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I don't know why people are saying a 200km range is bad. Most people I know don't drive more than 25km to work per day. Surely even 100km is perfectly fine for a daily driver.
My brother had an 80km range car for years and was perfectly fine.
Is it just that it's not competitive at this price?
Exactly, most people just go to work, Kaufland and to visit grandma who most of the time is 100km away. You're not buying a Dacia Spring to go from Lisbon to Oslo, you're buying it as a car for daily use.
Thank you for considering Lisbon in your thoughts. It's very appreciated.
Because propaganda has convinced people that a car is useless if it can't go 300+mi AND only take a few minutes to be ready to do it again. Range anxiety, even though they only fill up maybe once a week and could easily charge an ev at home with just a standard outlet not even a special charger and keep up with their actual real daily use
It's a really low price, but it's also an incredibly shitty car with terrible safety scores.
And terrible range. Advertises 300Km per charge. You're lucky if you get 200
Not everyone lives in the US. In Germany, 70% of all distances traveled by car are only 10 kilometers or less.
US still just averages 65 kilometers per day.
Don't assume everyone replying in a way you don't agree with lives in the US. I am speaking from experience living in the Luxembourg/Germany area...
Even Germans take vacation to visit relatives and vacation homes. A range like that easily doubles a 200Km drive's travel time.
It's good if you don't long-distance travel by car, or if you use it as a secondary car for work commutes. Then it's perfect.
Hilarious.If there was any European who is closest to the American car ethos, it's got to be the Germans. Those autobahns, man. :)
Trust me, Luxembourgers are worse. Germans have decent public transport in their metropolitan areas. Luxembourg otoh is more like US suburbia.
I knew that this argument would be the second possibility. German Reichweitenangst is strong with you, too it seems.
I mean, that's pretty on par for other manufacturers, rule of thumb is about half of rated range during winter. It's not really the manufactures fault that part, the WLTP standard they have to use is just using a way too high percentage of steady-speed city driving to give a good idea of real-world usage for most people.
So, a Dacia?
Bad news!
The Dacia Sandero has been delayed.
Dacia Spring product website (DE)
To take advantage of the full €5,000 off, buyers must sign a purchase or lease agreement by February 28. On top of that, the car needs to be registered no later than June 30.
Sounds like a clear out to make room for new stock.
"The all-electric Dacia Spring now starts at just €11,900 (around $13,900), thanks to a massive €5,000 (around $5,900 at current exchange rates) discount."
24kwh battery, 300 km range or so .
300 km out of 24 kWh?
Press X to doubt.
Depends on the weight of the vehicle.
Most of the people in this post complaining about the range obviously aren't EV owners. I've just done a multi-country road trip covering thousands of km. Taking a 20 minute break every few hours is hardly arduous, you'd be doing something similar on your own anyway.
I agree. You have to take a quick stop anyway to go to the toilet, relax your muscles, eating a snack. So you'd still do it, while your car is quickly charging.
I'd really like to get this car but most people have told me it's too risky for me, anyone else has any input?
I can't load at home or work, but I could load at a station accessible by foot a few minutes from my house, as well as once a week when I go shopping for about 30-45 minutes.
I only have to drive twice a week, 90km per day two days in a row, with no opportunity to load in between, but I could load the day before and the day after.
People have told me it's too risky especially in winter I might not make it on that distance.
I have this car since 2024. The previous generation. I can answer some more questions if you wish.
I charge at home. Sometimes at DC when I do some longer trips. Longest was 300km at once. Had to do 2 stops 30 minutes each.
Normally in the summer I get 2km per 1% of battery. That is 11kw/h while driving 110km/h on the Autobahn. During winter it goes down to 1,5km per 1%.
That means I can safely drive 160km in one hop and the charge with some bigger buffer during summer. 100km during winter.
That is for a long trips. I use this car mainly to move around my city. If I wouldn’t charge it at home I’d charge it during weekend groceries. 40 minutes charging on any DC charger would bump it up to 90% easily. So groceries time.
Apart of this this car is a banger. A classic car with no bullshit digital stuff, but electric.
