The Tesla Model Y is a fully electric SUV that doesn't need gas and can drive for a long distance on a single charge. It's popular because it has a lot of cool technology and is part of the trend of people wanting to drive electric cars.
The Tesla Model 3 is a popular electric car that can drive long distances on a single charge. The 2023 version has some updates that make it even better at using its battery power.
High mileage batteries are batteries in electric cars that have been used a lot, usually over 100,000 miles. They can lose some power over time, but new technology helps them last longer than people thought.
An EV, or electric vehicle, is a car that runs on electricity instead of gas. It uses batteries to power an electric motor, making it cleaner for the environment.
Battery degradation is when a battery can no longer hold as much charge as it used to. This means an electric car won't be able to drive as far on a full charge as it did when it was new.
Battery chemistry is about the materials used to make batteries and how they work. Better battery chemistry can help electric cars go further and charge faster.
The Nissan Leaf is a popular electric car that is known for being affordable and practical. It runs entirely on electricity and is designed for everyday use.
Electric vehicles are cars that run on electricity instead of gas. They have batteries that power an electric motor, making them more environmentally friendly than regular cars that use fuel.
The Volkswagen E-Golf is an electric version of the Golf car, which is a small hatchback. It was sold from 2014 to 2020 and is known for being easy to drive and good for city use.
Lithium-ion cells are batteries that store energy for electric cars. They are popular because they can hold a lot of power and last a long time without needing to be replaced.
The average selling price is how much most cars cost when you buy them. It helps you know what to expect when shopping for a new car, including electric ones.
The Skoda Octavia is a compact car that is very practical and spacious, making it a good choice for families. The speaker mentions having owned one and enjoying it.
The Volkswagen MEB is a special platform that Volkswagen uses to build electric cars. It helps them make different types of electric vehicles more efficiently.
The Hyundai Ioniq 9 is an electric SUV made by Hyundai, which is a car company from South Korea. It's designed to be efficient and offer modern features.
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is a new electric car that looks stylish and can charge quickly. It's popular because it has a lot of space inside and is good for the environment.
The Peugeot E508 is an electric car from Peugeot. It comes with two different battery options, which can affect how far you can drive on a single charge.
A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is a way to measure how much energy a battery can store. The more kWh, the further an electric car can usually go on a single charge.
The Dodge Charger is a big car that looks sporty and is known for being fast. It's popular among people who like powerful cars that can go really quickly.
Zonal Electric Architecture is a way of organizing a car's electronics into different areas, each controlled by its own computer. This makes it easier to manage and update the car's software.
Electronic control units are small computers in cars that help control things like the engine and brakes. Fewer of them can make the car easier to work on and more reliable.
The Audi RS5 is a fast and sporty car made by Audi. This year, it will be available as a plug-in hybrid, which means it can run on electricity and gasoline.
A plug-in hybrid is a car that can run on electricity and gas. You can charge its battery at home, and it can drive a certain distance using just electricity before needing gas.
A 2.5-litre engine is a type of car engine that has a total volume of 2.5 liters. This size can affect how powerful the engine is and how much fuel it uses.
An 800-volt production model is a type of electric vehicle that uses a higher voltage to charge faster and run more efficiently. This means it can get power quicker than many other electric cars.
The Renault Trafic is a type of van used mainly for work purposes. The fourth generation of this van has new features that help businesses transport goods more efficiently.
Rebadged means that a car is sold under a different brand name, even though it's basically the same vehicle. This is done to appeal to different buyers or markets.
The Volkswagen ID. Buzz is a new electric van that looks like the old VW buses but is made with modern technology. It's great for families and has a lot of space inside.
The Renault 4 CV is an old-fashioned small car from France that many people loved because it was easy to drive and park. It's often talked about by car enthusiasts who appreciate vintage vehicles.
The Lotus Exige is a small, super-fast sports car that is very light, which helps it go really fast and handle well on the road. It's loved by people who enjoy driving and want a thrilling experience.
The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a very fancy car that offers a lot of comfort and high-tech features. It's often seen as one of the best luxury cars in the world.
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Coming up today, EV batteries age slowly, slate, bets on less tech, and scotters peak.
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A 2023 Tesla Model 3 that started off with 270 miles of range will still cover 247 miles
on a full charge three years later if it's done 150,000 miles.
Petrol drivers would start to panic at that sort of drop.
Most EV owners barely notice.
High mileage batteries are degrading way less than anyone ever expected.
Recurrent, which is a former sponsor of this podcast, a data firm,
have been tracking 1,000 EVs that have now gone past 150,000 miles
and compared their real-world range to what they managed when new, not the official EPA lab numbers.
And even the oldest cars held up.
14-year-old models back to 2012 with 81% of their original battery range.
2023 models that have really high mileage at 91% of their capacity.
The shift in technology over the span of time is so stark.
Recurrence data shows that a 2023 EV has 10% less degradation
than a 2012 EV if it had the same mileage.
Better battery chemistry, tightest thermal management, more cautious buffer strategies.
You know, the bit of the battery that you can't actually use, the top end and bottom end.
Or make for the later generation of EVs to be extra long life.
Individual models follow the same pattern.
A 2015 Nissan Leaf that, let's face it, 15 years ago or 10 years ago
was 67 miles of real-world range when new would still do 56 miles after 150,000 miles on the clock.
Older EVs do degrade more and their smaller packs make each lost kilowatt hour hurt just a little bit more.
But failure rates have improved.
Only 0.3% of this current generation of electric vehicles have ever needed battery work
against 2%, which is a small number, but still, of what you would call a second generation EV.
So something from 2017, maybe through to the pandemic, 2020, 2021, sort of Gen 2-era electric vehicles.
For the first generation of mass produced EVs, I think Nissan Leafs 15 years ago, 12-year-old Volkswagen E-Golfs,
8.5% of packs needed work.
When defects appear now, car makers can often handle them preemptively.
Either through a recall, a software over-the-air update, and recurrence director of market insights, Liz Najman,
reckons new EVs should now run without battery drama for easily 15 years.
Car maker, she says, have worked out how to keep lithium-ion cells safe and more importantly drama-free
so that you'll never need to see a garage.
Now, let's talk about the American car maker that's spending a fortune on going EV with their tiny truck.
But doing the opposite to what everyone else is doing, which is to stuff their vehicles with
massive slabs of glass touchscreens, slate auto bets that you want the opposite.
Its first model, a two-door electric pickup with manual windows, no radio, and 150 miles of range,
offers very little, and that's the point of it.
The firm's wager matters because new EVs in America now cluster around $50,000.
The average selling price of a petrol and diesel car, like a petrol car in America,
is huge as well, so this isn't an EV thing, by the way.
Price, though, they won't be pinned down on it.
When Slate emerged from stealth last April, they were floating $20,000 after the federal
tax credit, which we knew was going, so MSRP $27,500.
Well, we all knew it was going, and it was a little naughty of them to say it'll be a
20 grand truck because the new administration make no secret that it was going.
But with the subsidy gone, the company are talking about a number mid-20s.
So there's a little bit of wiggle room there, but they're not naming a number.
Do they have to?
Probably not at this stage.
The chief executive, Chris Barman, plans to thrash out the numbers with suppliers,
hunting for further savings, and the bear truck marks the starting points.
Slate promises hundreds of custom options.
That's kind of the point of it, really.
Vinyl wraps, new wheels, a five-seat conversion kit, although how many people will do the
really big stuff?
We don't know.
A bigger battery?
Well, that would be 240, 250 miles.
More people would do that, but clearly that's a factory fit option.
Production starts by the end of this year.
Okay, if you want to move seven people around in electric comfort,
Scodder will soon have something to sell you.
Their new Peak PEA Q will get it in June, four years after the Vision 75 previewed it.
The usual mix of space, practicality, comfort, bit of quirkiness from Scodder.
I've owned an Octavia in the past, and Estate absolutely loved it.
And Scodder is now even so much better than when I owned one.
The importance lies less in the badge these days.
The Peak uses a new upgraded version of Volkswagen's MEB.
That's what runs beneath the L-Rock and the ENIAC and dozens of EVs.
Until now, MEB that they're building this on was the Chinese variant of MEB.
But Scodder Peak is going to be the first vehicle that brings the China
MEB version of it to Europe.
It's 4.9 meters long, so by China standards, that's actually quite a small seven-seater.
But it will become Scodder's largest model and aims at the electric seven-seat SUV segment.
So the Peugeot E5 008 is a bit smaller than this.
It's a bit smaller than the Hyundai Ioniq 9 or Kia EV9.
It's Scodder, so big value, but not ridiculously cheap.
It'll undercut an EV9.
That starts at £66,000 here, or US$82,000 equivalent.
In the Ioniq 9, a different vehicle, not just a rebadged Kia EV9, bigger battery,
that starts at £65,000 here.
The closest rival on list price would be the Peugeot E5 008.
That has two battery sizes.
And under the skin, the flagship likely mirrors the new ID-Buzz long-wheelbase,
86 kilowatt-hour battery, 370 miles of range, 200 kilowatt DC fast charging peak,
10 to 18 under 30 minutes on an ultra-rapid charger.
Looking forward to that.
VW's next electric Golf will get a new software stack.
The group has begun rolling out its Zonal Electric Architecture, and across its brands,
driven, of course, by their partnership with Rivian.
Instead of dozens of what they call domain controllers, scattered all around the vehicle,
VW divides the car into physical zones, each run by a powerful computer.
Those zone controllers sit on top of a central high-performance compute platform
that handles software links to the cloud, things like that.
The aim is to cut complexity, slash the total electronic control units,
and make it easier to update.
That matters because software now sets the pace in the car industry.
Tesla and Chinese rivals ship frequent updates and cell functions
after the cars even left the factory.
Volkswagen struggled with Apache software,
and their Cariad department has not been a shining success in terms of software.
Zonal Architecture will give it a cleaner base for code,
shorten development cycles, and allow more reuse of its software across Audi, Porsche,
and volume brands.
Looks like the Golf nameplate will be the first one to get a software-defined architecture.
Audi has quietly confirmed on LinkedIn that its RS5 comes this year
as Audi Sports' first plug-in hybrid model,
not appearing in the firm's earlier product preview for 2026.
Euro 7 rules drive the shift to plug-in hybrid,
but Audi plans to keep the cylinder count intact for those that particularly wanted.
Company officials ruled out four-cylinder RS models years ago,
with a 2.5-litre engine facing extinction under emissions rule.
So, how do you get around all of this?
Well, you add a battery.
Weight can be the enemy, of course,
when you have hybrid powertrains.
It's sometimes the best of both worlds,
and sometimes the worst of both worlds.
It's already a 2,000-kilogram car in European trim without a driver.
Then that's 155 kilograms more than a diesel S4.
So, then you add the plug-in hybrid system,
and it's well over 2,000 kilograms.
20.7 kilowatt-hour usable pack in this.
But at least for fans of that car,
it'll keep it around a bit longer,
and it'll take a few emissions boxes as well.
Let's talk electric vans.
Renault's first 800-volt production model,
not going to be a swanky Renault saloon or something.
It's going to be a van.
The fourth-generation Renault Traffic,
rebadged as the Traffic E-Tech,
lands in the European commercial van market.
And we don't have truck culture over here.
We have white van culture.
If you want to move stuff, if you're a tradie,
if you've got a business,
you drive a van, not a pickup truck over here.
Everyone's got a van.
And so it's a huge market.
And what used to be just the Ford Transit
and a couple of others,
is now a huge market.
The Chinese are coming for it as well.
But Renault, with the traffic,
been around a long time,
lining up again,
things like the Kia PV-5 cargo,
Volkswagen ID-Buzz cargo,
and built on a skateboard platform.
It'll come as a van, a chassis cab,
a platform cab, a tipper,
a flatbed and a cargo box as well,
in L1 and L2 versions.
So different lengths,
and up to 5.27 cubic meters of
storage.
Sorry, 5.8 cubic meters of storage,
payload 1.25 tons, towing 2 tons.
So very respectable there.
Single motor, 150 kilowatts of power
on that.
NMC battery packs
with 450 kilometers of WLTP range.
They say 15 to 80 in 20 minutes
because it's an 800 volt system.
LFP packs will come down the line.
They are on the way for cheaper prices.
Starting at 40,000 pounds,
that's about US$55,000 equivalent.
The switch to electric also breaks
from the current traffic's design.
If you can picture something in your
mind's eye that's a little bit more
swoopy, a little bit more perhaps
Chinese styling, shorter, flatter bonnet,
meeting the windscreen at the same
angle to cut drag
with a very different design for Renault.
It looks very slippery,
slim daytime running lights,
closed off grille, short overhangs,
I think it looks good, very futuristic.
Inside, the Renault passenger cars
like the Renault 4 e-tech,
been mined for the interior.
And again, that's a very good thing.
Big digital instrument cluster,
12-inch portrait touchscreen as well.
Renault will build the e-tech
in France, British deliveries this
time next year.
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Now the Cambridge-based
Nibolt
has shown off a new battery
that'll do 10 to 80
in 4 minutes and 37 seconds.
That's as long as most drivers
spend pumping petrol
even before the slip
into the till
waiting in line
and then tapping your card.
You're off on a way
before the person
filling up with petrol's done it.
It's a tech demonstrator
at this stage.
They put their battery inside
a Lotus Elise-styled roadster
using a Lotus Exige V6 chassis.
Actually, 470 brake horsepower
0-62 in under 4 seconds
but it's their battery technology
they're showing off.
It's a 35 kilowatt hour pack
and the 35 kilowatt hour pack
is small by modern battery standards
but it's fine for a small sports car
but it charges
at 350 kilowatts.
So you've done the math already
if you're a super nerd like me.
Yeah, that's a 10C charge rate.
A 10C rating means a full charge
in six minutes.
Now, battery's always slowed down
towards the end
but six minutes
for a full charge
and then four and a half minutes
and you're 80% and off you go.
NiBolt's trick lies in the cell chemistry.
They're using a new type of anode material
that is specially designed to cut impedance
slashing heat
and removing the need for complex cooling.
With less thermal management to do
the pack hits its peak charging power
at once rather than creeping up.
Charge and discharge performance also match
an unusual trait actually
that lets the same cells serve anything
from a mining truck
to an AI data center
to a warehouse robot.
Okay, so the Massachusetts robotics firm
Symbiotic has already fitted
NiBolt batteries to their robots.
The packs weigh 40% less
than the ultra capacitors
which are trumpeted
as being the next great technology
but they hold six times the energy
and offer 10 times the cycle life
of a lithium ion cell in tests.
They've survived more than 4000 fast charge
and discharge cycles.
That would be like a 600,000 mile
mileage EV.
So eight car makers are in talks
to adopt NiBolt cells.
They're kind of going public now
and doing a bit more publicity around it.
This is an auto car magazine,
one of the great car mags that we have over here.
The executive vice presidents,
Ramesh Nirashiman
aims for production 28 or 2029
casting it as a realistic path
as well as solid state batteries
which are coming
but the 10 minute charging
would also push more cars
through DC fast charges.
It would lift revenues for charge point operators
and if you had DC fast charging
at a track for instance
you could actually take your 35 kilowatt hour car
to a track, do a bunch of hot laps
and charge it for four and a half minutes.
While you have a slurp of a beverage
and off you go again.
Now Mercedes-Benz has won its reprieve
that it was fighting hard for.
Last December the European commission
proposed watering down the 2035
clamp down on emissions
which was effectively looking at
the emissions from earlier in the decade
and saying that they must be 100% less in 2035.
Don't care how you do it,
it can be hydrogen, it can be EV,
it can be something else you've not yet invented.
We're not saying go EV,
we're saying you have to cut emissions
from road transport
but heavy lobbying by Germany, Italy
and the car makers,
including Mercedes-Benz,
its chief executive Ola Colenius
and now saying that the 10% reduction
that the Europeans have backed down on
is not enough.
You literally can't make this up.
The draft rules reverse what was an effective ban
by letting firms sell their plug-in hybrids
and their range extenders after 2035.
Car makers can plug gaps in their CO2
reduction with lower carbon,
steel and sustainable fuels on paper.
They've now been given way more time,
way more tools to cut their fleet emissions
without having to meet 2035
which is still 10 years away
and a lot can happen.
Look at what EVs were like 10 years ago
but still the commission tied the softest
dance to a few new constraints
all quite dry
and dull rulemaking.
Stuff like binding electrification targets
to corporate fleets
having the member states fully on board
and connecting it to the country's GDP per head.
Let's not get into that.
It would push large volumes of electric
and electric vehicles into the market
especially in corporate fleets.
Colenius though who was the president
of the car making lobby, the A-C-E-A
says the door is not open enough
and warns that the added conditions
actually wipe out the benefits.
He's like a kid at Christmas
when he gets a new bike
and he's not happy.
I mean you can't please some of these car makers
that just want to carry on spewing out emissions
because they make more money out of it
and I get it.
Sucks working in an industry
that's having to make this
generational shift
because it's the right thing to do
because it's what the right thing
for consumers is
for clean air, for kids with asthma
for people with serious health problems
for people who want to drive better cars
the shift to electric transport
making the most of renewable energy.
I don't need to go on this podcast
about all the reasons we should go EV
and yet they are still not happy.
Mercedes is about to launch the revamped S-Class
that I told you about recently
a combustion car
with a tiny little battery.
He for one is unhappy
with how much leeway he's been given
and they will no doubt fight
over the next couple of years
for even more concessions
and they'll probably get them.
Let's move on.
New Jersey now tops an unenviable league table
for electric car owners
a January 2026 study by Law Bear
ranked American states on EV ownership
convenience using six factors
EVs per charging station
vehicles per charging port
electricity cost per kilowatt hour
state tax credits
EV specific fees for registration
and average temperatures
that will then affect the performance
of driving an EV
each state got a score from 0 to 100
charging access and running costs
now shape where EVs go
New Jersey ranks as the least
convenient state to own an electric vehicle
which is funny because
my friends Tom Logany
from the state of charge channel
and evchargingstations.com
has been driving an EV
in New Jersey
longer than anybody
he has had EVs for
I don't know 20 years or something
back when the original BMWs
were like lease only and stuff like that
New Jersey is the least
EV convenient state
and California
despite having
all those charging stations
actually has all those EVs as well
so it lands in third place
the nation's largest EV fleet
of more than 1.2 million vehicles
means each station has to serve over
60 cars
Washington was fourth
and so it goes down
but the map flips in New England
Vermont emerges as the most
convenient state
only 14 EVs per charging station
New Hampshire follows
Maine claims third in the convenience list
11 EVs per station
and Connecticut ranks fourth
with each serving just
six cars on average
for their charging stations
so if you're after a really easy life
now you know where to own an EV
and finally
Ferrari owners
ignore their plugs
but get more electrics
Ferrari's plug-in hybrids
do come with charging cables
but the owners barely use them
five years of data
revealed by Ferrari
show buyers run these cars
as conventional hybrids
leaning on the combustion engine
to recharge the battery
that matters because Ferrari
put serious hardware
into its plug-in systems
when the owners do charge
they tend to do so when the cars
are in storage
not in daily use
stay today
they treat the socket
as a backup
if you like
the same data
show similar neglect
of Ferrari's E-manitino modes
built to make use of plug-in hybrid technology
the four settings
E-drive
which will drive a Ferrari
on pure electric hybrid
which shuffles it around
or performance and qualifying mode
all on the steering wheel
the first two are never used
by Ferrari owners
customers spend all their time
in performance or qualifying
I kind of don't blame them
because they just bought a Ferrari
no one steeped in Ferrari law
will be gasping at this
few brands
tie their image so tightly
to pistons and pipes
Ferrari itself frames electrification
as a tool to raise
the performance of an engine
not about lowering emissions
or anything like that
the new Testerosa makes that plane
over 1,000 horsepower
in total
but also with three electric motors
and Ferrari now plans to build
batteries in-house
which should give it tighter control
over durability and scope
on upgrades later
the firm is doubling down
on their hardware
even as their owners treat it
as a spare tire
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I used to work for a chap
that owned many Ferraris
and he kept them all plugged in
but only to keep the 12 volt battery
topped up
I'm not sure any of his Ferraris
were plug-in hybrids
he also had a Formula 1 car
in his office
this dude was
yeah I guess dude's the best way
to describe it
like he had some money
there was also an armed guard
in his office
it is just when I worked for a company
that was headquartered in America
and uh
yeah he kept his Ferraris at work
so there was all the desks
with the office workers
and then a whole another part of the office
where he just kept his cars
because
why not go to work every day
and look at your car collection
because why not
so he did plug his Ferraris in
but it was only about the 12 volt
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About this episode
Batteries in electric vehicles are aging more slowly than expected, with high-mileage models retaining impressive range. A new company, Slate, is betting on minimal tech in their electric pickup, while Skoda prepares to launch a new seven-seater SUV using a Chinese platform. The episode also discusses advancements in EV battery longevity, the impact of software updates in modern vehicles, and the introduction of Renault's first 800-volt electric van, highlighting the evolving landscape of the EV market.
