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The 1000km Day by Driven
11 October 2022
BYD ATTO 3 Road Trip Review: The 1000km Day
By David Linklater from Driven
"Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are a hot topic. And the hot topics around BEVs are range anxiety and charge anxiety: how far you can drive before the battery is depleted, and how long it’s going to take to charge it up again once that happens.
There are still plenty of BEV sceptics out there. In our experience, the most common challenge to the viability of the technology is: show me a BEV that can go from Auckland to Wellington without stress, and I’ll be interested. It’s amazing how many people need to drive down the North Island as quickly as possible."
"So here’s how we did it: straight down State Highway 1, starting in Auckland with a 100 per cent charge. We stopped in Taupo at the 300kW Hyper Charger after 282km, and again in Taihape at a 50kW station after 421km. Then through to Wellington, to a 50kW ChargeNet station in Grey Street, right in the CBD.
Total time spent waiting for the car to charge on the journey was 67 minutes, which was not really “waiting time” because we used it as coffee/food/leg-stretch break time. That’s the way you do it with BEVs."
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