Electric vans

[flameport]

how can these people not know how much electricity they are using?

If they are charging using a granny lead, there is no way of knowing.

However anyone with ain installed EVSE will know as all of them report this and other information via the app.

 

[StephenStephen]

If they are charging using a granny lead, there is no way of knowing.

However anyone with ain installed EVSE will know as all of them report this and other information via the app.

I'm impressed at the impressive suggestion of such sheer wilful ignorance: "there is no way of knowing"
In this home, as in many others, the car is charged by a granny lead on most nights, and I'd be hard pressed to avoid knowing how much electricity is used to charge the car.

 

[Munroast]

I'm impressed at the impressive suggestion of such sheer wilful ignorance: "there is no way of knowing"
In this home, as in many others, the car is charged by a granny lead on most nights, and I'd be hard pressed to avoid knowing how much electricity is used to charge the car.

so how many miles per kWh do you get based upon the consumption from the grid

I only know as I installed a meter between 3 point plug and the charger (I doubt many people have done that), without that the consumption would be muddled between home use and EV use

I only know 3 other people with EVs well enough to know what they are doing regarding charging, two have 6kw charges with no means of knowing how much leccy goes to car, and another person seems happy to charge his car from a 3 point plug with the power draining his solar batteries - lol

@flameport - be interesting to know what these apps report, probably misleading nonsense like many apps do.
my solar system (Growatt) that tells me of wondrous amounts of solar energy that I am producing - of course its relatively meaningless, it measures the power leaving the solar panels, conveniently ignores the massive losses as the inverter converts this DC to grid useful AC, let alone what is lost in the solar batteries


life has never been a greater con than it is today

 

[Munroast]

No, that only applies to the indicated speed, the speedometer. There is no standard I am aware of, for the odometer accuracy. I have access three speedometers in my car - The default analogue dash, a digital version which is direct reading, and the satnav. The analogue dash reading is deliberately configured in the software which runs it, to read around 5% high. The other two are accurate. Likewise the odometer is accurate.

I also find the fuel range accurate, but it constantly revises itself, dependent on driving style, and the terrain. It bases the calculation, on knowing fast it is pumping the fuel/injector timings, versus distance covered. If I could be bothered - I have access to the software, which allows me to more precisely calibrate the calculation.

the odometer is based on how many times the wheels go round, tyres of the same spec vary from batch to batch, so unless your mileometer is recalibrated at every tyre change, and periodically recalibrated as the tyres wear down - then it is not accurate, the worst van i had was a maestro, its milage ws out by 12.5% the best was my wifes E300TD only 3.4% out

here is a picure of some tyres that I compared, they were all the same spec, 195 65 R13 (if I remember correctly)
~ 5% diff