The most interesting finding from using EVs in winter is not that they consume more energy (which they do), but that charging is really slow if you don't have battery preheating. Yesterday, I arrived at a 240 kW charger with 33% SoC, the outside temperature was 0°C, and the charging power was only 35 kW (the maximum charging power of the car is 118 kW). With this charging power, it would take 40 minutes to charge to 80% SoC. We don't mind too much because we primarily use the car as a city car and do 95% of our charging at home, but if you want to have an EV as your only car and drive long distances with it even in winter, definitely get one that has battery preheating.

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The #Feyree charger for our #ElectricVehicle that I ordered a month ago has finally arrived. It charges up to 230V/16A across three phases. The current can be regulated and the charger can be controlled from #HomeAssistant over Wi-Fi. It comes with a wall mount. It could very much do the job of a wallbox for 1/3 of the price.

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I know it's become quite common, but I still think of it as a miracle of technology:

With our internal combustion engine car, someone on the other side of the world has to drill into the ground, often under the sea, pump the oil into a tanker that has to take it halfway around the world to a terminal where it is pumped into a pipeline that takes it halfway across the continent to a refinery where it has to be processed so that a truck can come and take it halfway across the country to a gas station where I can fill it up.

With our #EV, I just plug it in and charge it with energy that comes right off our roof. I can easily extend the range by 200 km on a sunny day. The energy transport distance: tens of thousands of km vs. 10 meters.

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The process of importing the #EV is finally over. It was pretty smooth on the Czech side except for a little drama at the technical inspection. Since I was buying it from an official dealer, I just checked the VIN code on the windshield, but the technical inspection needs to check the one sealed in the chassis and they couldn't find it. I had to call the German dealer and they had to ask the mechanics. It was under the carpet in the back of the trunk. 😅

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That was the last oil leak. I'm tired of having a combustion engine car as a city car and I'm getting an electronic one. After discovering yet another problem with the car today, I went from "we'll get an EV in the distant future" to booking a car inspection.

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