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Home Posts tagged "Range Confidence"

Tag: Range Confidence

Do we need a 500 mile range Tesla or other electric car?

August 27, 2016 August 27, 2016
Tesla Model S

This week Tesla Motors unveiled a larger battery pack for the Tesla Model S.  With a 100 kiloWatt-hour battery pack they’re now up to 315 miles EPA range, and it also let Tesla juice up the Ludicrous mode for an even faster 0-60 miles/hr time and claim to be selling…

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Video showing 544 kilometer range on a Nissan Leaf — 338 miles

June 25, 2015 June 25, 2015

Recent talk has been of Nissan/Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn at the recent Nissan shareholders meeting talking about autonomous driving Leaf’s, and Leaf’s with the range of gasoline cars.  This video shows someone driving a Leaf with the starting range at 544 kilometers, driving through the countryside, past charging station after…

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The 200+ mile range $35k EV competition, is Tesla still out in front?

June 22, 2015 June 22, 2015

A 200ish mile range for $35,000 MSRP is next threshold for electric cars, and appearances it will be reached within a year or two.  Maybe.  Earlier today InsideEV’s reported on a slide from a presentation given by Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubl that claimed the Tesla Model 3 (200 mile range…

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PlugShare’s new Trip Planner is close to what we need for longer EV trips

May 6, 2015 May 6, 2015

PlugShare just became extremely more useful.  It was already the best smart phone app for locating electric car charging stations, not just in the U.S. because its data extends to Australia, Europe and other places.  What’s new is Recargo has added a Trip Planner that’s pretty useful.  What’s shown is trip…

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GM really did trademark “range anxiety”, only later to abandon that mark

March 25, 2015 March 30, 2015

Back in the day, long ago in 2010 when the modern phase of electric cars hadn’t started being sold to the public, General Motors was showing the Chevy Volt at some public events.  One of those was at the Presidio of San Francisco (in a couple hundred years, due to…

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Tesla Motors magic pill to solve range anxiety doesn’t quite instill range confidence

March 19, 2015 March 30, 2015

On Sunday, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk did one of his famous cryptic tweets claiming to have solved a big issue for electric cars — range anxiety. Tesla press conf at 9am on Thurs. About to end range anxiety … via OTA software update. Affects entire Model S fleet. —…

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Real electric car experience educates drivers on range confidence, dispels range anxiety

April 30, 2014 March 31, 2015

Does familiarity breed contempt, or confidence?  That depends on a lot of factors, but a recent study showed that after about 3 months of electric vehicle ownership, EV drivers gain confidence and drive further afield.  Familiarity can breed range confidence rather than range anxiety, so please don’t buy into the…

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Coda calls on automakers to build range confidence into electric cars

July 26, 2012 April 13, 2015
Coda Sedan

If range anxiety is the bugaboo of electric cars, Coda Automotive’s Aaron Cohen calls on automakers to build electric cars that inspire range confidence instead. The major concerns about electric vehicles are Price and Range, and Coda Automotive’s Aaron Cohen gave a presentation at this weeks Plug-in 2012 conference talking…

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