Electric Vehicles

[kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong]

1 hour ago, TimRam said:

If you are in a shunt what's to say the batteries have not been compromised.

Do you have links regarding the first part? Just need education on the batteries used in cars. Every one I've used in many devices does not last years with the same power after many recharge cycles. Is it true an ev could be written off even if an accident is "slight" due to the unknown state of batteries?

There's lots of information out there but here's a link to a reasonable article.

Just in respect of the batteries following an accident...basically insurance companies are being ultra cautious and instead of replacing individual cells which have been damaged in an RTC,they are replacing the whole lot which is unnecessary and expensive.There are companies out there that already repair damaged batteries.It will just take time for insurers to catch up.

Also you can't really compare EV batteries to mobile devices batteries,they are completely different.

https://www.evconnect.com/blog/how-long-does-an-electric-car-battery-last

Edited May 1 by kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong

[GboroRam]

For all the dead tree press making comments about the damage to the roads being caused by heavy EVs, apparently this was not quite the correct evaluation of a report into road damage. 

Yes, they acknowledged that average vehicle weight is increasing, but of course we have heavy vehicles delivering goods every day. However, the report made a correlation between increased adverse weather and increased road damage. 

It's likely that the biggest causes of the extra damage are environmental, so global warming will be more responsible than the batteries - and they will be helping with the global warming problems, rather than adding to them. The papers don't want to tell you that though! 

[Archied]

13 hours ago, GboroRam said:

For all the dead tree press making comments about the damage to the roads being caused by heavy EVs, apparently this was not quite the correct evaluation of a report into road damage. 

Yes, they acknowledged that average vehicle weight is increasing, but of course we have heavy vehicles delivering goods every day. However, the report made a correlation between increased adverse weather and increased road damage. 

It's likely that the biggest causes of the extra damage are environmental, so global warming will be more responsible than the batteries - and they will be helping with the global warming problems, rather than adding to them. The papers don't want to tell you that though! 

Agree on the road damage issue ,ie it’s caused in the main by heavy vehicles not slightly heavier ev s, don’t agree on the better for the environment bit yet as claims are made only on what comes out the back of them and if governments ect are serious about improving things then they really need to be doing in depth research into the pros and cons of all new tech before jumping blindly in and pushing stuff on the public with this forced consumerism which we all too often find to be blind alley s which all too often turn out to be just as damaging or even more so but fill the pockets of the few and keep the taxes rolling , covering up a financial system that has deep problems ,

so in short , im not anti ev , I think they are part of the answer but are not THE answer

Edited May 2 by Archied

[Stive Pesley]

I'm not anti-EV either. I would just rather the EVs were efficient integrated public transport EVs and we stopped with the folly of cars being a status symbol and everyone in the family needing to have one.