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They can afford a bit of a range hit. Marketers are still stuck on selling us more range is the only answer. If they could drop $10k off the price by reducing battery capacity and the public could be convinced that 200km is more than enough for a city commuter they’ll sell more.

I watch the roads with interest. So far it’s more common to see a big American pickup than an electric car! But at least there are a few more getting around. Seem plenty of Tesla’s, a few leafs, a couple of i3 and Imiev and one ioniq. Have yet to see a Kona in the wild. The only electric vehicles I’...

I haven’t used petrol powered yard equipment at home for over 5 years. I had a corded mower for a while, then picked up a Ryobi 36v mower second hand. Works well, although it isn’t very powerful so takes 2 cuts in the thickest sections if I’ve left the lawn too long. The 5ah battery is usually enoug...

Maybe they’ll start to label petrol cars when they become rare. Currently it can be safely assumed that a crashed vehicle has diesel or petrol as a fuel unless it has an lpg sticker. Ev’s ate still pretty rare

Economically what doesn't make sense? Endlessly buying bigger battery packs? Economically it doesn’t make sense to buy a massive battery pack if you don’t need the range. The marketers have got hold of range anxiety and driven up EV prices because apparently we all need 400km if range to drive 400k...

Richo wrote: ↑

Wed, 30 Oct 2019, 13:04

Compressed air...

If only we could harness all the hot air in Canberra

The 85kWh battery would make an amazing off grid battery for when the vehicle was parked up ...... I'd love to be able to buy a Kona and work through making a plug and play set up to use that big battery pack in an off grid set up that supplemented a small permanent battery pack that kept the syste...

85kWh battery, where will this end, a battery with more range than the person driving the vehicle or the comfort limit of the passengers? T1 Terry It seems the marketers have cottoned into range anxiety and we have an arms race for the best range. Once everyone recognises they won’t need that range...

The factory ones are probably either rhino or Rola racks with a Hyundai sticker. Try to find out which and you might get them a smidgen cheaper elsewhere. Not that they are slightly different profile so accessories might not be switch between brands. I don’t have experience with EV and roof racks, b...

An e-bike battery is probably the easiest option. Already packaged up, charger available, plenty of options assuming your current battery box would fit the battery.

Work places with solar are still unlikely to cover their energy needs - even if the carpark was added. So having free solar for customers/employees at the employers expense is unlikely to happen. If it concerns you then get as much solar as you can on your house and store the surplus - preferably 1...

A little outside the box thinking, would it be possible to just buy some smaller lead batteries? You mention you don’t need the range. surely two half capacity batteries would be a lot lighter.

I do get the idea of upgrading though!

$600? Lucky my garage isn’t really tall enough for a hoist. Kinda defeats the purpose when you can’t get the vehicle much higher than a jack stand.

Particularly for those who have some experience, how does the braking effect of regenerative braking compare to traditional disc/drum brakes? Especially with reference to RWD vehicles. My understanding is that the front brakes do most of the work in an ICE vehicle and many of us have experience of y...

Nice work. I can guess at all the comments about (lack of) range though!

If you mainly drive on the flat, but love to drive flat-out, then you want regen... Efficiency is not everyone's goal though of course! I guess id fall into the ‘enthusiastic’ driver category, especially if the EV torque is as addictive as everyone says. I’d also be mostly driving in suburban traff...

I had the "high performance" 1500 SS model of this vintage as one of my first cars. Couldn't keep clutches in it if I drove it hard, the gearbox was never a problem though. You could get away with a brass button or ceramic clutch to handle the torque of the electric motor, but the original driving ...

I’m wondering about motors and range etc, but haven’t done any calcs yet. http://www.evmotors.com.au/products/appguide.html https://www.evworks.com.au/netgain-impulse-9-series-dc-motor-suitable-for-veh https://www.evworks.com.au/zeva-mc600sp-mc600sp-motor-controller Pack size ~190Wh/km (including 8...

Thanks. I’d like it to be a low(ish) budget conversion, but don’t want it to be cheap and nasty. The pic isn’t mine, just on off the net. It is in pretty good condition, but the wiring loom is shot, melted wires around the ignition switch and I suspect brittle insulation elsewhere. Otherwise it is i...

A few months ago I purchased a 1969 Mazda 1500. Fairly rare car, but I like the look of it. My plan is to get it registered on its current petrol engine to ensure it is running to a suitable level and then begin the (expected to be) long process to convert to electric. I’m wondering about motors and...

Is it true that lithium batteries are able to be recycled well? I thought I’d heard that, but others have said lithium batteries are going to be a big problem when we start getting lots of old electric cars.

I see Vic have $100 discount and ACT have 20% so hopefully NSW have similar sorts of discount.

I'm all for EV's but just noting that our 6 year old Elantra manual goes down to somewhere like 5.4 l/100 at highway speeds (not sure about A/C use after all this time and up to high 9's around town. That's the exact opposite of my experience - at 50kph my Ranger (and previous Hilux, wife's Prado e...

At this point in time I’d imagine electric cars are really a ‘city’ thing. Short drives, plenty of charging infrastructure etc. the more battery vehicles out there the more infrastructure will get built. The big energy companies know thugs are changing and will work towards supplying what the market...

poprock wrote: ↑

Mon, 01 Apr 2019, 18:16

So the good part is that it almost rules out dodgy backyard repairers.

But still allows you to spend your own time and money repairing a classic or modified vehicle you’ve put blood sweat and tears into.