These flying EVs sound like fun, despite the limited battery life.
Flying electric car takes off in South Australian desert ahead of Formula One-style races | Electric vehicles | The Guardian
Having to design it to be able to carry a human must have added a lot of bulk and weight.
Think John Cadogan might be right to predict Tesla will struggle to compete with big car manufacturers as they roll out EVs.
Hyundai, Nissan and the Chinese company which owns MG, LDV and other brands are already churning out EVs much cheaper than Tesla.
The Euro companies are also pivoting, the Japanese must be close to revealing more EVs and the Americans are trying to catch up.
Tesla is going to face huge competition. It needs to release compact EVs if it is to keep growing.
If you need to contact me please email homestarrunnerau@gmail.com - thanks - Gav.
alas I have to bag my EV My car came back after two weeks apparently fixing the issue it did not go as far as it was suposed to. I drove to work and back a few times then fully charged Saturday.
Tested today with a sub 195km return drive. Failed at several measures plus. At Geelong 95 km from home car was showing 75km range left.
Not being suicidal. I charged for an hour in Geelong adding more than 7Kw. 95 km to home was a fail plus. 60.4km from Geelong is a CCS charge point. The car was showing Zero It got to that charge point which would have been with out the extra charge added in Geelong a sub 150km drive! With the hour 7 kw extra my car is replacement or refund now sadly. The MG is fine to drive. If it was 10 or 20% I would be happy. Being almost 50% sub the WLTP range indicates a battery fault with mine I think.
Not going to bag MG as I liked it for the work trips but not for what it claimed it should have been able to do. Not a chance my car would have made 170km. It is supposed to do 260ish KM
Wonder how the poor dealer is going to cope with me?
Paul
D2,D2,D2a,D4,'09 Defender 110(sons), all moved on.
'56 S1,been in the family since...'56
Comes out of hibernation every few months for a run
Did that and every day on the way back and also on the way to Perth in my Disco not that long ago. Note I like to drink a fair bit of water so I might pull up every 3 hours or so
The EV is not a Disco replacement. The odd bit is I can find dozens of people in Australia and else where who do get the WLTP range or even better. Fairly safe to bet I got a faulty battery cell or two in the EV I think. Not my problem - its the dealer I am feeling a little sorry for.
Noting I have had three faulty batteries in my Disco over the last ten years so not a total shocker
That's a real shame - wonder how the dealer will handle the situation - it's likely they will have to start dealing with this sort of thing on a more regular basis. Please keep us informed if you can - depends on how they react as to whether you can post their response here I suppose. If you can't even drive Melbourne to Geelong and back, that's a pretty severe limitation.
If you need to contact me please email homestarrunnerau@gmail.com - thanks - Gav.
A 2nd Chance for my little quirky car.
Ringwood and other MG dealers received a "MG_Motor_Bulletin_ZS_EV_BMS_update_announcement_1 80321" which highlights my issues which is not just me. Happily it has a probable resolution which I am happy to try.
Odd it was not provided to me at the date it was released as it would have saved me several frustrating hours- Small issue of a few hours yet.
apparently I have one of the "70 ZS EVs sold to customers in Australia" Flagged myself as an early adopter again after my almost 10 year old Flow Batteries UPS at work
For me specifically
"For vehicles whose range has dropped by more than 40%, will the battery recover by itself?
This loss of range is caused by the battery cell voltage gap, not a reduction in battery performance,
and the voltage gap of the battery cell is recoverable.
The battery itself can carry out the balancing of the battery cell voltage gap, and the newly released
software enhances the battery’s ability to do so."
It is exactly what a UK forum user described to enable the battery cells to re balance.
I will happily run to a very low state of charge then slow charge to 100% for a few weeks then try Geelong return again
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