GRynners
Member
Have spent some time searching, and this forum has been a great find as am seriously considering an EV as a car for my wife. Her big concern is using the heater at motorway speeds and how much this will limit the range.
Her commute is generally a 45 mile round trip (occasionally 62 miles) with no charging points en route. It's relatively flat (A55 in North Wales to Bangor). What I haven't really seen on forums or on youtube etc is an example of what the charging needle shows at this kind of sustained speed, and how much difference the heater really will make. Yes, there are some estimate (can lose as much as 40% range?).
We have a garage so it would be possible to pre-heat the car I guess (I'm thinking electric fan heater for 10 minutes before leaving!)
Maybe I'm being over ambitious, but with no opportunity to borrow one for a 'proper' road test on the roads we normally use, hopefully you can give some real world feedback!
Thanks,
Paul
Her commute is generally a 45 mile round trip (occasionally 62 miles) with no charging points en route. It's relatively flat (A55 in North Wales to Bangor). What I haven't really seen on forums or on youtube etc is an example of what the charging needle shows at this kind of sustained speed, and how much difference the heater really will make. Yes, there are some estimate (can lose as much as 40% range?).
We have a garage so it would be possible to pre-heat the car I guess (I'm thinking electric fan heater for 10 minutes before leaving!)
Maybe I'm being over ambitious, but with no opportunity to borrow one for a 'proper' road test on the roads we normally use, hopefully you can give some real world feedback!
Thanks,
Paul