I hear a lot from people whining about how far can an EV go on a charge, considering over 90% of people do less than 80k a day and a lot of them less than 50k, I think it's just a leftover from the very old petroleum vehicles that you had to take to a Service Station to get refuelled and so was annoying to have to leave the home to get a tank full. With EVs being able to charge from home, this problem is removed as you just drive into your vehicle storage facility and plug it in if required. As the technology advances, we will see solar charging introduced, especially in places like Australia with so much Sun. I have solar panels and haven't had a power bill in over a decade, an EV would cost me nothing to charge. If it wasn't for the power of the Fossil fuel Industry back in the 60's and 70's we would all already be driving Evs and for at least 30 years the ICE vehicle would have been a curiosity :). We are now finally going at full speed ahead with getting rid of the useless out of date technology that is the ICE Era. Nothing worse than sitting in peak hour traffic with all the pollution being produced as well as heat. Considering the Electric car was before the Petrol vehicle 200 years ago, it's great to see it's finally catching up and going to take over on the roads. I am going to buy an EV in the next two years as the choice is finally opening up as previously we didn't have much of a selection, great to see a beautiful car like this from Kia as being one of the choices. As a retired Systems Administrator I have been watching the leading edge of technology since the early 70's, some tech takes off and others die very quickly. The PC took a few years to become a household item as did the Automobile, the roads looked a lot different when I was a kid over 60 years ago, hot rods and big V8s as who cared about the cost of fuel lol. Service Stations closed at 11:30am on a Saturday and didn't re-open till Monday morning, who worried about how far you could go on a tankful of fuel back then on a week end ? You planed out a trip that involved week end driving. Funny to hear people wonder how a vehicle will go in hot or cold weather :) how many Fords or Holdens did we see on the side of the road back in the 60's and 70's on the way to the Gold Coast as they over heated from going so slow in our Qld hot weather. For some reason people expect or think any new technology should be free from the same problems ICE has had for many many many decades, cooling on an ICE vehicle is basically exactly the same as it was 100 years ago, only Volkswagen gave us another option of Air-cooled that worked very well, even in Qld :). Australia has a very varied temperature range even in Qld we get Ipswich and Toowoomba having Winters where it can reach below zero or other areas like Winton or Birdsville where mid 40's is a nice summer day, I know as I worked in those areas in the middle of Summer as a Painter, try preparing a Roof in the middle of Summer in Winton before you tell some one it's hot in Brisbane ;) Electric cars will have no problems solving any hot or cold problems thanks to the many decades of cooling or warming that very old ICE technology that produced many hundred degrees of heat whilst running, or could freeze if you forgot to place an anti freeze in the radiator. We have things called insulation these days that work really well, we have Eskies that keep our Beer nice and cold for up to three days with one bag of Ice and no electricity. I have a well insulated home, it stays cool all day inside on a summer day as long as we don't open the doors or windows and let the hot air in, this means a small area like a Vehicle could easily have an insulated area around the batteries that allows through say some technologically advanced gadget like say a thermostat that could open or close a flap that would allow air flow on hot days or close it on cool days with a small amount of battery power used to warm that area if it's a cold day ;). I had a large double brick area under my house back in the 80's that only took a very tiny thermostatically controlled heater to keep at 24C during the Winter and Autumn, this then means the amount of power a vehicle would need to keep the battery pack at it's required minimum or maximum temperature range would be very minimal, especially when stationary/parked or even whilst driving. Did you know that most Lead acid batteries will die during Winter and most Ice vehicles had them just sitting under the bonnet with no insulation or protection from the weather except for the bonnet lol. I wish every manufacturer great success in the future that make EVs, I want to see them all flat out trying to keep up demand as I don't want to see or hear another petrol guzzler on the road in say ten years, as it would be like seeing a Horse and Cart out Bush these days ;)
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Keen to hear about charging and resilience in hot and cold conditions.
Got mine and love it
I hear a lot from people whining about how far can an EV go on a charge, considering over 90% of people do less than 80k a day and a lot of them less than 50k, I think it's just a leftover from the very old petroleum vehicles that you had to take to a Service Station to get refuelled and so was annoying to have to leave the home to get a tank full.
With EVs being able to charge from home, this problem is removed as you just drive into your vehicle storage facility and plug it in if required.
As the technology advances, we will see solar charging introduced, especially in places like Australia with so much Sun.
I have solar panels and haven't had a power bill in over a decade, an EV would cost me nothing to charge.
If it wasn't for the power of the Fossil fuel Industry back in the 60's and 70's we would all already be driving Evs and for at least 30 years the ICE vehicle would have been a curiosity :).
We are now finally going at full speed ahead with getting rid of the useless out of date technology that is the ICE Era.
Nothing worse than sitting in peak hour traffic with all the pollution being produced as well as heat.
Considering the Electric car was before the Petrol vehicle 200 years ago, it's great to see it's finally catching up and going to take over on the roads.
I am going to buy an EV in the next two years as the choice is finally opening up as previously we didn't have much of a selection, great to see a beautiful car like this from Kia as being one of the choices.
As a retired Systems Administrator I have been watching the leading edge of technology since the early 70's, some tech takes off and others die very quickly.
The PC took a few years to become a household item as did the Automobile, the roads looked a lot different when I was a kid over 60 years ago, hot rods and big V8s as who cared about the cost of fuel lol.
Service Stations closed at 11:30am on a Saturday and didn't re-open till Monday morning, who worried about how far you could go on a tankful of fuel back then on a week end ? You planed out a trip that involved week end driving.
Funny to hear people wonder how a vehicle will go in hot or cold weather :) how many Fords or Holdens did we see on the side of the road back in the 60's and 70's on the way to the Gold Coast as they over heated from going so slow in our Qld hot weather.
For some reason people expect or think any new technology should be free from the same problems ICE has had for many many many decades, cooling on an ICE vehicle is basically exactly the same as it was 100 years ago, only Volkswagen gave us another option of Air-cooled that worked very well, even in Qld :).
Australia has a very varied temperature range even in Qld we get Ipswich and Toowoomba having Winters where it can reach below zero or other areas like Winton or Birdsville where mid 40's is a nice summer day, I know as I worked in those areas in the middle of Summer as a Painter, try preparing a Roof in the middle of Summer in Winton before you tell some one it's hot in Brisbane ;)
Electric cars will have no problems solving any hot or cold problems thanks to the many decades of cooling or warming that very old ICE technology that produced many hundred degrees of heat whilst running, or could freeze if you forgot to place an anti freeze in the radiator.
We have things called insulation these days that work really well, we have Eskies that keep our Beer nice and cold for up to three days with one bag of Ice and no electricity.
I have a well insulated home, it stays cool all day inside on a summer day as long as we don't open the doors or windows and let the hot air in, this means a small area like a Vehicle could easily have an insulated area around the batteries that allows through say some technologically advanced gadget like say a thermostat that could open or close a flap that would allow air flow on hot days or close it on cool days with a small amount of battery power used to warm that area if it's a cold day ;).
I had a large double brick area under my house back in the 80's that only took a very tiny thermostatically controlled heater to keep at 24C during the Winter and Autumn, this then means the amount of power a vehicle would need to keep the battery pack at it's required minimum or maximum temperature range would be very minimal, especially when stationary/parked or even whilst driving.
Did you know that most Lead acid batteries will die during Winter and most Ice vehicles had them just sitting under the bonnet with no insulation or protection from the weather except for the bonnet lol.
I wish every manufacturer great success in the future that make EVs, I want to see them all flat out trying to keep up demand as I don't want to see or hear another petrol guzzler on the road in say ten years, as it would be like seeing a Horse and Cart out Bush these days ;)
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