How far can electric cars REALLY go?? – we drive 12 until they DIE! Tesla, BYD & more | What Car?
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Published 2024-03-01
How far can electric cars really go in the winter? We drive 12 EVs – including the Tesla Model 3, MG4, VW ID.7 and BYD Dolphin – until they die to find out.
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All Comments (21)
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I think I speak for all non-UK based viewers: would you please add the metric system equivalent to the miles and mph you mention during the video? A simple text overlayed on the video would suffice. Thank you!
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Ah the Jeep Avenger. Awarded car of the year before there were even pre-production test units. There definitely wasn't any back-door dealings there. Pinnacle of quality
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as James May said, it's more likly recharge anxiety not range anxiety. & i can't agree more
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It's insane to think that just 35 years back (which, in the grand scheme of things is not that long ago), you could have bought a 2-4 bedroom house in the London suburbs within the price range of these cars!
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Now I get why toyota keep saying bad stuff about EV while themself making such a bad EV. Its horrid.
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Excellent. Would have loved to see the Ioniq 5 and 6 and Model Y in this too…
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Is it just me or is it outrageous that on average these are 30% short of claimed range. What’s that about?
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7:00 Yes, going to a place with actual winter would be even more interesting. Testing in 6 degrees below what would be considered a nice summer day should not really produce any significant deviations, but clearly it does. Ranges of 25 - 30+ percent below the stated figures show an unreasonable difference between factory numbers and real life imo.
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I think an interesting test would be new against 5yrs old second hand cars range and depreciation and costs involved .
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For context, the Tesla superchargers price right now ranges from 0.38p to 0.55p/kWh, much less than £0.79p/kWh.... but not just that! it shows you the price in the car, for that day, with a bar chart which shows the varying prices at different times of the day.
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Looks like i'm sticking with my 2006 Peugeot Expert Diesel, just done Cornwall and back almost 900 miles and only one refill on the way back which took about 4 minutes. :o)
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Last year I payed £2000 for an 08 1.9 diesel Skoda Fabia Estate. I can fill the tank and 4 people with all their luggage for a week can travel 6-650 miles comfortably before I have to refill. Probably more . Then I just have to find a fuel station and can refill in 10-15 minutes. One of my favourite holiday destinations here in the UK is 260 miles from my home. I think I will stick to a diesel and leave the disabled scooters alone.
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The heat pump makes a much bigger difference with short daily journeys, bringing the batter and cabin temperature up from cold, to body temperature each time. Constant driving makes less difference.
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Did you also measure how much energy the cars needed to full charge again? That is much more interesting than calculate efficiency acoording to claimed usable size of battery. VW for example works in reality with some 72 kWh instead of claimed 77 kWh according to many other test and measurements.
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So basically, the average EV has about a 30% lower range than claimed. Frankly that's appalling and this level of inaccurate reporting by manufacturers should be illegal.
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Insane test! Best comparison i've ever seen! Well done!
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An interesting test would be to repeat this on the same cars but with them all being 3 years old... Nice work!
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you should have tested ioniq 5 and ioniq 6
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You did not consider the most critical differentiating factor: battery type! Which cars have LFP batteries and which ones use nickel based NMC?
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You guys are so good at dragging the video. The cars introduction could've been done in a matrix with 10 seconds on the screen. Mt attention span was done after the heat pump thingy talk
