Post #800137
2026-03-26 01:54 UTC
Replies (3)
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@DavidPenington@aus.social 2026-03-26 06:19
@alexkidman Very good article about owning an EV. It's worth noting that petrol fires are dangerous, hard to put out & bad for the environment, which is why fire trucks carry special equipment & chemicals (foam) to extingiush it. Water works fine on normal fires & is a disaster on petrol ones. Petrol: it's not safe, It's just well established. We are noticing a 20% reduced charge capacity & range from our 8 year old Outlander PHEV. I think PHEV's work the battery a lot harder than EVs, because on a long trip it repeatedly gets as low as the system allows.
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@static@aus.social 2026-03-26 22:46
@alexkidman Good article. Before I plunked down for an EV a number of years ago, I went on a bit of a road trip to see how far 100km actually was. It was a lot further than I thought it was! I used to point this out when people asked about "range anxiety". I also find a lot of people don't easily grasp the idea of "destination charging". That is, charge where you are visiting for another reason. The charging spots at supermarkets and super-centres are a step in this direction, but are a mere drop in the bucket of what's needed. There needs to be a hundred, a thousand times more of these charge spots in many, many different places until it becomes unusual when a suburban shipping strip *doesn't* have any. (And don't get me started on how they all require an account to be setup...)
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@wesley@theatl.social 2026-03-26 23:02
@alexkidman We're about to go out and buy an EV this weekend. We've been wanting to for a while but this seems like the time now. Our problem is that we're a family of 5 and we are feeling the squeeze our sedan. We want an minivan but at the moment there is only one...