicles at a motorway service station still aren’t hooked up to the power network after connection delays.

good little read, and worth noting she managed in a fairly old model. I do alot of EV miles in an older model also, and its totally fine.

My current EV beef is the price gouging on very slow charging points. Its the same electrons you mad bastards

Ive owned my EV since 2020, ordered in 2019 but held up due to the big sneeze. One of my favourite things about the EV ecosystem is the amount of data available and how you can really use your iphone or android mobile as a satnav or analysis tool for trips for work or something. Ive used Tronity which links to your car via the mobile data connection but unfortunately they are not doing anything for my EV anymore as its a little old.

ABRP is an EV map system which takes into account lots of different data than a normal apple maps or google maps carplay trip. Nearly every built in sat nav should be disregarded as Carplay smashes all of them and there is a debate going on wether car manufacturers even need to put in their own awful satnav systems as nobody uses them anymore. ABRP has live traffic and weather and a whole range of tools like live charger data so you can skip along to the next one, but my favourite one is elevation data. If you get the app and plan a route you can press the route on the screen to bring up the height profile of your trip. This is important because you can save a huge amount of energy by taking a flatter or slower route, or you can plan a charge to take account of a mountain which will inevitably catch many out as they adjust driving habits for their electric drivetrains. Driving through the peak district as I do often can be an amazing experience but you have to take weather and height changes into account if youre on the end of your battery.

You can also get a ODB analytics dongle for most EVs, and connect it to ABRP. Its possible through this plug to recode your led lights, car noises, adjust functions and so on but it gives you better data. If you watch Bjorn Nyland videos he uses various tools. The main point is you cant do this with apple maps!

I think its an essential app.

Not really. Safety wise, its a big problem. But the cost is minimal

How did you celebrate?

I've seen a 2018 Hyundai Ioniq Premium SE fairly local and under £14,000 and under 30kiles. I've no idea what to look out for when buying used.

Any advice or thoughts on used ev's? Does mileage mean much. I suppose battery condition would be the main concern?

Phone and communications titan announces plan to transform its streetside broadband boxes into EV chargers

Renault will cease production of its Zoe electric car on 30 March 2024. It was already clear that there would be no new Zoe generation, but now the date has been set for the end of production at the Flins plant. Zoe has blazed a trail in her time. The…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2148364

EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by 2025::The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.

I'm in the process of renewing my car insurance with Direct Line, and it appears they've added this Zoom EV Benefits Bundle for free.

It's not that exciting, but there's £10 of Octopus Electroverse credit, and 25kWh of Osprey credit included which I've redeemed.

It's great to have this. Being bombarded with USA related EV news which has nearly 0 impact on our lives is pretty tiring.