A very well written and easy to understand summary. Many thanks. I’d really appreciate a bit more detail (but in layman’s terms) of the kWh thing, and what it means when it comes to charging and range. I’ve tried (and failed) to understand this from other threads but it’s a whole new language to those of us who have never had to get our heads around it. Even the descriptions of EVs in this respect make no sense to me whatsoever!
Ok, how was your physics at school?
Imagine 1 killowatt hour to equal one gallon. In your ICE, the more gallons you can fit into the tank, the further you go. Likewise, the bigger the batteries, to a lesser extent the further your car can go. Remember, more batteries = more weight and, unlike a petrol tank, you’re always carrying that around.
I’ll come to charging later and will explain, hopefully, in enough detail then. It’s all about the flow of electrons and the speed at which the battery will be charged. Bigger the charging rate, the quicker the car charges. But, the more power required, the more specialist the power supply has to be, the more it drains from the grid and the more the company gets billed, so the quickest chargers cost much more per unit than the slowest. It isn’t helped by the different terms used for different chargers by different people.
I hope that helps.
I’ll post more later. Life beckons.
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