"How to ruin your electric car's battery" - and how not to
01-28-24 | 12:09 PM
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What is interesting is that when I first got my Plaid Tesla said to charge to 90% and it stayed that way for almost two years. Then all of a sudden this year they changed it to 80%. Not sure why they changed it but hoping my battery life wasn't affected too much especially when I was following what was reccommended by Tesla.
01-28-24 | 12:16 PM
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the other part of misinformation being one of the biggest obstacles EVs have to overcome isn't necessarily the existence of the misinformation itself as much as it is the number of people who are susceptible to uncritically accepting that misinformation as fact. So on the one hand we can and should blame the misinformation purveyors, but just as much blame, IMO, is on those who willingly accept things as fact without any effort to validate it and then pass it off as their own opinion.
01-28-24 | 12:18 PM
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01-28-24 | 12:50 PM
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EVs generally do pretty well in hot climates, certainly better than they do in very cold climates. Mine has an extra cooling circuit for the battery (the extra cooling circuit 's part of my max tow package, but it works to keep the battery cool under other circumstances). Really the only thing you need to do is remember to avoid long periods of inactivity at a very high state of charge. Of course the climate EVs like best of all is the temperate climate where it never freezes and rarely gets close to the triple digits but that's mostly true for any type of car.
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01-29-24 | 03:21 AM
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I think the real issue is lack of trust because almost everyone, on all sides, has an agenda and either overstate positives/negatives or lie through omission.
01-29-24 | 07:57 AM
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So the "participation trophy" generation are the holdouts on EVs due to misinformation? Don't think I agree with that. Those are mostly younger folks that aren't experienced enough to have been bitten by the latest, greatest thing that turned out not to be so great once you have to live with it. Most of them will buy into anything that allows them to virtue signal on social media.
I think the real issue is lack of trust because almost everyone, on all sides, has an agenda and either overstate positives/negatives or lie through omission.
I think the real issue is lack of trust because almost everyone, on all sides, has an agenda and either overstate positives/negatives or lie through omission.
In other words, there's plenty of stupid to go around 😂
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