Well said, Martin. I too would prefer the 40kwh pack. Why invest in 1.5x or 2x, or needlessly use up that battery plant capacity. I would though like to be able to add or swap in up to 2x at the first supercharger station and return it there on the return leg, should I take any long trips.
24kwh packs are marginally sized for MN, this winter we're close to an all time record for length/amount of cold much of it below zero F. I'm curious to know how the leaf's are holding up. Chris. On February 27, 2014 3:14:42 AM CST, Martin WINLOW <[email protected]> wrote: Hi John, I agree about having a big battery pack. I just don't see the point in hauling around an ICE and all its associated 'stuff' when, as you say, the vast majority of daily driving done by most vehicles does not require one - in exactly the same way that a large pack is generally not needed. All that is required is a slightly adjusted mental attitude and a good fast-charge infrastructure. Then you have all the servicing relating costs and hassle to contend with. All this just isn't there with a full EV. Were I to buy a Model S it would 100% be the 60kWh version - if they still did the 40kWh I'd 1005 have that, instead. My beef with the ICE principally lies in its appalling inefficiency. Directly connected with that is the fact that it uses (wastes, really) a finite resource and in doing so mucks up the atmosphere - maybe causing global warming and ultimately very badly affecting the human race and most other biological systems on the planet - or not. Who knows? I don't but what I think is inescapably true is, that by the time we know it is true, it will be far too late to do anything about it. Meanwhile lots of fat cats, who are so deeply in the pockets of those who control our lives (probably for the worse), get fatter and most of then couldn't care less what it costs us as a direct consequence of their greed (and our complacency). So, ICE? No thanks. End of. The other side of this is that I just really don't mind the idea of driving for a couple of hours and then charging/having a rest for 30 minutes - you arrive feeling very relaxed rather than completely worn out, and you drive much more safely due to nit getting tired and irritable. Bear in mind, tho, that I don't have kids... (Dad, are we there yet? No, we're just stopping for half an hour to re-charge. ****WHAT?!**** I'm going to miss CBeeBies!!!!!) MW -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140227/c23f8a5e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
