Looking back over the past decade, it’s fascinating to see how much technology has evolved.
In 2015, the Volkswagen e-Golf was one of the top EVs available, offering optional fast charging and a range of just 125 km.
Did anyone here drive an EV 10 years ago? What was your experience like?
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I still see these in the Pacific Northwest, they’re classy looking!
I like its boring look, I think it fits the car
I disagree, this was an example of the mindset, that caused electric cars to be unpopular before the Tesla S.
Because the batteries were expensive, everybody made small cars that were basically useless for anything but very short trips, and sales of them were almost non existent for good reason.This car came out even AFTER it IMO was shown to be a bad model to make such short range cars.
Luckily today VW-group makes many attractive models, that have good range and competitive prices. With the high quality throughout all components of the car many love here in Europe.
I still feel like, at least for urban use, that a smaller battery with faster charge times are better than a long range battery
A larger battery is easier to get to charge at higher rates. So charging for a 50 km drive, can generally be done faster on a bigger battery.
And it will last longer, because the wear is per “full” recharge, where obviously for the same amount of distance, a bigger battery will require fewer percent of a full recharge.That said, of course a smaller battery could in theory be of higher quality. But that’s usually not how it works.
Battery sizes and charging speeds correlate, I think this is one of the main reasons we see cars with almost 100kwh of battery nowadays.