Recent content by rcomeau

To be fair, a L3 charger costs hundreds of thousands of $ while a L2 costs a few hundred $. Most of the cost is to pay for the twitchy equipment that probably needs a lot of maintenance to keep running. If you average all your L2 & L3 charging you are still likely ahead the game. Hopefully they...

North to south also means a predominant tail wind, so better range! I remember cycling from Vancouver to San Fran (decades ago) and the advice was to go north to south otherwise the wind would take the fun out of the trip.

I dunno, but maybe you are overthinking this a little bit. The car displays the SOC on the screen, yes? Well, it does not take long to get good sense of the range of the car from your personal driving habits and then picking the next charge stop based on that with a bit of a buffer depending on...

Keep in mind that some public L2 chargers may charge by the hour (and not by energy delivered), so in these rare cases, you may pay ~$1 more at the end of the charge cycle, but it is pretty much a round-off error.

I own a 2019 I-Pace and have been on the fence on the Macan 4S for a while, largely due to the battery recall issues the I-Pace making the resale value $0 and waiting to see of they expand their buybacks of 2019 models in the US to the rest of us. If there are some discounts to be had on the...

I spotted these in a hotel parking in Vancouver, Canada a few weeks ago. Note the cameras mounter on the sides. Any ideas what this was? It had personalized Georgia plates that said "Manufacturer HQ"

Thanks for sharing. What kind of distances were you driving between charge stops?

If the Macan is not your first EV, you will already likely no less than a dozen different accounts and associated apps for the different networks. In addition to the usual suspects for DC fast charging, every hotel stay on a road trip usually involves yet another obscure network for L2 charging...

Don't see ventilated seats in the iX3 configurator. How is that possible in this day and age?

I think seat heaters don't work well unless someone is sitting in it (the seat is mostly foam insulation, so little thermal mass and the leather is not a great heat conductor), so maybe they don't turn on because the wont do much until you sit in it. Just a guess.

After more than a year of lurking, I may be finally pulling the trigger. My delay is a bit unique. I currently own a 2019 Jaguar I-Pace (I think a few if you may have been in the I-Pace forum). My model year has been bought back by Jaguar in the US due to battery safety issues (or maybe...

Does anyone have an idea of what goes on during re-balancing? One might expect a % or so in changes, not 15%. Cells are not tuned off and on individually. Re-balancing tries to get all cells to the same state of charge so they can charge and discharge in a similar way as a group so they all...

I think that there are two somewhat independent things going on in cold weather. First, the car consumes more to heat the cabin and presumably to manage the battery. Second (and I am, less sure about this) the battery looses effective capacity in the cold. The battery likely loses efficiency in...

Is there any study that shows to is more efficient to spend energy (from that finite reserve of the cold battery) to warm up the battery before drawing a higher current to move the car (which would warm it up somewhat)? If the wind chill prevents the battery from warming up while driving (if one...

Your friend took it out for a joy ride!