So the same as ICE cars then.
One of the people in our building has an EV. There are no charging stations in the garage, although there are a few outlets here and there we can use to vacuum the cars or whatever. The folks with the EV run a cable out the window of their flat, across the garden and down the mushroom vent to charge the car. I have no idea what they have in the flat in terms of a charging device.
An EV runs on typically 400V DC. So one needs an electronic solution to charge from a 220V AC supply. This is provided in the special cable for the car. The main issue for the power outlet in the house is the current that will flow. This is fairly high (10-30A) , but nothing that a household circuit should be unable to handle. If the house supply is properly protected then drawing too much current should trip a fuse/circuit breaker. There are conflicting ideas as to whether it is better for battery life and more or less efficient to trickle charge than supercharge.
We trickle-charge using a regular socket in the garage. The cable that came with the car has a box that does the conversion. This cord is portable so we can take it with us.
Oh, and our Skoda Citigo which we bought new 4 years ago has an Autoscout value close to 95% of the purchase price. A parallel inport never sold in CH must be in demand.
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12V PV panels on the balcony?
The overhead at low currents is rather significant - at least for Tesla.
The problem is: to charge, the computer must be on, the BMS must constantly rebalance cells.
I believe there’s at least a 600W overhead for Model 3 or Y.
So that’s energy that doesn’t go into the battery to start with.
Then, if above people’s cable is very long, that adds additional losses. Plus their sockets in the apartment really have to be made for this. You’re maxing out the sockets for 12h+ a day.
Emil Frey were never exclusive VW dealers, so why would they be unhappy?
Porsche 911 have never been sold with huge tax incentives, 100% first year write off in the UK for company cars. Why would a car that was hugely subsidised as a result have a respectable resale value as the purchaser of a second hand car has to use real money!
The other thing with Taycans, you can buy a delivery milage one from a Porsche dealer for about 30% below list, they could never sell them in the first place at list unless someone wanted a GT3 at list & would have to buy 2 Tacans at list for them to sell the GT3
According to a posting somewhere I read, “typical” Porsche buyers bought a Taycan but got tired of it.
Tax-considerations, fuel-price are not relevant to these people.
Porsche also has to discount the Macans so that people who would normally not buy one will consider it - because their actual customers rather want a something with an exhaust.
China is snubbing their cars either way because you need to win the license-lottery to run an ICE car in China - and they consider their own EVs to be mostly superior anyway…
PV panels were installed on the roof of our building last year, but I don’t know whether they managed some kind of direct connection in order to charge their car. I suspect not. They live on the ground floor, so no PV panels of their own.
In the UK they were bought by owners of companies as they got 100% first year tax write off, that’s not available to the next buyer, this explains 40% depreciation first year for a car with just a few thousand miles.
Porsche only sold new GT3’s at list to people who would also buy 2 Taycans at list. This explains why so many delivery milage Taycans cars are for sale…
That is nuts!
That doesn’t sound sustainable 
Funny stories.
What I heard is something less incriminating. You get the car allocated, but you have to order stuff from their accessories and lifestyle shop along the car. That way it looks like you’re a fan of the brand, not being milked.
I was reading an FT article on electrification and found this chart interesting:
The article is worth a read and talks about how China has managed to shift a greater proportion of energy use to electricity (vs fossil fuels etc.) compared to US and Europe.
Yes, that was one reason why I wanted the charging history. Trickle charging is less efficient, but the electricity taken is much cheaper than from supercharging stations so it is cheaper in the end to trickle charge. I was interested to see if I got the same kms for the same nominal battery usage - this should not depend on how it was charged but I was interested to check it out anyway. There are conflicting reports on the effects of charging on battery life, especially on the effect of charging above 80% capacity. Charging in 5 minutes sounds like a recipe for fireworks.
Electric and self-driving, end of year in Switzerland?
Chinese internet giant Baidu is preparing to test its driverless ride-hailing service for the first time in Europe, marking its latest effort to expand overseas amid rising competition at home.
The Beijing-based company has been in talks with Switzerland’s PostAuto, a unit of Swiss Post that provides public bus services, to launch its Apollo Go robotaxi service in the European nation, according to people familiar with the matter. Baidu plans to set up a local entity in Switzerland in the coming months and start testing the technology by the end of this year, the people said.
No surprise
PostBus was the first company worldwide to introduce autonomous vehicles in public transport. This pioneering role makes PostBus one of the most important drivers behind the development of automated and autonomous driving on Swiss roads.
Pity, I really liked the design
Sales of the Xiaomi SU7 electric car in China have fallen sharply after a fatal accident in March and accusations of false advertising. According to Bloomberg, citing a Deutsche Bank report, orders fell to about 36,000 units in April, down 55% from March. The decline continued in May. Shipments also fell: from 7,200 cars in the third week of April to 5,200 in the second week of May.
The reason for the decline was the consequences of an accident in which three people died, as well as the scandal surrounding the SU7 Ultra. More than 300 customers want to cancel orders due to misleading advertising of the hood design. Xiaomi claimed air ducts to improve aerodynamics, but they turned out to be fake.