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  1. At least one Tour de France team (Uno-X Mobility) using EVs for their race vehicles: 👍️

    The SBS commentator (David McKenzie) being surprised that an electric car can go far enough to make it through the day (maybe 200 km of driving): 🙄

    #CouchPeleton #TdF2026 #ElectricCar #EV

  2. At least one Tour de France team (Uno-X Mobility) using EVs for their race vehicles: 👍️

    The SBS commentator (David McKenzie) being surprised that an electric car can go far enough to make it through the day (maybe 200 km of driving): 🙄

    #CouchPeleton #TdF2026 #ElectricCar #EV

  3. Additionally, if you find you have a remaining balance in your Miio app wallet, you can request this refunded to you through support who will ask for your IBAN and associated account name. Should take around 30 days while they wait for any lingering charger payments to come through

    #electriccar #travel #infrastructure

  4. Finally a car for ordinary people.

    I have been waiting for something like this for a long time.

    Instead of useless trucks or speed cars, this can be used by ordinary people and actually make a difference in extremely polluted cities like Mexico City or Tehran.

    Imagine if most taxis in a 10M inhabitant city were electric, it would really make a huge difference in the quality of air and the economy of the city.

    And for that price, it is going to be a real game changer (i am sure the actual price will be twice the one mentioned in the article).

    #EV #Olina #Mexico #ElectricCar #Environment #Cars
    electrek.co/2026/06/08/9000-ev

  5. If you travel to Portugal 🇵🇹 and hire an electric car from Europcar, here’s a tip: download the Miio app and register. It’ll make finding and using a charging station a whole lot easier.

    This may work for all hire companies and in other countries, but I haven’t done the research to confirm this.

    I had a lot of trouble yesterday trying to do the first charge of the hired Jeep Avenger electric. Most stations require a special physical NFC card.

    #electriccar #travel #infrastructure

  6. I saw the nicest, most practical everyday use EV in Antibes today.

    It is like a new version of the old Volvo 745 made by BYD
    Finally a car that is not just an ego boost and actually good for people who want to use a car for transport.

    #EV #BYD #ElectricCar #StationVagon #France
    gneenev.com/product/electric-c

  7. In its own space
    The Zhiji LS6 has made it to New Zealand, as the IM Motors IM6 presented by MG Motor. Just how will an EV from a premium sub-brand, with SAIC’s highest-tech offerings, fare when it is a category of its own? Jack Yan looks at the IM6 Performance

    lucire.com/2026/0523ll0.shtml #智己 #上海汽車 #上汽 #IM6 #IMMotors #MG #SAIC #car #living #luxury #LuxuryLine #EV #ElectricCar

  8. This is an ev I would buy.

    It's perfect for small house in the woods, to be able to travel and transport goods easily and safely.

    This is quiet amazing. I wish we could have access to it here in France

    vm.tiktok.com/ZNRnaK6b5/

    #EV #UtilityCar #China #ElectricCar

  9. https://carbuzz.com/highways-funding-electric-vehicle-fees/

    Honestly that's less than MO already charges me for the privilege of driving an electric vehicle, plus going electric means I'm getting over on the IRS at tax time, so I'm not majorly worried about this. That said, I do wish they'd go with a mileage based system, at least here in MO we more or less have a system in place for that.


    #USPol #Electric-Car #Gas-Tax
  10. Sometimes people tell us to "get a job" as if it's that simple.

    There are multitudinous good reasons why we:
    1. Consider our work for Vulpine Labs and the local community more important than any run of the mill "job".
    2. Cannot seriously be expected to attain traditional employment.
    3. Shun traditional models of pay in favour of Mutual Aid.

    And we won't let capitalism grind us down.

    Today, Atha:
    Reset the mouse traps in the bus
    Cleared snow off the bus and car (altitude does not care for your "seasons", mere mortals)
    Got a new phone from a good friend
    Set up an LELink LeafSpy OBD2 device to help diagnose and fix the car
    Did some reading at the library to get back in the mood for learning Python

    And Inara:
    Did trans HRT injections
    Did some cleaning and tidying
    Took the car to do a slow charge session
    Did some phone setup
    Will likely cook food for us and a homeless friend, and do some VR.

    If you want to fling us some currency to keep the mardy old system at bay and fill up the bus's thirsty diesel tank, feel free to send to
    ko-fi.com/athakitsune or
    PayPal.me/athamanatha or
    Cashapp $athamanatha
    Wise and some limited bank transfer options also available on request.

    #buslife #poor #mutualaid #pleasedonate #helpfolkslive2026 #helpthehomeless #share4reach #boost4reach #queermutualaid #homeless #queer #homelessmutualaid #trans #transmutualaid #hrt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqia2plus #electriccar #diagnostics #EV #nissanleaf #snow #library #books #python #programming #syntax #code #androidphone #unemployable #unemployed #underemployed #volunteering #community #fuelprices #communesandconvoys

  11. Range anxiety? Yeah, nah.

    This was mostly intentional. It is recommended, every now and then, to run the battery down to under 10% and then charge to 100% in one go. This gives the battery management system an opportunity to recalibrate its state of charge measurements, ensuring it will give accurate percent remaining readings.

    #ElectricCar #EV #BYD #BYDSeal

  12. If you read the first sentence of that and are thinking, "hang on, do BYD Seals come with a dashcam or not?" the answer is they do come with one. In China.

    To avoid potential privacy concerns BYD leave out the dashcam camera module when assembling export Seals, but the missing modules are readily available from AliExpress, etc., for about $100. I just had to buy one, pop open the windscreen electronics housing, click the camera into place, plug in the cable that was already there, and stick a microSD card in the slot below the centre console.

    The video isn't great, it only records from a single camera, and only when the car is turned on (no "sentry mode" here), but it's cheaper and less faff than getting a 3rd party dashcam wired up.

    #BYD #BYDSeal #EV #ElectricCar

  13. I finally remembered that our Seal has the OEM dashcam installed, so there would be video of our wallaby encounters between Tenterfield and Glen Innes during our drive back to Sydney from Brisbane. They hadn't been overwritten yet so I was able to grab the relevant bits.

    The video quality is pretty rubbish but it's better than nothing, and the data overlay is neat.

    #EV #EVRoadTrip #ElectricCar #BYD #BYDSeal

  14. So, I just posted this on Reddit, the info here is stuff I've shared in replies here and on my Friendica about the cost of doing gig work in an electric car.

    So, since I was talking with someone about this on my Friendica, I pulled together the numbers for the last billing period of what it cost me to be doing gig last mile delivery work using a Bolt. Even thought I expected there to be some savings, its still rather mind boggling just how cheap it is. Right now I'm running a 2023 Bolt EUV Premier that I kinda inherited when my husband passed, but before that was a 2020 Bolt LT (or whatever the base is).
    So, I drive a lot, if'n you don't want to bother doing the math on the second pick, that's 1733 miles during that billing period. As well as the $35 the power company sees in the first pic, there was one public charging at a GM Energy station which didn't cost me anything, but would've been around $12, and I really didn't even need to charge that much, I just wanted to have some extra on the trip home in case I decided to pick up some hot shot work along the way. As to maintenance, $0 regularly scheduled maintenance. I did have some tire related expenses, but since those aren't standard maintenance (and also hard to calculate), I'm not counting that. The original tires, well the fronts, needed replacing so I swapped the tires and wheels I'd saved from the 2020 when I sold it, steelies and regular all season tires on, and yes, those do impact range, but the low repair/replace costs are worth it in my opinion considering the likelihood of damage in my job.
    To make these savings even more impressive, before I went electric, I was driving a base model 2018 Subaru Crosstrek with a 6 speed manual. Fuel with discounts ran at least $50 a week, most repair parts are dealer only (seriously, even wiper blades are hard to come by), and oil changes required full synthetic 0W30 every 6K miles at $110 from Jiffy Lube.
    So for anyone wondering if'n going electric is worth it, I'd say yes, even without the rebate.


    #Electric-Car #Costs #EV #Delivery #Driving
  15. Bonsoir Alphonse :)

    Maybe one shouldn't be happy about getting a new car. But honestly this year hasn't been very kind so far.
    The first hour of driving my own #electriccar was wonderful, even if I got caught in a Freiburg traffic jam.

  16. Home again. Our road trip from Sydney to Brisbane totalled 2616.9 km over 17 days. I noticed that the media were running their "long queues at EV chargers" stories again over the Easter long weekend so I'll just note that during our entire trip we had to wait for a charger a total of once, for 15 minutes. Most of the times I charged the car ours was the only car charging.

    Today's drive from Glen Innes to Sydney went smoothly. We drove to Armidale where we charged and had an early lunch (including, for me, a massive coffee), then drove Thunderbolt's Way through Gloucester to Raymond Terrace where we topped up the car again and had dinner. After that it was just a boring drive down the Pacific Motorway to Sydney.

    Minor rant again about the stupid Tesla chargers. Tesla took government subsidies to build these chargers and in exchange had to open them to non-Tesla cars, but they still insisted on placing the chargers between parking bays. The cables are just long enough to stretch across to the other side of the bay for cars that have their charging port on the other side but the main problem is that Tesla makes no effort to make it clear which charger is supposed to be used from which bay. No signage, no markings on the ground, you're just supposed to know. Consequently a lot of drivers of non-Tesla cars who either don't know or don't care just plug in whichever charger is nearest to their car's charging port, and if they use the wrong side then they effectively occupy two spaces. I saw two cars doing this today.

    Tesla should put the chargers in the middle of the bay so the cable can easily reach either side and it's obvious which charger goes with which bay, but failing that they could at least put up some signs.

    #EV #EVRoadTrip #ElectricCar #BYD #BYDSeal

  17. So far so good. Charged at our favourite AmpCharge before leaving Brisbane, topped up at the awkward wrong-side chargers in Tenterfield, and made it to our motel in Glen Innes in time to go get a chicken parmi at the Railway Tavern.

    In hindsight it would have been good to leave Brisbane about an hour earlier so that we'd have arrived in Glen Innes well before sunset. As it was we ended up driving the last half an hour or so during dusk and had several close encounters with wallabies between Tenterfield and Glen Innes. Nothing requiring full on emergency braking fortunately, but at one point we did have to quickly stop due to a group of 3 wallabies just standing in the middle of the road in front of us.

    #EV #EVRoadTrip #ElectricCar #BYD #BYDSeal

  18. The drive back to Sydney begins tomorrow. About 1000 km with an overnight stop in a motel in Glen Innes.

    We could potentially save about 25 minutes by going back via Gloucester instead of Tamworth. There's some nice scenic bits that way, but more demanding driving and fewer good places to take a break. I'll see how I feel on the day.

    #EV #ElectricCar #EVRoadTrip #BYD #BYDSeal

  19. These chargers at Ampol North Lakes are a good design. Long cables with hinged support arms, which means that despite the charger being positioned between the two parking bays you can use either side, park either way around, and still reach your charging port regardless of which of the four corners of your car it's located on.

    They're 160 kW chargers which is no longer cutting edge, but our car can only handle a max of 150 kW anyway so that's a non-issue for me.

    #EV #ElectricCar #BYD #BYDSeal #EVRoadTrip

  20. The journey to Brisbane was completed in accordance with the plan. Charged in Tamworth while having breakfast and in Tenterfield while having lunch, and made a couple of other quick stops for driver swaps and toilet breaks.

    Tenterfield was the only time we had to wait for a charger, fortunately just for 15 minutes. Tesla's lopsided charger designs are awkward for non-Teslas that have their charging ports on the correct side of the car, but fortunately the cable was just long enough to reach across.

    Tesla cars were very much in the minority at these chargers while we were there, a reflection of the fact that there are no other good ones nearby. There are NMRA chargers in Tenterfield and Glen Innes, and a Chargefox in Stanthorpe, but they are all single chargers with max charging rates of only 50 kW for the NRMA chargers and 75 kW for the Chargefox. By contrast the 4 Tesla chargers in Tenterfield are nominally capable of up to 250 kW if your car is too.

    #EV #ElectricCar #BYD #BYDSeal #EVRoadTrip