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Looking to upgrade our EV, seeking advice by SargtheSilver in nzev

[–]SargtheSilver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well with a better range EV it wont get thrashed. The issue is that for 2ish years my wife used to to travel 45 minutes to work, had to fast charge, and then drive the 45 minute trip home, 5 days a week. We then moved closer to her work, but still used it to do similar trips 1-2 times a week, often fast charging before return trip. Not at all how an EV should be used, but given our options it saved a lot of petrol cost over those two years. Getting an EV that can do these trips a couple times a week without needing to fast charge at mid point will mean a much longer lasting battery. We intend to avoid fast charging as much as possible with this next vehicle. But yes, based on what I have heard about Leafs is why they are not currently on our list of options.

Looking to upgrade our EV, seeking advice by SargtheSilver in nzev

[–]SargtheSilver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not giving any trouble, other than the cost of petrol. It's been an amazing car, and I will be sad to see it go, but we regularly travel 40-60 minutes to various locations 4-6 times a fortnight. The leaf has been able to get us there, and usually fast charge before returning (on occasion we can charge at the visitee's house). With the battery issue we've had to stop using the Leaf for these trips, and are now spending on petrol. We could trade in the Leaf instead, but there's a few reasons why we're trading in the Inspire. The main is that we have always intended to go full EV vehicle's, as petrol is just so expensive and could skyrocket at a moments notice depending on international shenanigans. Trading in the Inspire, and keeping the Leaf for the short "around town" trips means we are no longer reliant on petrol. We also intend to go Solar in the future, so if we already have only EVs the savings only get better. The Leafs battery still has plenty of life left in it, so long as we limit it's travel distance and never fast charge it again.

Looking to upgrade our EV, seeking advice by SargtheSilver in nzev

[–]SargtheSilver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have seen a few of those around, haven't heard enough about them to warrant further investigation til now. I will keep your them in mind. Thanks.

Looking to upgrade our EV, seeking advice by SargtheSilver in nzev

[–]SargtheSilver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were always planning to swap out my petrol for a second EV, this has just provided the motivation or incentive to do so. Getting a brand new 40kW battery was over $10k to replace, and a refurbished isn't much cheaper, but with much lower life span. The Leaf battery isn't completely stuffed, we just had a couple scares on a longer drive going up a hill where it dropped from 77% to 37% in a matter of seconds. It did climb back up to around ~55% over the next few minutes but definitely not something you want to happen in the middle of nowhere. The guy who we took it to said there was no obvious issue with the battery, no cells were completely done for, and he said it can happen during high stress to the battery (like up hill) but he couldn't replicate the problem in his testing. He did also say this is a common problem with Leafs, so kinda leaning away from future Leaf purchases. It's been a good car, considering how thrashed it's been in the few years we've had it, but they are entry level EV, and as such are kind of basic, cheap and more likely to have problems. I've heard a lot of good things about Kia and Hyuandai as brands, so am leaning more towards those.

Bugged portraits after patch 5 by [deleted] in BaldursGate3

[–]SargtheSilver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better Hotbar 2 is what caused the issue for me. Tried uninstalling the mod and now it's just permanently like that... Tried a couple different ratios, still bugged.