Salient point was though flecc. if you run lithium battery to zero from 100% its good for 500cycles.whereas if you run it from 90 to 20% it seems good for thousands. That point wasnt made when I purchased ebike. They said each charge counts equally... (ie put 50% in and its half a cycle used)
I can't see that happen.
Lots of the older vans are approaching antique! Mind, some will be petrol.
If I were a senior civil servant, especially if approaching reasonable retirement age or with alternative prospects, "leave them to it" would be echoing round my brain.
I was reading something about computer lithium batteries recently where the view was very much to add the percentage charges up. (Think it was Apple, but might have been archive rather than current.)
With GBP on the slide, again. Petrol up to 129.9. (I paid just 119.9 recently so that is a huge increase.)Red bus anyone?
Figures from a House of Commons library document puts the UK's net contribution to the European Union and European Commission budget since 1973 at around £177 billion.
By contrast the expected hit is estimated by Bloomberg to cost £200 billion by the end of the year - with a £130 billion hit having impacted the economy before Brexit has even happened.
The analysis by Dan Hanson, a UK economist for Bloomberg economics, expects Brexit uncertainty to continue to take a toll on companies and consumers by the end of the year.
And while the expert predicts that tax cuts and increased borrowing in the forthcoming budget will give a "growth spurt", they predict it will be a "one off" which will be unable to make up for ground lost since the EU referendum."
Experts? who needs 'em, when we can sell up and become an American Colony?
to be fair, manufacturers give plenty of sensible information on how to make the most of their products. The capacity that you see advertised are real, the danger zone is above 4.2V and below 3V for Lithium ion batteries, beyond the recommended operating zone and the advertised capacity excludes those extreme ends.
VW are claiming 8 years/100,000 miles on current Golf. Not sure what they are limiting battery to but it must be of order 85 to 25% as in most recent test it only managed 150 miles. (claimed 186)
I think VW were going on about having three battery capacities with the largest having about double the potential range. But everything appears to be mentioning/promising the highest range but only even tentatively offering the shortest.
Good news Woosh! approaching 800 miles now on my new "Big Bear" it has the 17.5 AH battery, I charge it every 50 miles with an indicated 25% left on the control display, using power level 2, Never use the throttle.
That needs the local authorities to give them a boost. In London we've now got the odd areas where no ic van deliveries are allowed, thus pushingcompanies to buy e-vans.
Will probably end up with us getting even more old, decrepit, smoking vans down here...
Far more than double, it's 125 miles, 220 miles and 320 miles for the three prices on their new ID.3 model, which will replace the e-Golf.
When you mentioned I think 160 k nearly two years ago I followed it up, but on one Fleet News link I found that 150k was what their five Leafs had done together, most more recently bought.
But for virtually all e-car owners it's not relevant. Most rarely use anything like all the available battery capacity in their normal use, and as the article says, the cars have plenty of protected reserve that's not available, so they can't empty them.
It is a sensible option, I agree.
