Electric Vehicle MEGA Thread.

[BavarianBeast]

Anyone been following the lotus ESUV?

https://www.lotuscars.com/en-CA/eletre

[Buster]

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Anyone been following the lotus ESUV?

https://www.lotuscars.com/en-CA/eletre

lol.

no.

[Ca_Silvia13]

Not gonna lie an AWD EV VW Bus kinda rustles the jimmies

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2025...t-look-review/

[ExtraSlow]

Looks very cool. Q3 2024 availability, which probably means q1 2025 for volume rollout.

[ThePenIsMightier]

Yeah, that thing looks like it will fly off the shelves. I think that's exactly the right styling for that.

Holy shit, it said they discontinued the Beetle! I would have expected rioting.

[Tik-Tok]

Looking forward to all the campervan hipsters with dead batteries in campgrounds.

I would have as a city car though, probably over the ioniq5.

[The Cosworth]

Not an ioniq but a buddy has a model 3 (base I think) and we were talking at wings about the cost to drive it. I think he said he had 20,000km on the car and has spend $2k in charging. Which.... is remarkably cheap for 2 years of commuting.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

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Not an ioniq but a buddy has a model 3 (base I think) and we were talking at wings about the cost to drive it. I think he said he had 20,000km on the car and has spend $2k in charging. Which.... is remarkably cheap for 2 years of commuting.

That’s more expensive per km than my Toyota Echo, but then again it’s also an economy car.

[pheoxs]

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Looking forward to all the campervan hipsters with dead batteries in campgrounds.

I would have as a city car though, probably over the ioniq5.

Definitely possible but it's crazy how large EV batteries are in relation to consumer electronics. My Ioniq5 has a V2L adapter that's a typical 15A circuit. Hypothetically I could run a portable AC unit off it 8 hours a day at max for a whole long weekend and it'd only drain less than half the battery. If you stop for a quick charge near ish to a campsite you could have lots of fun things powered off the car for non-serviced sites.

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That’s more expensive per km than my Toyota Echo, but then again it’s also an economy car.

The math seems odd on that one. 15 cents / kWh should be $500 for 20k. Seems off by a lot.

[The Cosworth]

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Definitely possible but it's crazy how large EV batteries are in relation to consumer electronics. My Ioniq5 has a V2L adapter that's a typical 15A circuit. Hypothetically I could run a portable AC unit off it 8 hours a day at max for a whole long weekend and it'd only drain less than half the battery. If you stop for a quick charge near ish to a campsite you could have lots of fun things powered off the car for non-serviced sites.



The math seems odd on that one. 15 cents / kWh should be $500 for 20k. Seems off by a lot.

I mean it was a wing night where I wasn't driving..... I'm probably wrong.

[gmc72]

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Not gonna lie an AWD EV VW Bus kinda rustles the jimmies

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2025...t-look-review/

I really like these. Too bad it will probably be close to $70k here. Way too much for me.

[killramos]

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Looking forward to all the campervan hipsters with dead batteries in campgrounds.

I would have as a city car though, probably over the ioniq5.

Like any of them are camping without full service

[benyl]

Costs depend on where you are charging. At home, 0-100% for model 3 is anywhere from $8.50-$13 depending on battery size @$0.17

Here is a trip to the border and back. 650kms driving briskly and in the cold. If include a full charge when I got home, it’s about $70 or $0.108 cents per km. In Summer, it might be $50.

You can also optimize by driving slower (fuck that) or by going to a lower state of charge before hitting the supercharger. But I had the family with me and I wasn’t taking any risks.

[killramos]

Man. What possessed you to go to fort Macleod that often haha

[pheoxs]

Why does Tesla do variable $/min? Do they charge more during the rapid charging or when it becomes more idle? $1.7 a minute seems so high.

[benyl]

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Man. What possessed you to go to fort Macleod that often haha

back when your only option was to go to the border for Nexus interviews.

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Why does Tesla do variable $/min? Do they charge more during the rapid charging or when it becomes more idle? $1.7 a minute seems so high.

KW thresholds. I think the 3 minutes at $1.70 was for 200+KW.

[msommers]

Heard an interesting discussion in the courtesy shuttle the other day:

Electric vehicles such as Teslas are typically written off because the integrity of the battery can't be guaranteed after an accident.

Seemed extreme but not unplausible. Anyone?

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Heard an interesting discussion in the courtesy shuttle the other day:

Electric vehicles such as Teslas are typically written off because the integrity of the battery can't be guaranteed after an accident.

Seemed extreme but not unplausible. Anyone?

LoL!
That would be treating them like baby car seats. So eco!
#SaveThePlanet

[pheoxs]

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Heard an interesting discussion in the courtesy shuttle the other day:

Electric vehicles such as Teslas are typically written off because the integrity of the battery can't be guaranteed after an accident.

Seemed extreme but not unplausible. Anyone?

Yeah that's actually true sometimes. If there's been any damage to the battery compartment / the battery pack. The battery itself could be replaced but I think due to the scarcity of them most of the time they just write off the car and replace it which is so dumb. Hopefully in a few years we'll see better efforts to recycle batteries and be able to replace portions of it.

[spike98]

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Heard an interesting discussion in the courtesy shuttle the other day:

Electric vehicles such as Teslas are typically written off because the integrity of the battery can't be guaranteed after an accident.

Seemed extreme but not unplausible. Anyone?

I feel like a damaged battery isn't just a toss it out kind of thing. Tesla must have a process to reclaim functioning cells from damaged batters and exchange damaged units ones as cores for new ones. Sure, replacement cost would be a consideration like any other part but i feel the discrepancy isn't THAT big to total loss a car that easily and certainly not a deal breaker if the accident is severe enough to damage the battery.