Have you ever heard of this one? “Electric vehicles are way too expensive to charge and will make your home power bill explode!” There is some truth to that statement, after all you are using more home electricity to run an EV, but the reality is much better. Over 90% of EV owners charge their car at home, overnight, and pay the BC Hydro rate (for simplicity we will use a combined rate of 12 cents per kilowatt hour) and the average EV consumes 15 kwh for every 100 km of travel. That means 100 km costs you $1.80. That same travel…
EV Myths #2 “Electric Vehicles won’t work because they don’t have the range for Canadian drivers.”
EV Myths #2 “Electric Vehicles won’t work because they don’t have the range for Canadian drivers.”
Sure, who hasn’t heard this one, but is it true for most people and most of the time? Let’s look at the daily requirements- commuting and shopping. According to Statistics Canada, the vast majority Canadians (eighty percent) have roundtrip commutes of just over 17 kilometers a day while the remaining twenty percent travelled further with an average roundtrip of eighty kilometers. Shopping for daily necessities is usually accomplished in this total. Now can electric vehicles available on the market today fulfill this need? Well, the ranges of the popular Nissan LEAF (240 Km) and Chevy Bolt (almost 400 Km) can…
The first part of that myth is battery replacement. Everyone has had the experience of needing to replace rechargeable batteries in consumer electronics, so this myth has a popular following. Looking at our smartphones, whose early batteries would fail and need replacement, or just get so weak their run time was too short for their purpose, one can understand hesitation on batteries in electric vehicles. There are two reasons that today’s EVs haven’t had the same issue- continual battery temperature management by onboard Battery Management Systems (BMS) and chemistry. From the moment an EV battery is installed and…
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