Electric Vehicles EVs

They’re huge things.

112kWh battery pack and 5m long.

Just sat in one of these at a trade fair in Barcelona; it is indeed frikkin ginormous.

Door-slam quality needs some work tho…

Do you get to drive it in this 'testing'? Acceleration looks brutal and unnerving in videos

If I do, it will be on a chassis dyno. Did notice a couple of bits of poor build quality at a quick glance.

If I do, it will be on a chassis dyno.

Sounds exciting. What do you do?

https://llewellyn.substack.com/p/a-lentil-as-a-force-for-change-ba2

It makes sense when I think about it now, but the Tesla sentry mode is a big battery drain.
Was wondering what was draining the battery so much, the sentry mode which basically keeps the infotainment and cameras alive draws 250w an hour, so 6kw a day.
Turned it off, and planning to turn it on only when needed.

Two things worth considering;

1. If you have a garage / driveway, you can add your house as a
   favourite location to sat nav and enable the option that *dis*ables
   sentry mode when at a favourite location
   
2. There's now an option to disable camera based sentry (if you have parking sensors) which then only enables sentry if someone touches / hits your car
   
   

Is it conceivable or even does this exist already. Two plugs one end either goes into a charge point and the other a single plug to go into the car

Why would you need it and would you have a live end swinging free?

You mean plug into two separate 3 pin outlets to get a potential 26A of current?

If you are talking AC charging isn’t the limiting factor the AC/DC converter in the car?

Yes, but they’ll all do 7kw, which is c. 30A, and many these days 22kw which is c. 95A.

I don’t know how the chargers work, whether they somehow detect the potential current somehow.

By charge point I thought Light _EDD meant a street charging point.
( mine is 11.5kW max)

Oh. Yes. You’re probably right reading it again.

My connection has 7 pins and seems to do some form of handshake with the charging point so I’m guessing it wouldn’t be easy.

I'm considering hiring an electric car as there are train strikes around the time I need to make a long journey. Any suggestions for decent EV hire companies?

How long are you hiring for? Could be cheaper to do onto for a month.

I just need to do one journey of a couple of hours. Somehow thought there might be EV car sharing schemes around

I’ve used UFO a couple of times, hiring Teslas - they’re app based with pick up from the big park lane/ Hyde park car park. But all the usual hire car people - enteprise, alamo, etc will rent you an EV these days too.

The box between the plug and the car generates a signal telling the car how much current the charger can pull. It makes this number up out of thin air. Usually it's pre-set to match the kind of plug the box was supplied with, but many of them are adjustable.

Double sockets are rated to 20A max and non-ring main sockets are often on 20A breakers. To go over 20A you'd really want to plug into two separate circuits, but if they're on separate RCDs one of those will trip because the neutrals will be unbalanced.

22 kW AC chargers require three phase, which you won't find in a UK home.

This looks awesome.

https://youtu.be/K8SCsjql6Fk

It is awesome! Very well thought out package. The only thing missing is CCS charging but that could be added later on I guess. Drive in, drive out conversions start at £4x,xxx through Recharged Herritage. Go for the fastest (software) option and it’ll do 0-60 in under 7s.
We have the drive unit from this kit on order to play around with our own Mini kit. Slightly larger battery pack for a longer range (a lot of Mini owners/club members go on longer drives/trips with their Minis). And we tend to offer a more diy option instead of the plug and play Fellten offer.

Drive in, drive out conversions start at £4x,xxx through Recharged Herritage

And there’s the problem. Crazy money.

Hopefully these things are affordable in the next few years

A Euro millions car for me was a EV converted classic clubman with the front end swap from the regular classic mini and a van style sliding door on the left.