Battery Vehicle Society

Good news!
I'm glad not to be the only one tenuously on grid and gearing up for the inevitible. We have rayburn and villager wood burning, entirly fueled by storm damage

Thanks for yr prompt responses!
I've started a new thread as well to widen debate.
What surprises me is with such reasonabe readings (6.5ish) for most of cells my range is so low

With reference to my previous post, looks like brake servo is Least of my worries. for a novice, and one who finds electrickery a mysterious and invisible force at the best of times, I'm still trying to get my head around where I'm heading next. Brilliant advice and information from grumpy et al. I'...

Right, here's the latest. Charged car as normal set off to obtain new battey for multi meiter and go to a place of safe working. Light on within 5 miles showing 91%. Limped the remaining couple of miles in 100 yard bursts, very slowly. Evlite shiwing diwn to 134 volts. Anyway took following readings...

All great plans etc..
Son in law borrowed car for a 20 mile round trip, sadly light came on and lost all power at 23 miles and 51%.
TTypically the multi meter has a low battery now, hahaha!

Yup! I admit it was at 750 hrs this time
Today I did the grandkids school run twice, 15 miles return, charging up each time. Same again tomorrow then and I will risk 40 flat miles on Thursday. Can usually get 45-50 before eco light. So much more to learn.....
Thanks again

Thanks for that tip, grumpy.
I can now report, with some relief, that the maintenance charge and 12 litres of fresh distilled water appears to have done the trick

Imagine my surprise to pass, in the opposite direction, a yellow Berlingo, clearly marked that it was electrically powered within a couple of miles of my house in mid Lincs. As I was busy trying to keep a red routemaster bus on the narrow lane, i wasn't in a position to handbrake turn and pursue. Pe...

Hello all.... New boy here who has had 9000 virtually incident free eupdated or smiles. Lately however since changing brush coincidentally, a few problems have occurred brake servo clearly not working, im assuming there is a vacuum pump somewhere, any clues? More worrying is sudden power failure las...

Hello...
I will be in the Nottingham area within next week or 2, if you still need to borrow the EVLite then let me know....