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Old 07-20-2023, 04:20 PM   #2831
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Electric and Hybrid Car Thread

We’re close but probably not to your specs yet. The Model 3 AWD is one of the most efficient vehicles for power consumption too which has varying range in different conditions. But it doesn’t come with “compact” pricing. And a smaller car than that with today’s battery density will be less than that too.

https://ev-database.org/car/1591/Tes...nge-Dual-Motor

Remember that when you’re road tripping you are ignoring the top 20-30% of the battery as that would take much longer to “top up” than to charge within the 5% to 60-70% side. There are enough reliable superchargers (within a supercharger corridor) to easily allow that too.

The game changer for me will be the ability to charge at 3-4C average rather than just over 1C with today’s battery chemistry. But that’ll need a much different battery tech.

Range is fine, when do I need the capacity to eat up 500km/day? Save the battery resources to get more vehicles made hybrid/PHEV/BEV and hopefully in our near future we can see batteries that are ¼ the size delivering twice the range and at least half the time to charge.

https://www.volvocars.com/en-ca/cars/ex30-electric/

Here’s “small”. And how far it can go on a 70kWh pack. It’ll be even less when you option it with performance motors I assume unless Volvo uses the same hardware and just dials them back.
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