The Electric Car Thread

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mert

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Lifting off gives too much braking and can cause a slide.

Do you get no TC intervention at all? What car is that, i need to go play! Nothing i’ve driven or benchmarked behaves like that

TBH I was messing about to see what would happen when lifting off fully, so no modulation at all.  This was on quiet untreated country roads which were frozen over.

Car is an Ionic classic, and as i have noted previously, it’s quite wheelspin happy in the cold and damp with too much enthusiasm.

To counter this, I’m pretty sure that TC and stability have saved me since when I caught a large puddle of diesel on a roundabout

Update on regen slidiness – the car has always (for 70,000miles of use) had Michelin eco or then Primacy 4 (much better than the OEM Eco ones)tyres on as i was paranoid about range.  The rears were replaced with CrossClimate2 a little while ago, and then the fronts replaced last week with CC2 as well as am more confident with range and charge network much improved.

It’s like a different car – was always slippy and nervous in cold damp, now much more confident. In the snow at the weekend the car was confident, and then today with the roads white all over i tried out lifting off with full regen and it slowed down normally.

Makes sense of course, but was a little surprised at the amount of difference.

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mert

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Lifting off gives too much braking and can cause a slide.

Do you get no TC intervention at all? What car is that, i need to go play! Nothing i’ve driven or benchmarked behaves like that

TBH I was messing about to see what would happen when lifting off fully, so no modulation at all.  This was on quiet untreated country roads which were frozen over.

Car is an Ionic classic, and as i have noted previously, it’s quite wheelspin happy in the cold and damp with too much enthusiasm.

To counter this, I’m pretty sure that TC and stability have saved me since when I caught a large puddle of diesel on a roundabout

Update on regen slidiness – the car has always (for 70,000miles of use) had Michelin eco or then Primacy 4 (much better than the OEM Eco ones)tyres on as i was paranoid about range.  The rears were replaced with CrossClimate2 a little while ago, and then the fronts replaced last week with CC2 as well as am more confident with range and charge network much improved.

It’s like a different car – was always slippy and nervous in cold damp, now much more confident. In the snow at the weekend the car was confident, and then today with the roads white all over i tried out lifting off with full regen and it slowed down normally.

Makes sense of course, but was a little surprised at the amount of difference.

Lifting off gives too much braking and can cause a slide.

Do you get no TC intervention at all? What car is that, i need to go play! Nothing i’ve driven or benchmarked behaves like that

My Ioniq was returned to me with a clean bill of health. On reversing in to a parking spot at home bargins I thought they had upgraded the reversing camera to a 4k resolution?! They hadn’t tho, they had just given the car a decent wash!    🙂

Well that was an interesting drive home.

Reasonable dump of snow in East Sussex and as ever the combination of front wheel drive but no actual proper weight over the front wheels but lots in the middle of the car plus zero ability to change up a gear on a hill climb meant the Leaf was as crap as ever in the thin covering of snow. I had to keep slowing down to get a run up and hope nobody slotted in the gap…..saw two accidents on the way home and had to put my snowsocks on to get into my road as its a block paved single track incline which is slippery when wet let alone icy. Made it but there will be zero chance of getting out again if it freezes overnight

Sometimes I really miss my Terracan!

I have to be honest and say I prefer driving an ICE car in the snow and ice compared to my EV, the Born doesn’t have a choice of regen braking, it on or off. When it’s on and I take my foot of the accelerator it was sketchy on the ice, trying to brake on the ice. If I turned it off I was struggling to get the right amount of braking. I also found there is too much power, before I would be pulling away in 2nd gear in ice/snow to keep the revs down but can’t do that in the EV and feathering the accelerator is tricky.

Interesting thread on Pistonheads at the moment regarding electric cars which are sliding hours after being parked up as they are parked on an incline and on snow. Appears they like to go for a slide more than an ICE car does

I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s related to lots of them coming with OEM low rolling resistance tyres?

Appears they like to go for a slide more than an ICE car does

Maybe due to less radiated heat after driving? They just sit on top of the ice and snow. Your dino juice car radiates masses of heat from the engine bay, melts the ice around and under the tyres (unless it’s really cold).

Interesting thread on Pistonheads at the moment regarding electric cars which are sliding hours after being parked up as they are parked on an incline and on snow. Appears they like to go for a slide more than an ICE car does

funny you say this as exactly this happened to me the other day. Parked up in my usual car park which is on an incline. The car park was covered in snow so I picked a spot that was snow free (obviously had been a car in this spot when the snow fell keeping the ground clear). The last couple of days never really got above freezing so the ground was quite icy. Went back to the car a few hours later to find it had slid about 5 car lengths down the hill! Lucky the car park was deserted so it never hit anything. Not sure if it’s the extra weight of the car or just me being stupid parking on an icy hill?

Like Winston, I encountered the huge snow dump driving back to Hove after school pickup…

However, AWD and all season tyres meant my driving was little, if any, different!!!

#brag!

Was funny watching a merc AMG absolutely floor it, engine roaring, to even get moving though!

DrP