Electric Vehicles etc

Haakon

Haakon

has an accommodating arse
Dropped into the BYD dealer for a perv at a white Seal Premium. Very impressive, feels remarkably well put together.

Might have to line up a test drive :)
 
rowdyflat

rowdyflat

chez le médecin
Flow-Rider said:
It happens more often than one thinks sadly.


Electric cars more likely to be written off due to battery costs – report
What might seem like a small amount of damage to an electric car’s battery pack could reportedly result in the vehicle being written off, creating flow-on effects for the automotive industry.


Electric cars are reportedly being written off at a higher rate than equivalent petrol and diesel models due to the cost of replacing their expensive battery packs, leading to higher insurance premiums and a backlog of damaged parts waiting to be recycled.
A report by news agency Reuters has found automotive insurers in the US and Europe are more likely to write off electric cars after relatively minor crashes due to irreparable battery packs, which cost significantly more to replace than a petrol or diesel engine.
Though an electric car may only appear to be cosmetically damaged after a crash, any defect in its battery requires replacement. With electric-car batteries costing as much as half of the vehicle’s value, insurers are all but forced to write the car off instead of replacing the expensive parts.

The managing director of the Allianz Centre for Technology, Christoph Lauterwasser, told Reuters there are cases where a battery pack might not have damaged cells, but it is impossible to diagnose whether its internal parts are still functioning as intended, leading to the write-off being process.
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This feeds into what I was saying earlier that in Australia ,at least , there are not enough qualified people and mechanics being a conservative group are unlikely to retrain , until there is overwhelming need.
Yes insurance rates are going up due to hoons buying overpowered EVs and crashing and ignorance about what is happening to the batteries.
 
Flow-Rider

Flow-Rider

Burner
rowdyflat said:
This feeds into what I was saying earlier that in Australia ,at least , there are not enough qualified people and mechanics being a conservative group are unlikely to retrain , until there is overwhelming need.
Yes insurance rates are going up due to hoons buying overpowered EVs and crashing and ignorance about what is happening to the batteries.
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It will change as they become more popular but there are a lot of current issues around repairing these batteries. If you make the battery cell an integral part of the car as many are doing to save weight, it's going to be a lot of work to remove the battery or even transport a car that could self ignite.

It's like someone that was in a serious MTB crash, you can never really tell what's happened inside of them until you have expensive x-rays or ultrasounds and so on. Specialists are expensive in any field work.

It's only early stages of the EV revolution, things can only get better as time goes on.
 
ozzybmx

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
Cardy George said:
There's one parked in front of Coles at Marion Shopping Centre. Quite low- slung sleek looking thing
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Nice cars, very Model 3 like. We have a decent water bar on our driveway so the Model 3 was out. If they brought the Song L to Aus, it might be a different matter.

Seems to be the seal with more height.

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ashes_mtb

ashes_mtb

Has preferences
Just sold my Pajero in anticipation of my Seal arriving later this month (hopefully it’s not delayed but I guess I can make do with the weird two wheel pedally thing if it is).

Guy I sold it to brought his FIL along to inspect who has a 2012 i-MiEV still going strong. He had a Dolphin on order but had just cancelled it in favour of throwing a fresh battery in the i-MiEV.
 
rowdyflat

rowdyflat

chez le médecin
ozzybmx said:
We have a decent water bar on our driveway
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I know what you mean we have about 8 waterbars on ours , so I made them much longer and smoother and swapped the tyres for something bigger.
It was a bit like building jumps in terms of matching the mound to the wheelbase.

Yes part of the problem with active cooling is that it takes about 3 days to remove a Tesla's batteries due to complex liquid cooling channels.
, the Nissan Leaf has primitive passive cooling but my friend says he can remove the battery in less than an hour.
 
ozzybmx

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
rowdyflat said:
I know what you mean we have about 8 waterbars on ours , so I made them much longer and smoother and swapped the tyres for something bigger.
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It's a hump about 300mm tall, that diverts water down the side of the hill rather than down the 15m driveway that we don't actually own.
My block is 1800m, we look after 2500m. Council shit and crown land.
 
Dales Cannon

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
indica said:
Less range anxiety now, did 400kms highway, hills etc. 33% left when I got home.

Cruise control and conservative on the way there, sport mode home, fucking hot day too. Aircon was good.
Set to 25 on the way there, 21 on the way home.
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You're uphill going home too arent you? Good result.
 
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