Comments on: VW up! Electric Car http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/21/vw-up-electric-car/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Ronald Brakels http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/21/vw-up-electric-car/#comment-156006 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49892#comment-156006 Should be more. Maybe 9 to 10 kilometres per kilowatt-hour as I would expect the minimum normal charge to be about 20% of the battery pack’s total capacity.

]]> By: Otis11 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/21/vw-up-electric-car/#comment-155950 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:58:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49892#comment-155950 Wow, so you can charge a 72 mile range in 30 minutes! That’s pretty good!

]]> By: Derek Bolton http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/21/vw-up-electric-car/#comment-155824 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49892#comment-155824 e-up!? Are they using a marketing company from Yorkshire?

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/21/vw-up-electric-car/#comment-155809 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49892#comment-155809 EVs are much greener than even the most efficient gas-powered cars even when charged on a dirty grid. However, Germany’s grid is one of the cleanest in the world, and is getting cleaner every day, so i don’t think that’s a concern.
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/18/electric-vehicles-greenhouse-gas-emissions-save-money/
http://cleantechnica.com/tag/germany/

]]> By: Madan Rajan http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/21/vw-up-electric-car/#comment-155673 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:37:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49892#comment-155673 Finally Germans are getting into Electric Cars. Hope Volkswagen prices it affordably.

Its also very important that Germans don’t use coal to run these cars. Last year Germany’s coal consumption increased.
http://notrickszone.com/2013/01/12/germanys-green-energiewende-energy-transition-has-only-led-to-greater-coal-consumption/

Meanwhile Chinese are building Gen-4 reactor and this could provide cheap clean energy.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ENF-Chinese_HTGR_fuel_plant_under_construction-2103134.html

]]> By: Rhodomel Meads http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/21/vw-up-electric-car/#comment-155655 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:50:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49892#comment-155655 you don’t fully charge your battery…. that’s very bad for its life.
you also don’t fully discharge your battery … it can become a total brick like the Tesla.

To have a battery achieve longer life, you maintain and operate within State Of Charges, the upper limit not reaching full recharge, and not going below the lower limit of energy that needs to be left in the battery. While the battery may be 18.7kWh, it will not be used fully, or else you ruin the battery quickly.

So what really is the useful working kWh of this battery? Why do Reporters never read the fine print about this very important information?

]]> By: jburt56 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/21/vw-up-electric-car/#comment-155646 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:18:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49892#comment-155646 How many miles or km per kWh?

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