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Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?
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Did a whole ton of running around today, went to the Oshawa Centre afterwards and ended up being there long enough to get a full recharge on their chargers (8.6KW) for free, used 1KW driving home, and topping off now. Total cost for about 50KM of around town errands and such will be about $0.08 in electricity now that we're back home.
There was a blue Bolt parked next to us in the EV parking spaces at the mall. My wife eyeballed it and wasn't wowed with the styling. Uh oh. Better show her one of the copper coloured ones next time, that is one of her favourite colours..
There was a blue Bolt parked next to us in the EV parking spaces at the mall. My wife eyeballed it and wasn't wowed with the styling. Uh oh. Better show her one of the copper coloured ones next time, that is one of her favourite colours..
Funny you mention that as I noticed the same thing yesterday. Honestly I've never seen them used, and on a 120V charge you'll get 1-2km at best so not even worth it. Only benefit would be closer parking....but I don't see the point of providing that (and I'm an EV driver)!
Plus regular cars will always park there regardless as they don't think that EV drivers/cars are special.
If it's damn cold out and I am going to be in the store for a while, I have plugged in the VW to keep some heat in the engine. My range gained from a warmer engine probably exceeds the range an EV gains from charging during the same period. I won't block 220V charging stalls, but 120 is useless enough that I just don't care.
As mentioned, 120V charging stations at a place where you're unlikely to be there more than a half hour at best is a joke. By the time you get your EVSE out and plug it in for a 20 minute visit you might get 1KM or so. Not worth the effort.
Nice idea, but poor execution.
Exactly. It's no coincidence that most malls have EV charging stations now.
Owners love them because they're getting free "gas" while they shop. Malls love them because for a few pennies in electricity people stay in the mall longer. Malls and the retailers also love them because EV sometimes = more affluent clientelle as well, meaning more money potentially spent there.
If you have to ask for help at my HD you could get a decent charge while waiting.
At between 7-9 hours for a full charge on even a Volt, much less a Tesla or a Bolt, that’s a hard one to agree with.
Interesting...wonder what the engineers reasoning was behind that.
Another fun fact I discovered yesterday - on 2011's and 2012's you don't need the TPMS tool to recalibrate the wheels after a change, there's a method to do it by just putting the car in calibrate mode and then bleeding tire pressure until it honks at you.
That's how it worked on my '06 Caddy as well. It sucks that you need a special tool now.
I've never seen one - Hyundai doesn't really seem to be moving them - I see far more Volts (and heck, even Bolts) out there than Ioniq's, at least the true EV version, not the hybrid.
The only thing I know about then is what I gathered from the video below. It's interesting, but they try to do a rather unrealistic trip for a car with such a short true EV range, and they skipped past several DCFC options whilst opting for L2 options instead.
[video=youtube;kIGrTCcnUSY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=385&v=kIGrTCcnUSY[/video]
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