{"id":8556,"date":"2024-03-13T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:14:50","slug":"an-uphill-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2024\/03\/13\/an-uphill-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"An Uphill Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Williamson was a TV journalist well known for his <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/1217016.stm\">interviews with children<\/a>. \u00a0One day he asked a young girl who she was painting, and she said, \u201cGod\u201d. \u00a0Williamson gently protested that no one knew what God looked like. \u201cWell\", she said, \"They know now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And so do prospective BEV owners after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatcar.com\/news\/inaccuracy-of-official-ev-range-figures-exposed\/n26630\">What Car's tests<\/a> on a range of models revealed that in real world conditions they do considerably fewer miles that the official tests claim. \u00a0This is, sadly, unsurprising. \u00a0Examples are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BYD Dolphin Design \u00a0265 \u00a0=&gt; \u00a0188<\/p>\n<p>MG 4 Extended Range Trophy \u00a0323 \u00a0=&gt; \u00a0227<\/p>\n<p>Tesla Model 3 Long Range \u00a0390 \u00a0=&gt; \u00a0293<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen ID 7 Pro Match \u00a0383 \u00a0=&gt; \u00a0254<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Existing BEV drivers know this already, of course; just as they know that you get fewer miles in Winter than in Summer.<\/p>\n<p>What they also know is that travelling uphill takes more power than going downhill. \u00a0Of course, all drivers know this must be true of any journey no matter what power you're using, it's just that in a BEV it can be dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>I travel to Devizes every week; it's uphill and the 12 mile journey takes about 25 miles of charge if I drive carefully. \u00a0Coming back, thanks to prudent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoexpress.co.uk\/tips-advice\/353643\/regenerative-braking-what-it-and-how-does-it-work\">regenerative braking<\/a>, it takes ~0 miles of charge.<\/p>\n<p>I fear that this range revelation is another blow to the government's dream of everyone driving a BEV sometime soon. \u00a0A good job they relaxed the rules to a more realistic level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Williamson was a TV journalist well known for his interviews with children. \u00a0One day he asked a young girl who she was painting, and she said, \u201cGod\u201d. \u00a0Williamson gently protested that no one knew what God looked like. \u201cWell\",...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}