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To be honest I have read it online as well. I don't know if it's true. I reckon if the battery is designed to take fast charging all the time, it should be okay
by jp0d 6y ago
To be honest I have read it online as well. I don't know if it's true. I reckon if the battery is designed to take fast charging all the time, it should be okay. Another thing that affects batteries is weather. In colder climates like Europe you're probably okay. We have had reports of batteries losing half their capacity due to heat in Australia. Those were all Nissan Leafs, which didn't have any active cooling in place. We don't have an extensive supercharger network either. You'll probably be okay in East coast region. Forget about charging your car, in some remote areas you're probably not gonna get petrol either. You can only get diesel. Seems like EU is far ahead in EV adoption than AU.
- kwhitefoot 6y agoEurope varies wildly in uptake of EVs because incentives and infrastructure vary so much. Here in Norway 50% of new car sales are pure EV and there are chargers all over the place. Ten percent of cars in the country are now electric. A lot of petrol stations, particularly Circle K, are installing chargers too. But in the UK the story is very different, 10% of new car sales and a total of less than 2% of cars are EVs. The difference is probably down to the taxes on cars. Here in Norway expensive cars are doubly expensive because of progressive taxation on them from which EVs are exempted but in the UK you just get paid back a few thousand pounds by the state when you buy an EV. So here EVs are comparable in cost to ICE cars especially at the expensive end of the price range.