[phtrivier]

I'm (genuinely) interested in knowing which EV you own that:

* allows doing 500 km of highway with a single 20m charge stop

* I can afford

I perused simulators from the various manufacturers. In highway conditions, the only vehicles with autonomy approaching that are using 60kWh batteries, which immediately gets them out of the "I can afford" category.

Assuming I'm lucky enough to find a used one with a 40kWh battery that the owner gets me a huge rebate on for some reason, and, again, using the simulators from the constructor (which are probably too optimistic for real life), the autonomy is around 150km.

From the https://fr.chargemap.com/mobile/planner, I would need 3 stops, and 2h30 hours of _charge_ for the specific trip I have in mind - which brings it from 4h20m to 7h.

To be clear: if I was looking for a "second car" to run errands and drive around home, I would rush for a second-hand small car with a 25-40 kWh battery, and I know that it would be plenty enough for 99% of my usage.

The few outlier trips that I have to be ready to take on the spot are still not a thing with an EV, though. And I'm not going to stockpile cars and choose the one that matches my outfit every morning ;)

I suppose it will get better when the Chinese have done their thing - my point is, I stopped counting on western car manufacturers a long time ago.

They could have gotten their act together 25 to 30 years ago. They'll go the way of the dinosaurs.

[aembleton]

64KWh 2019 Hyundai Kona - £10,800 [1]

Not a single 20 minutes stop, but a 16-minute stop and a 32-minute stop [2]

1. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202411015855192

2. https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=2707aa8e-702e-4d2...

[phtrivier]

About twice as much as I can afford :/

And looking at the ads, it seems like used ones would rather sell around 15k€ to 20k€ :/

[Topfi]

To be fair, which none EV with autonomy could you buy at only 5k? And add to that the maintenance, taxes, fuel, etc. a decently modern used petrol or diesel car will entail, maybe 5k as a hard cut off makes owning any car financially unrealistic long term, especially when, like you mentioned, needing driver aids.

[phtrivier]

Well, a second hand one, of course ? My current car would sell for something between 5-9k€, and I guarentee you I only stop in the middle of the trip to pee, and not to refill (given the insane gas prices on highway stations.)

The expectation for the average driver is that you're going to buy maybe one semi-new car in your life, and then sell it to buy other used cars, with maybe a small down payment, as your needs grow (family changes, need for bigger load, etc..)

The first-hand market is a fraction of the total market for cars. (In France, 6 out of 7 cars sold are second hand according to this source [1], I suspect it's similar in other countries.)

So, of course there is a chicken and egg issue for EVs, where used EVs can't have a decent range since even brand new EVs are barely going by.

Again, with some R&D, it will get better. But we needed that R&D to happen 30 years ago, and instead people where working on putting Bluetooth in the media center.

[1] https://www.automobile-sportive.com/reportages/voitures-occa...

[bryanlarsen]

Huh? 500km is easy. If you start out with 100% charge and 400km of range, you only need to add 100km more, which is about 10 minutes.

And sure the sticker price is higher, but sticker is only 1/3rd the cost of a vehicle. In TCO terms, an EV is cheaper.

[phtrivier]

Point is kinda moot when you don't have the cash to afford it _now_. Nor the debt capacity.

[bryanlarsen]

If you don't have the cash to afford a new EV, you don't have the cash to afford a new gasoline vehicle.

[phtrivier]

No, but I can sell it on leboncoin, and will have the cash to afford a gazillion used ones, which will all drive me around half the country on one (stupidly expensive and harmful to the environment) refill.