By Paul Homewood
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Neil Winton, regular contributor to this blog, has a new article on Forbes.
His comments on EV range are particularly pertinent:
Electric vehicles are mainly overpriced city cars, fine for local use but hopeless if you plan a long trip on fast motorways.
Next-generation solid-state technology batteries promise to half the price, weight and cost, and double the range. But until solid-state arrives, and this seems unlikely in any great numbers until at least 2030, EVs will remain the unfinished article.
Meanwhile, European car buyers are being effectively gaslit by a lack of detailed information about the EVs they are being persuaded to buy. Not only is official range information often seriously exaggerated. An important negative is deliberately omitted; the fact that high but legal autoroute cruising slashes range by between 30 and 60%.
EV buyers need honest data which should include a rating of fast-lane performance.
ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, known by its French acronym, was asked to comment on the quality of range data in general and the possibility of a motorway performance rating but declined to reply.
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