I recently got a Chevy Equinox EV, and I noticed that I need to buckle my seatbelt to shift into drive or reverse, even for short distances. Is anyone else experiencing this? Does anyone know how to get rid of this issue?

Hey, i bought my first car-second hand Renault zoe- and am wondering if it is possible to charge at stations with only a credit card.

I've been reading about some special cards/badges wich i did not understand.

I've seen on an internet site named chargemap a location i wanted to go and charge but it is busy for the moment and there was written:"Access limited to members Yes"

So... is it obligatory to have some type of card? And if yes wich one would you guys recommend?

Im from Europe BTW

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/volkswagen-ceo-says-carmaker-will-overtake-tesla-on-ev-sales-by-2025.html

Really didnt age well with his “i think tesla has some advantages” plan.

What would it take to get VW back on track?

I moved house a couple of months ago and I've been living off my granny charger, which hasn't been great. I have been living in the bottom half of the battery for too long.

I ordered a Humax EV charger because I used to work for them a decade ago when their main business was set-top boxes and TVs. But I've not seen much online about them, so it's going to be interesting. I hope it's better than my Indra charger which turned out to have some spicy issues with the installation!

On Thursday my electrician is coming to install it and I'll be relieved to be charging properly again! When I have it going, I'll post again!

i’ve only ever level one charged my Bolt EUV once and the whole time I was paranoid that a fire would somehow break out. With the level two chargers, I don’t have any paranoia at all. Also the fire warning pop-up if I were to charge at 12 Amps instead of 8 Amps adds fuel to the fire (no pun intended).

Hi everyone! I’m planning on getting an EV sometime next year (I have a gas vehicle now) and I live in south Florida. It’s SOOO hot here though. Does the heat affect battery life? At all? I heard it worse in cold weather.

Is five years really that far out or is it best to lease and see how good these more advanced chemistries are?

So it seems most people agree that charging to 100% is not ideal for the battery on EVs, and a better option is to charge to 80 daily, since 100% puts more pressure on the battery chemistry.

However, what if it's only at 100 for a short time? For example, on my Samsung S23 I made a custom routine that the phone only charges to 80% anytime EXCEPT between the 1 hour period between 6am to 7am. This way, the phone is sitting at 80% almost all the time and only charges to 100% at that time period, which corresponds to the time I wake up and unplug the phone from the charger, so it's only at 100% for a very short time.

Would a similar routine work for EVs? And be beneficial? Thank you.

Do anybody have an idea on what the price of the 2025 Escalade IQL will be after the first year or two?

i was wondering if thats is any possibility to adapt an generator or perhaps any small engine to feed in real time the electric engine/engines, taking out the necessity of a battery (except for the old regular 12v one for instruments, computers and stuff).

as i see you could may have an car that can run on few liters of gas and benefits from the electric engine torque (im not aiming for a fun car tho, that would be similar to any 12kg/hp boring ones)

but is that possible? its not like the car would have 4 engines and anything close to -10 sec 0-60.. plus it would have a 5-speed short gearbox

With cheap i mean starting price under 30K LFP battery prices are falling and just look at the Chevy bolt EV, it only costs 28K Which is good for an EV. So why cant tesla just build cheaper EVs? The base model 3 costs like 38K i think in us But uses LFP (57kwh)

Many people think an EV battery should achieve 13,000 Wh/kg to achieve the same range of a combustion car with the same range. But in reality EV batteries should have 350 Wh/kg pack level energy density attain 600 miles with the same weight.

I did the calculations.

Take Tesla model 3(SR) for the EV and Toyota Camry TRD for the combustion car.

Camry's curb weight= 1620 kg

Model 3's curb weight = 1628 kg

Model 3's weight without it's battery= 1,172 kg

Tesla model 3 fuel economy= 4 miles/kWh

Energy needed for 600 miles= 150 kWh

Maximum battery weight model 3 can have to attain the same curb weight= 1620-1172 kg = 448 kg

Battery's energy density= 150,000 Wh/ 448 kg= 334.82 Wh/kg.

I’m going to Buffalo for a weekend trip and Bills game and staying in downtown Buffalo.

Just wondering if any locals/travellers have had any tips on best recent places to juice up my Ioniq 5? PlugShare is painting a bit of a picture , but and local advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hi. I have a Tesla Model 3 and a Mercedes EQS SUV. I have the newest Tesla charger installed. We have no fences, etc and sometimes when we're not at home, our neighbours using my Tesla charger to charge their vehicles. I can restrict the charger by using the 'Tesla only with VIN number' option but with this, I can't charge my EQS. I don't want to add a second charger and I'm happy with the Tesla charger, except this issue.

There's is a trick to solve this problem? Any option?

What if the city fined EV charging station hosts for not maintaining their public charging stations? Would it work/help? Or make charging too expensive?

Anyone have another EV inside your EV? Bugatti has an electric scooter Audi released this teaser for an E-Tron scooter 5 years ago for that last leg in w commute. Encouraging people to park further out and riding in.

Audi: https://youtu.be/Ip4-mSRZ8rE?si=-NOy5Zlox2UlmatO

This video touched on a lot of good points about riding vs driving in a city: https://youtu.be/I7Ao849B_MI?si=1j8si42lzwUtPggI

https://preview.redd.it/zqkuom3ymcyd1.png?width=1041&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b2df34c3fada37c2db8aeb837968a0852e97ac2

Bought the Tesla new 7 years ago, and picked up the pickup last week. 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV WT (Work Truck) with the 4WT option (largest battery). 450mi range. I Never would have thought that a huge full-sized pickup would be the range king, but here we are (ok Lucid Air beats it, barely and is a sedan). It's a great EV, loving it so far. Yes, not super efficient - no truck is - but it's fully EV and we wanted a big truck. It's an amazing vehicle for the money. This is the truck people have wanted. Cybertruck, R1T, F-150-Lightning, all missed the mark. This one, IMO, nails it.

Monday, I drove about 240mi round trip from San Jose, CA to Santa Rosa CA and back, plus some errands while there. I did zero charging for the whole trip. Started it at about 70% in San Jose, and ended up back home at about 20%, so used 50% of battery capacity, over 240-ish miles. Using my superior math skills, that would extrapolate out to 480mi of range on a full 100-0% run. If that holds, I might be able to go 450mi and end up with 5% still left in the battery. So impressed!

The WT has AA and CarPlay. We use Android stuff, and it works well. I ordered and received a CCS/NACS charging adapter already, but haven't used it yet. Did one fast charge so far at >350kW on an Electrify America charger near ou house. Not cheap but VERY fast. Went from about 15% to about 75% with a peak around 358kW, and it never dropped below 200kW until the very end.

The interior is HUGE, plenty of room for our family of 5 (all adult sized) and two labradors to take road trips.

The included soft roll up tonneau cover is my least favorite part (glad it was included though). We'll be getting the GM branded/sold tri-folding hard tonneau cover soon.

We also have roof top solar and 2x Powerwall backup. Solar isn't enough to cover all our electricity need though (and even less so now with 2 EVs) but still helps. I'll be thinking about installing a second EV charging/outlet in the garage next year. For now we will share the Tesla one.

Recently I saw a review video of the original Tesla Roadster, and it was an exciting car. It got almost 250 miles of range, and it was a first gen EV. Tesla also used a normal car interior for that car, not the all touch screen garbage that they use now. It was also one of the only sports car EVs ever released. Nowadays, even on the legacy auto makers side of thing, all that's coming out is copy and paste SUVs, and most of them use a Tesla style interior without buttons for things like HVAC. Oddly enough even though touch screens are supposed to save auto makers money, lower end EVs are more likely to have normal car interiors. For me anytime I see a car without buttons for things like AC, it instantly kills my excitement for it. I also don't like how we see almost no new EV sedans coming out, just big SUVs

I would love an EV with a range of <100km by design. Not a fiat sized novelty either if even those exist with that range, I’m not sure they do though. The vast majority of driving I do is within 100km. Hell, realistically probably 99% of my driving is within 100km and 99% of that 99% is within 25km.

Do the vast majority of people not have similar length commutes and drives daily eg to grocery store or errands?

I feel like this is a hole in the market. Every EV manufacturer is pushing for more and more range but I actually want the opposite. EV batteries cost what, 25-35% of the entire cost of a vehicle? If someone made an EV with a battery 1/4 the capacity of current EVs that would effectively cut the battery cost down to 5-10% of the price of the vehicle, which is thousands of dollars or even tens of thousands of dollars saved, and would make battery replacements a much easier pill to swallow.

What am I missing here? I know car manufacturers aren’t dumb. There must be a reason this isn’t a thing yet. It’s also not just the sticker price itself that could be lowered. Most the EVs I’m looking at have 1,000-2,000 lbs worth of batteries inside. If a car had 300-400 lbs of batteries instead that is a massive amount of energy saved over time. Youre burning tonnes of energy on each short trip by having to carry around that huge battery when you might only use 10% of its capacity.

I know in China the Dolphin goes for under $14k USD. Thanks to tariffs it’s $30k here, but imagining a world where tariffs weren’t in place, battery density keeps getting slightly better, and someone were to design a 100km range EV, that could potentially be a $9k-$10k EV. I think that would be extremely enticing to many people especially considering the lower cost of maintenance on EVs vs ICE. I’d gladly buy this and for my 1 or 2 long drives a year either rent a vehicle or simply charge a few times along the way.

Any thoughts on this? Why am I wrong?

I notice the sub doesn't have much information on most of the Chinese NEV's outside of BYD. Here's the sales figure of various brands in Oct 2024.

China NEV sales Oct 2024

Few points -

1. Usually auto sales is a seasonal phenomenon in China, Oct-Dec being the peak period. Jan-Feb usually very low in comparison.
2. BYD has upped it's game with a few popular PHEV models. Quiet a large gap between BYD and the rest.
3. NEV sales are consistently >1million per month now, they make about 50% of total car sales currently. Considering the entire year (Jan-Sept) NEV penetration is about 40%.
4. NIO, Xpeng sales are up recently. Xpeng riding on Mona 03 popularity. NIO's Onvo L60 yet to make significant difference, but likely to be a mass seller in 2025. Both are production constrained. Geely with Zeekr and Galaxy brands are also on the rise.
5. NEV exports are still low in comparison, BYD exported about 31K NEV's against 500K total sales in Oct.
6. Contrary to popular opinion, EU is not the primary export destination.
7. The pricing pressure put by these NEV's is making lie difficult to many legacy incumbents. Japanese brands are feeling the pressure. VW is Selling Passat Pro in China for €20,000 a car which sells for double the amount in EU.
8. VW profits are taking a major hit, but they still sell a lot in China - in 3Q's they sold 2 million cars in China.

Source: https://x.com/InsideChinaAuto/status/1852388299769589982