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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.
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Looking back over the past decade, it's fascinating to see how much technology has evolved.
In 2015, the Volkswagen e-Golf was one of the top EVs available, offering optional fast charging and a range of just 125 km.
Did anyone here drive an EV 10 years ago? What was your experience like?
I still feel like, at least for urban use, that a smaller battery with faster charge times are better than a long range battery
Battery sizes and charging speeds correlate, I think this is one of the main reasons we see cars with almost 100kwh of battery nowadays.
You can always just charge 20 kwh on your 70 kwh car. That'd be very fast
A larger battery is easier to get to charge at higher rates. So charging for a 50 km drive, can generally be done faster on a bigger battery.
And it will last longer, because the wear is per "full" recharge, where obviously for the same amount of distance, a bigger battery will require fewer percent of a full recharge.
That said, of course a smaller battery could in theory be of higher quality. But that's usually not how it works.