An Anonymous Coward writes:
Until now, electric cars could be broken down nicely -- at the high end there is Tesla S & X, and then there is everything else (possibly including Tesla 3). A few possible competitors either quit early (Fisker) or haven't made it to production yet (Lucid, Faraday Future). This split covered price, luxury and range. Now there is a serious competitor from Jaguar and Motor Trend tested the I-Pace in Europe. While they report trouble finding charging points (it's a new car after all), they generally seemed to be impressed.
As BEV platforms go, the I-Pace’s skateboard layout is conventional. There’s a motor at each end, one driving the front wheels, the other the rear, and in between is a liquid-cooled 90-kW-hr battery pack with 432 lithium-ion cells that also provides structural integrity for the chassis. The Jaguar-developed motors are synchronous permanent magnet units with concentric transmissions that align the motors with the axles. Total output is 394 hp and 512 lb-ft.
[...] Much of Germany’s autobahn is subject to speed limits, so we spend a lot of time at 75–80 mph. There’s not much wind today, but the higher speed boosts consumption to 43 kW-hr per 100 miles. On one derestricted stretch I wind the I-Pace up near its 124-mph Vmax. It gets there easily, but I burn 6 miles of range in the process (and yes, a gasoline version would also burn fuel with such a surge). Feeling guilty at the extravagance, I back off and settle down to 75–80 mph again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @03:36PM (1 child)
> *All* early cars were electric
Citation needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen [wikipedia.org]
> The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885, is sometimes regarded as the world's first 'production' automobile,[1] that is, a vehicle designed to be propelled by an internal combustion engine. The original cost of the vehicle in 1885 was 600 imperial German marks,[2] approximately 150 US dollars (equivalent to $4,086 in 2017).
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> Benz unveiled his invention to the public on 3 July 1886, on the Ringstrasse in Mannheim.
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> About 25 Patent-Motorwagens were built between 1886 and 1893.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Saturday June 09 2018, @07:59PM
First (model) electric car: 1828. They didn't start becoming practical until the invention of the lead-acid battery in 1859
"English inventor Thomas Parker, ... , built the first production electric car in London in 1884"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle [wikipedia.org]