Thats been a decent series and has shown that used EVs are no more a gamble than a used ICE car in terms of needing major repairs, to my mind anyway. whenever someone says to me 'what about the battery failing?' I always counter with what about a blown engine or goosed gearbox on your ICE? Even old and therefore degraded batteries still have a range useful for day to day use, especially seeing as most commutes are less than 10 miles.

 

 

 

That video needs to go in "the Truth About Electric Cars" thread. Apologies if it is, I saw the start of the bickering from the weekend and skipped a dozen pages....

I never posted it there or in the MG EV thread simply because i thought the battery state after 143,000 miles might be of interest to those looking at getting an EV.

 

The Truth of Electric Vehicle thread seems more suited to those not interested in getting an EV and that have had nothing to do with driving them or charging them. 

It looks like there is more stuff that is nothing to do with EV,s there, just about how superior a liquid fuel vehicle fills up quickly and goes far between fill ups. 

Haha, love it.

 

Should be renamed to "the truth, written by people who don't like change".

Interconnect from Norway failed. Batteries stepped in and saved the day:

https://www.current-news.co.uk/batteries-step-in-after-interconnector-trips/

 

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Norwegian power exports plummeted from 1.4GW to zero, with frequency on the network falling as low as 49.59Hz in two seconds—well below the National Energy System Operator (NESO) operational limits of 49.8 – 50.2Hz. However, the system recovered within two minutes thanks to fast-acting frequency services, particularly BESS operations.

 

Not only did grid level batteries respond almost real-time fast, systems such as Axle were able to make 100s of domestic batteries respond within 30-60 seconds to help local grid lower demand for generation. This helped facilitate the recovery operations. 

1 hour ago, wyx087 said:

Interconnect from Norway failed. Batteries stepped in and saved the day:

https://www.current-news.co.uk/batteries-step-in-after-interconnector-trips/

 

 

 

We had these onboard ship when I was Merchant Navy both for battery kick ins and for knocking out non essential power consuming items, such as the engine room fans.

We have at least two power cuts yesterday.  Those device, like my fridge freezer and laptop, which are running on the home batteries being charged by overnight cheap charge and day time solar mean one does not even flinch at these power losses.   Roll it out more and more so power cuts have little to no effect.