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Old 01-26-2010, 04:17 AM   #28 (permalink)
Piwoslaw
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Svietlana II - '13 Peugeot 308SW e-HDI 6sp
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An EV is supposed to be driven and charged everyday to keep the batteries healthy, or so I've heard. I don't commute everyday. I bike when I can, but public transport is good. My wife has 20-25km one-way. In the summer, she bikes. In the winter it takes her 1.5-2 hours to get to work on 3-4 busses, so she'd like a car. But the winter here won't allow that: this morning it was -30*C (-22*F). Even if a freshly charged EV would get her to work in that temperature (the car would have to sleep outside), then:
  1. She would freeze in a -30 degree (C) steel can,
  2. The car would spend 8 hours in the parking lot in temperatures around -15*C. Would it make it home?
We would love to have a small, 2-4 person EV with 100-150km range, but we would use it only 2-4 times per month at most. The rest of our trips are long distance.

But things change, and if it turns out that biking/mass transport are out of the question and we will be able to use an EV, then I'll have a new project
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