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udidwht wrote:
There is no EV car today who gets close to it's claimed distance driven before charge is required. Not by a long shot.
I don’t know. Depends where you drive I guess. Driving in the BC interior highways it’s pretty easy to get rated EPA range. Slower speed limits, lots of little towns. Not so much pulling our travel trailer. :). LOL. Drops to about half. Meh. Works for us.
Cheers.bgum wrote:
With the poor quality control we see in RV'S today this will never be seen on our highways.
I think we will. On the shoulder after the batteries are ripped out from under it by a gator.pianotuna wrote:
udidwht wrote:
There is no EV car today who gets close to it's claimed distance driven before charge is required. Not by a long shot.
That would depend on the speed and a half dozen other factors.
The article below tests EV's at 70 mph.
The fourth line shows a 2021 Porsche which gets 30% more range than the EPA figures. 293 miles vs epa of 225.
The Ford Mustang also betters the EPA numbers as does the Ionic (but only by a nose).
https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/
I guess your shot is a little short? * grin *
Not at all. Both are not close to 'real world driving' scenarios. Electric has a long way to go before being truly considered a viable replacemnt for gas. We'll have cam less engines before that happens.udidwht wrote:
There is no EV car today who gets close to it's claimed distance driven before charge is required. Not by a long shot.
That would depend on the speed and a half dozen other factors.
The article below tests EV's at 70 mph.
The fourth line shows a 2021 Porsche which gets 30% more range than the EPA figures. 293 miles vs epa of 225.
The Ford Mustang also betters the EPA numbers as does the Ionic (but only by a nose).
https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/
I guess your shot is a little short? * grin *- There is no EV car today who gets close to it's claimed distance driven before charge is required. Not by a long shot.
- And of course, once you drive 450 miles, you have no battery power left for your camping needs till a day or 2 of charging later.
In reality, they built an electric vehicle with an expanding solar panel roof, that just so happens to have some camping gear in the back. way2roll wrote:
valhalla360 wrote:
pianotuna wrote:
Hi wa8yxm,
2 to 3 days to fully charge from empty.
top speed 75 mph
453 miles (730 km) on a sunny day while reaching up to a range of 372 miles (600 km) when cloudy.
That's about how far my class C goes on a full tank of fuel.
Reminds me of the old idea in design:
- You can have high quality.
- You can have big.
- You can have low cost.
Pick any 2.
Being a student design project, I would expect graphs showing range under a variety of speeds & conditions.
The exception being high quality and low cost. Never see that pairing in RV's.
It might be a very simple tear drop but you can do it.
The point is without providing the assumptions regarding range, speed and charging times, providing those details independent can be highly misleading if people assume it's 450miles per day at 75mph and do it again the next day.valhalla360 wrote:
pianotuna wrote:
Hi wa8yxm,
2 to 3 days to fully charge from empty.
top speed 75 mph
453 miles (730 km) on a sunny day while reaching up to a range of 372 miles (600 km) when cloudy.
That's about how far my class C goes on a full tank of fuel.
Reminds me of the old idea in design:
- You can have high quality.
- You can have big.
- You can have low cost.
Pick any 2.
Being a student design project, I would expect graphs showing range under a variety of speeds & conditions.
The exception being high quality and low cost. Never see that pairing in RV's.pianotuna wrote:
Hi wa8yxm,
2 to 3 days to fully charge from empty.
top speed 75 mph
453 miles (730 km) on a sunny day while reaching up to a range of 372 miles (600 km) when cloudy.
That's about how far my class C goes on a full tank of fuel.
Reminds me of the old idea in design:
- You can have high quality.
- You can have big.
- You can have low cost.
Pick any 2.
Being a student design project, I would expect graphs showing range under a variety of speeds & conditions.- Neat project. But - RV life as it is with conventional ICE's already has it's share of concessions and contingencies including redundant power systems. Even with today's concessions you can run til near out of fuel, fuel up in a few minutes and be off. These EV's are nothing but concessions. The full focus is EV/Solar power and everything else - time, comfort, travel habits, destination planning - everything - takes a back seat (pardon the pun) to the method of power and all the limits and compensations it brings. Which is the total opposite of what RV life is supposed to be about - the total comforts of home anywhere and anytime you want. I won't touch on the debate about what problems these vehicles actually solve (or don't solve) in terms of ecological benefits. I just can't see me camping in that thing and enjoying it despite whatever claimed benefit it's supposed to have over today's efficient ICE's.
