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Australia’s EV sales are skyrocketing. Our charging infrastructure may soon struggle to keep up (theconversation.com)
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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Some EVs even have a “Camping” mode where they go into a low power mode overnight, but they still don’t have the same range the next morning.

Eh? I can leave my EV parked unplugged for a week and it still has exactly the same main battery charge as before.

Well, at least to the nearest percent anyway.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

'Camping mode' is about keeping the car on and running the A/C but with the headlights and DRLs off, so you can sleep in the car. It uses power because the car is running, just not moving. You can run the A/C for days from an EV drive battery but it does take power so you do run out eventually.

If you turn the car off, you lose something like 1 km of range per day on my car because it stays connected to the mobile network so you can control it from the app.

[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Mine has been sat unplugged in my garage for the last 2 months while I've been overseas and the state of charge has dropped a whole 1% in that time (and I suspect that the actual difference is less than 1% due to rounding).

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I was wondering. What Camping mode was, but that’s what the owners manual said in my nieces new EV…

I reckon it probably disables telemetrics and trying to spy on the owner.