Why is it that Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne seems to go on so much
about how much he is losing from each 500e when it gets so much praise?
I remember not so long ago that all new ICE models used to be advertised
with a statement noting the hundreds of millions spent developing it.
I doubt t
This is great news but not surprising regarding the price as I have never
understood why the cell packs were touted as being a huge expense on EV's.
The price paid by the guy in the street for small quantities always going to
be a minimum of 100% higher as my own 36kWh pack was around £8000 two yea
Although on holiday floating off Croatia on a 40' yacht, with the wonders of
3G wifi, I have been following this thread with interest and am so pleased
Mr Abramovich has been outed.
Hydrogen really is a non starter if we are to have an efficient fuel for the
future and it is only big oil that keeps
Interesting that BMW are increasing the production of their first proper EV
(which will bring it into profit at some stage) and the boss of Fiat bemoans
that his very pretty and saleable EV is sold at a loss.
Could it have anything to do with the low quantity I wonder?
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> Readers may be interested in my latest long distance (427 miles) EV trip
> in my 2011 Peugeot Ion (i-Miev) over 3 days - if not, please delete!
Hi Martin,
I certainly will not be deleting as your post is good reading.
Pleased you have a convert as well.
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I have read this thread with interest.
Both my home build EV's are AC powered and utilise regen either from a
released accelerator or brake pedal switch.
The accelerator regen braking is superb to use and I only use brakes to stop
quickly or to hold the car on an incline.
My older EV ( a Lotus E
Hi Martin,
I also received the Email from Chargemaster outlining their steep and very
confusing charges and returned the reply as follows:-
"Dear Mr Martell,
I have been the recipient of one of your HomeCharge Units which was
installed at my home address under the government sponsored program as
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Since when was the Chateau de Versailles moved to the UK?
For a moment there I thought the Queen had swapped her Land Rover for a Zoe!
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I don't think there is an active map yet showing usage but the map can be
found at http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/for-the-road/our-electric-highway
At least the swipe cards are free and I may well move my home energy supply
over to his company when it is due.
At least you can see who you are dealing
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the links.
Having met Dale Vince of Ecotricity on EV events, I have followed his
company's very forward approach with the installation of charge points along
motorways and other high use roads, especially the expensive fast DC
chargers.
Only companies with deep pockets can ad
My CALB cells are installed with the 8mm bolts and flat and spring as
supplied and haven't loosened yet after more than 7000 miles driving.
They were a bit short though and some needed replacing with longer socket
cap screws when the thread pulled out of the aluminium poles. The copper
poles seem h
Electric trucks are for companies to tick the green box.
They will be way too pricey to be commercially viable.
Just look at the Ford Connect/Azure Dynamics EV that went bust a year or so
ago.
They were £40,000 each which is getting on for four times the price of a
Connect ICE van.
How can anyone
Have you tried talking to Christian Hosslin at www.turn-e.de
I have corresponded with him for quite a while and most of his work is
electric drives for boats.
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Hi Martin,
We in Leicester have over 100 x 13A charge points in the Highcross shopping
centre car park, about 12 per level and clearly marked for that use although
virtually always blocked by ICE's when it is busy.
I always plonk my car in one and plug it in, even if I don't need a top up
just to
I was on an EV event driving from Brighton to London two years ago and ran
out of electrons right under Big Ben.
When the cells picked up a few volts to lift them over the inverter cut off
setting, I crawled round the roundabout opposite the Houses of Parliament
and stopped again just after in a si
I think Fiat are missing out on a lot of sales over here in Europe with this
car.
I read that the CEO of Fiat thinks he is losing money on each one.
Since when has any new model been cost effective until large numbers have
been sold?
Development costs can be rolled over years and many new EV's.
Hi Richard,
Welcome to a new and massively fun way to drive. ICE'rs have no idea.
Having now built two cars, the first on www.evalbum.com/1454 is a Lotus
Elise which was my daily drive until I completed a kit car Vortex GTEV which
is a great winter car with greater range and warm with it.
Both m
I wonder how long it will be before a clever Charlie comes out with an
adapter to allow CHAdeMO enabled cars to use the Tesla Superchargers :-)
Is there anything on the Tesla chargers saying that you are not allowed to?
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Peri Hart said " Most batteries don't die of old age; they are MURDERED by
one form of abuse or another."
I think that says it all.
My Elise EV has 94 x 50Ah Hi-Power cells which are five years old and have
covered around 25,000 miles in all conditions.
They are early LiFePO4 chemistry and no wh
Hi Peter,
I swear by the Jabsco range of 8-24v water pumps and have had one in my
Elise EV for years now as well as another in my latest conversion.
They are developed for marine use and the 59520 that I use is rated to 21
litres/min which should be plenty for an EV's cooling system.
Max temp is
That will be one of the 22kw Brusa chargers
http://www.brusa.biz/index.php?id=147&L=1
They have phased out their excellent 3.3kw charger and I understand that
they are developing a 7kw model which will suit the new 32A charge points
cropping up everywhere.
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Oooops,
It is a Gen1 AC Propulsion inverter..sorry AC, mixing you up with the
others!
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Sometimes they simply can't give them away and you own it as soon as they
have installed it.
I would be happy to refer anyone if they would like one. Mine looks damn
good on the wall. :-)
Dear Chargemaster customer
We have recently installed one of our free Homecharge units at your
residential
After reading this post I worry about university professors and their
progeny.
It would only take a week or two to get a car like this back on the road.
its all rubbish about unavailable switches for goodness sake and to
re-licence and have it approved for road use in the UK would be easy so
can't
Priceless!
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I also thought the report was quite funny with the gearbox coming "straight
from the production line of a six speed automatic gearbox".
You won't want either the auto box or five of the speeds.
The journo obviously isn't an EV car person.
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Surely, it cannot be a "crime" if a company sells a car to an individual
rather than via a dealership.
You can buy any number of products direct from manufacturers if the
manufacturer decides to allow this.
They often do not wish to sell to individuals but it simply cannot be termed
a crime if th
I have been using a spring retractable charging cable for years on my Elise
EV.
Its fitted where the exhaust used to be and exits via a transparent flap
through the exhaust pipe hole.
At 12 metres it reaches most 13A sockets although the main charge socket is
in the usual position with a 2 pole c
How about us all fitting very loud noise makers so they can't then
complainthen we will get people legislating to make the silent,
now noisy cars quieter.
What a load of rubbish. People always look for problems with everything.
I thought blind people had better hearing! Maybe all the
Hi Lee, my point entirely because although most appliances are fully
insulated from the end of the cable, a charger potentially has open cables
which can track to earth when incorrectly handled.
Very high earth fault currents can be generated when there is a direct
connection to the mains supply w
I have seen it mentioned before that the Manzanita chargers are not isolated
from the mains.
As this is inherently very dangerous, I am surprised they are even allowed
to be sold and have never heard of any non isolated power supply being
available in Europe.
Can anyone expand on how this can be
Correct me if I'm wrong but before the release of every new ICE model, nearly
all car manufacturers boast of the multiple millions/billions spent
designing it.
This is recouped over years and I am sure if you divide the first years
sales by this figure, the costs far outweigh the profit.
R+D is e
Wow, I thought the US was the land of opportunity and competition.
This is protectionism. What are they afraid of. The future?
I would be very surprised if the UK or even some protectionist European
countries had these laws.
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Yep, that last sentence in the NYT article says it all.
"The car companies are complying with the regulations, but their lobbying
arm, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, has petitioned the EPA to
block California's ambitious requirement."
Protectionism rules!
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I found the paperwork to be very clear and simple when applying.
It does state that you will be the owner of the charge point from day one
but that they reserve the right to receive data from it for up to three
years which I guess is for the government to chew over.
You can move it from house to
I recently applied for and had installed a free chargepoint which included
the flying lead and J1772 plug.
Apparently, the UK government are underwriting these installations for home
use.
The 16A one is free and for an extra £70 they install a 32A one.
It is only for certain areas of the UK but
I describe them as "future proof" because they are fully configurable via
free software to virtually any cell chemistry and charge rate, and state
that they are supporting them until at least 2016.
The support I have received has been first class. Even when I managed to
damage my first one when ou
If anyone is interested, Brusa are now selling their chargers for less than
half price now. 1,200 Euro.
http://www.brusa.biz/index.php?id=55...ews%5d=178&L=1
I have used one of these excellent chargers for some years now and purchased
another recently from Jack Rickard's EVTV store but these will
Here in the UK petrol (gas) is over $10 per gallon.
EV's are very likely to take off soon but the negative journalists articles
are going to take some years to overcome.
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The Ford Fiesta is a CAN based EPAS and although difficult to use outside of
a Fiesta, I know a guy in the UK who has reverse engineered the comms
required and even enables the speed sensed assist which reduces the
assistance the quicker you go.
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I have an electric Ford Fiesta power steering column in my car. It only seems
to pull 1 or 2 amps when turning the steering wheel even at standstill
despite having a large 40A fuse and heavy gauge wire running to it.
On an EV, any power savings are worth it and running an electric hydraulic
pump i
These charge points are only an expensive way of packaging a 32A RCCD with a
length of cable and a J1772 plug on the end.
Should cost around 20% of the charge point price for parts only plus the
cable to the supply board.
They are always incorrectly termed "Chargers" which they are not. Just a
pos
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