I don't have a clue. He was looking at an app on his phone which shows his energy usage.
Got to say, this really had me chuckling.. An app on his phone produces results that mathematically make no sense.. missing a factor of 3... who made the app? who benefits from telling the user that he is getting his commute at an incredibly low price?
Sorry RSKY.. not trying to pick on you or your son - but are we so easily victim to those that would pull the wool over our eyes?
It's gonna be cheap now because the government wants us to buy in. In China, the EV manufacturers get huge government incentives to produce electric vehicles. The taxes on ICE vehicles have gone through the roof and the average Chinese elite who can afford a car - cannot consider an ICE. Only EV is making sense in the big cities.
As I work in the Auto industry and was last in China in 2018, I can tell you that the EV cars we saw and were in - were very fine cars. These are not the junk they were producing in 2010 - my first trip.
I have written elsewhere on this forum that China is the leader in EV. The Germans are trying to catch up. The Americans are not in the game. Japan, always slow to adopt new things with the exception of the hybrid technology, are slow to move to all EV. They are still producing hybrids.
I expect China to be the leader because they are gobbling up the battery materials. They started early on. The rest are playing catch-up on battery design and manufacture. The Chinese government, knowing they had a huge problem with auto exhaust in their large cities, forced the electric vehicle. They applied government knowledge and resources. They are cleaning up all of their oil and coal fired generating plants and they figure they can control the pollution better at these sources than trying to control it in individual vehicles.
As I work for a company that does diagnostic tools for VW/Audi Brands (VAG), we are getting our hands into their ID.4 that is just now being released in the US. We have people in Europe working with their ID.3. These EVs are expensive but are lower end platforms from the the Telsla. That is, they are not being sold as luxury cars. VW wants to capture the daily driver.
Audi with the e-Tron EVs have some very nice luxury cars... We had an A3 E-tron for a while. Learned what we could and moved on to the ID.4.
Charging is an issue. Range for a vehicle is not what the EPA claim. Figure no more than 200 miles on a charge. Why? You don''t want to run your battery lower than 20% and you don't want to charge more than 80%. Lithium battery life does not like full charge or full discharge. So best to keep the battery in the 20-80 range. Battery packs are expected to last about 7 years.. replacent cost is significant.
Acceleration is really awesome because electric motors have huge low rpm torque. Top speed is a problem for electric motors. When they get to high rpm, they cannot deliver power. So at the top end, the EV will not outperform an ICE. But the top end we are speaking about is well north of 130mph.
Our evaluation is that the EV is a great around town solution. Home to work.. home to shopping.. charge overnight - perfect fit. Long trips can be accomplished but will take longer owing to stops to charge along the way.
Cost is substantially less right now because many many charging stations are free or have highly subsidized pricing. Government rebates and such are ending so cost of ownership is rising. As more cars are produced and driven, expect all pricing to rise.
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