Easily? Really? I've watched videos of EV owners having to beg strangers to let them plug in at their homes to restore enough range to get to the next charging station. I've watched other videos of people who ran completely out of charge while waiting in line to connect to a charging station. In many areas there are no charging stations.

@@gaiustacitus4242 and i can show many more videos of people running out of petrol or diesel , and believe me there are a lot more charging ports now than when i first posted that comment !!

@@familyplans3788 Only an idiot runs out of fuel in an ICE vehicle, for refueling stations are conveniently located every few miles. The same is not true of EV charging stations. Even when you can find an EV charging station, many of them do not even work in cold temperatures.

​@@gaiustacitus4242Not arguing your point, but fwiw, there are actually quite a few places even in America where you'll be driving 100+ miles between gas stations. everything gets further apart the further west you go, and interstates in particular will usually have a sign saying "last exit for 83 miles" or something. not a problem if you plan for it, but it catches people off guard when they're not used to it.

Thanks so much Nick! 🙏

You are 100 times more generous than your username Nick you donated five dollars and your name is five cents🎉😂

Hey, congrats! How’s it going for you?

I also have a local Nissan dealership. But my experience was not very good with them. Before buying my current second hand Leaf I went to the local dealer. They had two new Leafs on the lot. When we asked to have a look at them the response was "Why would you want to do that, they are electric". The dealer then tried to talk us out of owning an electric vehicle. They also have an onsite DC charger, supposedly for Nissan customers. But they leave one of their electric vehicles parked there all the time so it is always blocked. Nissan built a great electric vehicle but it seems that not all dealerships are a fan of the electric car. Sort of makes sense as the dealership would get next to nothing in after sales revenue. Maybe Nissan should have sold them direct to the public instead. 😁

LFP batteries are very old technology that was originally deemed unsuitable for use in EV's because of the lower capacity and rate of power transfer.

Funny, a friend of mines dad loves EVS, and he has three scrap leafs in his drive they all need batteries, and a new car was cheaper

@@terenceiutzi4003 Of course. Leafs have a well known design flaw in their battery system. They have no battery cooling which has greatly accelerated the degradation of their batteries. But even with degraded batteries the Leafs can be still used in situations where the reduced capacity is not a major issue. Plus this design flaw has given the anti-EV crowd something to point to and use as "proof" that all EVs are bad. So the Leafs are keeping all sorts of people happy. But for EVs with a proper battery cooling system the batteries are expected to last between 15 and 30 years before getting down to 70% capacity. For most original owners they would have sold the car long before that. Then the car will likely be sold as a secondhand vehicle to someone who is happy with 70% of original battery capacity. Or the battery could be replaced, Tesla expects a $3000 to $5000 price tag for a replacement battery at that time. But considering how few cars are still on the road after 30 years, it is likely that, like most cars, the car would have been scrapped before the 30 years is reached. Also when scrapped the EV's battery would have been recycled with better than 95% of the materials being reused, most likely to make new EV batteries. Oh, and to anwser the inevitable "lithium batteries aren't recycled" statement. Nothing is recycled on a commercial scale until there is a commercially viable amount of recyclable material available. With EV sales increasing by 55% from 2021 to 2022 and those two years totalling more than the previous 10 years. I think that by the time EVs that are being sold today need a replacement battery there will be a thriving battery recycling industry to supply the materials to enable low cost replacements.

@@terenceiutzi4003 Also Nissan has not helped the situation with no upgrade path for Leaf owners. So somebody with a 24kwh battery can not buy a 30 or 40kwh battery from Nissan. There are some aftermarket installers that can do the upgrade but as they can't get new 30 or 40kwh batteries they have to rely on getting replacement batteries from scrapped Leafs. This greatly limits an old Leafs options and so perfectly good vehicles will end up being scrapped or sitting unused in somebodies driveway. My Leaf is over 10 years old and doesn't have a single squeak or rattle, not a spot of rust anywhere. If Nissan would sell batteries then I would upgrade it tomorrow. But without new, higher capacity batteries being made available then my Leaf will continue to do the school run and shopping duties. No weekend road trips for it.

That sounds pretty ideal!

Do you actually get 300 miles per change on highway doing normal highway speeds? I know multiple Tesla owners who would beg to differ. EVs have advantages. Don't have to lie to make people buy them. I can guarantee that the shirt trip range over several days is much less than 300. Perhaps even 200

I've never owned an ICE vehicle that had only 300 miles of range per tank of gas. I've also never seen an EV that gets anywhere near the rated miles per charge when independently tested, even under ideal conditions that are atypical of normal driving conditions.

what will be your average driving speed at highway? your Tesla can only go max.about 150 miles or so at decent highway speed ( I am an EV owner as well). Let's stick to the facts. EVs so far away from a decent and relaxed highway driving at "reasonable highway speeds". Sure, you can make 300 miles if you ever drive at 50 miles an hour on highway staying on the right hand lane of a 5 lanes highway all the time. Also you can only use 60% of total USABLE battery charge once you are on the road. 20-80%. you may start the journey at 100% and you will only be using down to 15-20% level of battery and next charge will be up to 80% since charging top 100% will take so much time. Again let's stick to reality.

Normally the cells degrade at similar rates but you can have a fault situation where individual cells can go bad and if replaced can restore battery performance. For the brakes, i think I will wear the ebrake/hand brake before the main brakes. I rarely use the main brakes. Especially if the car is in Economy mode where the regenerative braking is more aggressive. 😁

The Prius is not an EV.

La première Toyota EV est très récente. La première Toyota HEV date de 1997 et les plaquettes se remplacent rarement vu qu'il y a un frein régénératif et la batterie tient 270000km environ.

​@@73av8r5thanks 🙏

@@jaseastroboy9240 using the ebrake or hand brake does nothing as far as wearing out brakes because the car isn't moving when you apply the brake... unless you use it to "drift" your car which swings out your rear! Lol

As well as hills, a drivers driving style makes a huge difference in fuel consumption. I see most ICE drivers take off from the lights rapidly, accelerating hard to get to the speed limit even though they are accelerating towards the next red light. They continue accelerating until the last possible moment then brake hard to come to a stop at the red light. Then they repeat that pattern over and over. I find that on main roads the traffic lights are sequenced so that if you drive just under the speed limit then you will catch green lights nearly all the time. Probably done that way to deter speeding. Whereas the ICE driver that races to the red light has had enough time waiting for the red light that they decide to get out their mobile phone and check their social media status. So they end up sitting at the green light until somebody toots their horn at them. 🤣

Gas cars still have to push the air around and so are less efficient at high speeds. But nothing is as inefficient as a gas car stuck in traffic. There is the gas car with the auto switch off and restart but I have heard that once the engine stops so does the AC. Or if the AC is on then it doesn't switch off. Different cars handle it differently. I am a bit old school and so whenever I hear a gas car cut out at the lights my first thought is that they stalled the car.😁

Really informative, thank you very much from the UK.

what really happened is that the computer recalculated the range based upon the slower speed less energy used

​@@jaseastroboy9240EVs have to push the air around just like ice cars.

If by some freek of science they could make a motor generator that was 100 percent efficient, it would still take the same amount of electricity to start the car moving as it generated stopping it. But at present they are about 60 percent efficient!

Thanks William, so glad to hear you find it informative :)

The Newer model Leaf has a true one pedal driving mode where it will brake proportionally to how much you let your foot off the accelerator and will switch to mechanical braking when moving too slow for regen braking and bring you to a complete halt. It also holds the car still while at rest. The "one pedal driving" mentioned in this video and by yourself is really not much different from engine braking in an ICE vehicle, it'll slow you down a bit but won't stop you and as such is not really one pedal driving.

Il existe aussi des régulateurs de vitesses adaptatifs qui vont jusqu'à l'arrêt complet et il n'est même pas utile d'appuyer...

Le preconditionnement a de l'importance surtout lors des recharges électriques ...

I think only Teslas’s can precondition the battery. Not all cars, especially not my Hyundai Kona EV, can precondition it. However since you have a Kia, go into the EV settings, and turn on “winter mode”. This won’t really help with the range, in fact it will take some range away, but it will help with protecting your battery from the cold temperatures so it doesn’t degrade fast over the years and it will keep your battery slightly warm.

@@JoeyDNetsfan Thank you, I will do that. Hoping for a mild winter near Lake Erie.

Level 1 in most of the world is over 2kw.

Thank you!

How did you do that

Du Diesel avec addblue qui cristallise... C'est sympa 😅

LFP is quite new, something around 2021 even for tesla. If her nissan leaf is second hand, I don't think it is on LFP. So is Na+ battery which only comes out in 2024.

@@egaskrad LFP batteries are actually old technology that was originally deemed unsuitable for use in EV's. Tesla turned to a variant of LFP technology for one reason, that being to reduce manufacturing costs.

On a point of interest other than the potential safety concerns of Type 1 domestic charging ( for instance a 3 pin UK residential socket is not set up for any DC leak faults ) there’s the question of efficiency too the lower the charging current the more losses experienced. Also a modern EV has a built in lower end and upper end buffer to the battery so a 100% charge really isn’t 100% of the actually battery capacity only 100% of the available usable battery. Also most batteries have a number of charge/discharge cycles determining their life. So better to charge to high percentage and use fewer cycles! And modern day batteries have great thermal management to ensure battery longevity. If home charging using type 2 charge to 100% if you need it for your journey or 85-90% routinely -indeed if you are taking advantage of an EV domestic tariff you may only get 4-7hours per day of cheap rate electricity so may not be able to charge to a very high state of charge in one sitting anyway! 8 year/100000 miles manufacturer warranty on an EV battery is not uncommon showing the level of confidence the manufacturer has in their battery. So after that time some battery degradation some Tesla’s of this age have lost 10% range through battery degradation it’s really isn’t an issue a 10 year old ICE car could easily be 10% less efficient than when it was new!

im terribly sorry to have to tell you this, but unless you're looking for the smart features and slight acceleration boost of an ev, its the worst possible decision for the environment

@@frostyflameff4003 Why do you say that? Will you back up that statement with facts?

@@JohnH242 the lithium used for the batteries damages the environment more than petrol cars for a few years, and require replacing too quickly for it to be a viable option. Not even considering most people don't even use the safe energy options so it's pretty futile

@@JohnH242 I will however hands down say go for hydrogen

@@frostyflameff4003 We are in an early stage at the moment, but there are some advocates who say, once we get battery recycling going fully, the need for new lithium mining will decrease dramatically. (Redwood Materials is one of the better known startups specializing in recovering lithium & other valuable metals from batteries 10 years old or more.) We may also see alternative battery technologies in the next few years so there's hope for the future.

Thanks Richard!

Thank you so much! 🙏 Really appreciate it 😁

@GeeDeeBird where do you live and what company you used to install solar system at home?

@@sinharakshit I live in Santa Fe. Affordable Solar.

I have owned a Leaf for 5 years. The costs of charging (for me) May 2022 was $42 for a distance of 2300 KM or 348 Kwh. I only charge at night when the rates are low. In the last 5 years service has included Brakes (once after 5 years) ,Tires (twice we had tire damage once which can happen to any car). No oil no gas none of that. Current state of health of the battery is 85%. We drive about 50-100KM and maybe 150 Km on the odd day. Here is my take. As a city runabout for example driving back and forth in the city (shopping and commuting). It is cheap to run, it is nicer to drive and it is our all time favourite car. When I must I will drive my gas car bur if both cars are in the driveway I will hands down take the leaf.

leaf is supposed to be a city car, and they bought it used, new teslas get 300+ miles on full charge

2023 Leafs have 151 mile range for base model S and 212 for larger battery model SV Plus.

Thousands of parts on an ICE car. Imagine the cost savings for Ford/GM etc with no more RD on beating emission standards, no more engine blocks, heads, valves, transmissions, water pumps, radiators, coil packs, fuel injectors, or fuel pumps. Think of all of the required maintenance for all of those items that is not needed with an EV. Dealers are in a panic with the EV migration as all of their profit is warranty work! I have only owned an EV since February/6k miles and I don't miss going to a gas station at all. 95% of our power is from home charging at $0.075 kw. Crazy how the talking heads say power is over 14 cents. Not if you check your billing and assume your connection fee is part of your house fee and not average it into your cars usage. Over half of our house fee is a flat rate charged here in NC but the actual rate is half of the average per KW rate you get by dividing your bill by the power used. Drill down on your billing to get to your actual rates.

@@sandrahuntington1602 This is bullshit. (I'm driving EV's for 10 years now...as one of the first buyers. Also in such a leaf.) Degradation has more to do with charge cycles....Modern batteries will last 1000-1500 cycles or , with a niro/kona E64 at least 400000..up to 600000 km. Most petrol cars need another petrol engine or revision of the first one after such a distant. That's not cheaper than a battery replacement. (But the dealer will earn more on such a revision). You're 9 years are only valid when someone drives at least 45000 km each year....and even then the range is still 80% of those original 450 km (350 km) so a lot of people can use that car with this lower range.

​@@sandrahuntington1602total BS , our leaf is 10 years old, and still going strong, and that is a 1st gen leaf. Modern Ev batteries don't degrade nearly as much

Due to the weight of an EV and the high torque of the electric motors, EV tires last anywhere from 15K to 30K miles and 30K if you’re lucky. EV tires are low profile and have low rolling resistance tread, most of all they are very expensive. Your savings on oil changes etc. are out the window. Also, PA to start charging $290 a year for EV registration. In TX it’s a $400 one time charge when the EV is purchased, then $200 every year after.

An EV needs a fire extinguisher, although having said that a fire extinguisher is useless against a burning EV battery.

The supposed EV fire danger is overblown. I have been driving for 46 years, many different cars and trucks, including my Chevrolet Bolt EUV and have never had a fire of any kind. In the USA, gasoline and hybrid cars have a much higher fire risk than EV’s, per 100,000 vehicles or a certain number of miles driven. You can google the statistics.