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We buy a used Porsche Taycan! Bargain price, 1000km road trip and charging dramas

EV Central

A Taycan’s DC charge port is behind the front left wheel, and Tesla chargers are designed for Teslas to back into position and recharge at their rear-mount ports. The post We buy a used Porsche Taycan! It is arse-hole parking. But we didn’t have a choice. There’s a lesson there, kids.

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Why you might be charging your EV wrong – and what to do instead

Baua Electric

The article points out that the problem with using the old “monitor gauge” model is that EV recharging and gasoline refueling require different strategies. If recharging is started at the right time and place, it takes only seconds to plug in. If you are an EV buyer, you are not just buying a car.” Get started here. –

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Deloitte Survey finds only 4% of global consumers likely to be satisfied with current EVs despite increasing consideration and willingness to buy; higher ICE fuel economy reduces interest in EVs

Green Car Congress

The survey, “Unplugged: Electric vehicle realities versus consumer expectations,” canvassed more than 13,000 consumers in 17 countries across the Americas, Asia and Europe and revealed a general desire among consumers to buy electric vehicles, but a strong unwillingness to compromise on key performance criteria and especially price.

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How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated

Cars That Think

But the efficiency equation is more complicated than that because, unlike petrol pumps, recharging stations do not transfer energy perfectly. Some people will use this information to adapt their choices about where and when to recharge. For them, recharge efficiency might be just as important as MPGe rating. To perhaps 0.04

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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?

Cars That Think

And if we could reduce or eliminate that problem, how would that actually influence the development of mobile and wearable tech beyond just not having to recharge as often? We just recharge this small rechargeable battery indoor and outdoor, just continues to charge all the time. Fili: Yeah. Fili: That’s the Holy Grail, right?

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Battery Booster Pack?

The Truth About Cars

& Rapidly approaching his mid-forties, this author continues to use an older battery pack purchased about a decade ago – yet it is one that’s still available to buy new and provides plenty of teaching opportunities he’d like to pass on to the reader. Besides, that other car probably has a dead battery, too. & I was utterly mistaken.

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EDF and the Renault-Nissan Alliance Extend EV Partnership with Focus on Batteries, Pilot Projects and Mobility Offers

Green Car Congress

Starting in 2011, EDF and the Renault-Nissan Alliance will put their know-how and resources together in order to give customers easy access to simple, practical and economical recharging equipment.

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