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      07-20-2023, 04:08 PM   #131
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Originally Posted by i4M50Guy View Post
But that’s quite an old car now. Battery tech has came a long way since then, hence why BMW stopped doing the range extender model. The average person (in the UK) drives less than 100 miles a week. There’s no real need for crazy levels of range that people seem to want.
Until charging gets way better there is. Part of the issue is so much is linked to pack size. How much power you can pull out. A powerful car needs a big pack. Charge rate too. You can charge more miles a minute on a bigger pack. Long term battery health too as a smaller pack has to be driven harder and taken to there extremes of capacity more often. Plus things that impact range like driving on a cold day in snow,or towing something. It's easier to drop below critical range.
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