EV Decision-making

  • November 20, 2024 4:35 PM
    Message # 13433144
    Andrew (Administrator)

    I live in a rural area, and primarily use my car for medium length trips where I'm not spending much time at the destination.

    What do you folks think about Hybrid versus Full-EV?

    What are the top concerns for home charging?

  • November 20, 2024 9:17 PM
    Reply # 13433260 on 13433144
    Art (Administrator)

    The issue is quite simple.   About half the residents of Ontario live in high rise apartment blocks where charging at home is mostly unavailable.   Since there are few EVs, the administrators of the building do not wish to spend the fees collected from all residents to install chargers that are used by a few.   Hence alternate arrangements must be made during the transition to more EVs.   Charging at work, at a restaurant, at a sports field, at your town central parking lots, park and ride lots, or any destination that has you there for over an hour is a good plan.   Locating chargers at the Post Office, the bank, the 7-11, take-out fast food or any other short duration stops makes no sense.   The other issue is that only Tesla seems to have solved the operation and maintenance issue with their chargers.   the others have not done well.   Locating chargers on telephone poles, parking meters, and wall mounts in often crowded places seems to be working in Europe.   

    However, if you have your own residential garage, then charging from a normal 120 Volt plug is what I do after every end of day usage.   

    Once anyone has driven an EV for an hour, you never want to go back.   There are so many features to make your driving experience not only fun but low stress, and they are updated "over-the-air by the Internet" at least once a month.    Like Christmas eve once a month and you don't really know what to expect.   


    Art 

  • November 25, 2024 6:03 PM
    Reply # 13434924 on 13433144

    By Hybrid vs full EV, I presume you mean Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV).  A PHEV is an excellent choice for people who do not make many lond-distance drives.  I had a 2028 Mitsubishi PHEV for which I could travel up to 30 km on elevtric only - covered most local driving.  The Toyota PHEV can go 65-70 km on electric only.

    A regular Hybrid is not a good choice no in my opinion, since the batteries cannot maintain more than 1 km or so on electric only.  

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