The EV Thread. Fully Electric Vehicles Exclusive Discussion

[AkbarGr8]

Does the Seres 3 have active or passive (i.e air) cooling for its battery? Good to know that the car is performing well in the EU.

[ifadey]

It has active cooling system. There's coolant flowing through motor, inverter, and batteries. That coolant cools down via radiator. If there's not enough air flow, radiator fan kicks in.
Similarly, while charging if the batteries heat up like during summer or when DC fast charging, the fan keeps running.
It even has heat pump for extreme cold temperatures. If the battery temp is near zero, the heat pump heats the coolant which in turn heatup the batteries.

[AkbarGr8]

Fantastic! Personally I'd love to get a Nissan Leaf but the lack of active battery cooling is a huge turn off!

[ifadey]

Nissan Leaf is a bad idea for hot weather. People have reported 10% battery degradation per year. This is due passive cooling system. Leaf is successful in cold areas

[pwuser16940772426]

Any idea about the battery chemistry. Is it lifepo4 or lithium ion? As lifepo4 is more heat resistant

[ifadey]

Battery chemistry is NCM with life of 2000 cycles.

Someone posted this in Europe group. It's a sticker on the battery. The owner took the image when the vehicle was jacked up for service in dealership

[darthvader]

You can see even in the videos of Seres 3 that it has a cheap, low quality interior.

[pwuser16940772426]

That is dated 2021 Jan 19 th. We need latest facelift model stamp.

[ifadey]

All the reviewers said it has much better quality than Glory. I suggest you check yourself at dealership. But again that is CBU. Not sure how good CKD will be. Only time will tell.

[ifadey]

Then wait for CKD deliveries

[j_aquil]

https://www.facebook.com/oklapakistan

[j_aquil]

Honri Ve Unveiled – Exclusive Photos

https://www.pakwheels.com/blog/honri-ve-unveiled-exclusive-photos/

[ifadey]

What is the benefit of CKD if they are selling at same price as CBU. Its competition Gigi EV and Volt EV are CBUs and priced same as this Honri EV. Looks like dewan motors is trying to earn big profits here.

[AkbarGr8]

Any news on CKD version of Rinco Aria? I.e Volt EV.

[ifadey]

DFSK have plan to assemble it in Pakistan but they have not given any timeline. Right now they are selling CBU for 42 lacs

[darthvader]

Can someone bring a proper EV compact sedan/hatchback rather than these chingchis masquerading as cars?

[pwuser15015763578]

This is more than an yr old model from China, source:
https://carnewschina.com/2023/02/27/weiao-boma-ev-launched-in-china-price-starts-at-5700-usd/
Battery is only 12kwh and i'll be surprised if it does more than 130km with AC in our hot climate. Considering it costs just USD5k in China and Duty/tax on CKD EV kits is v.low in Pak - Dewan asking for more than USD14k for it is pure extortion. Oh and it has no Airbags.

[ifadey]

12 kWh is the battery of base model which has 130 km of range. The one dewan launched has 18.5 kWh battery with 200 km of range. There's 300 km range model as well which I heard dewan will launch later.
I was of the same view as yours that the vehicle is price higher in Pakistan but after checking the price in Thailand, it's slightly high. Not that much.

Price of 200 km range model in Thailand is
500,000 baht ~ PKR 3,772,966

As far as my knowledge is, car prices in Thailand are usually less than Pakistan.

Details for the Thai model

Bangkok 2024: Honri Boma EV launched - up to 200 km EV range; mini Alphard from RM65k in Thailand - paultan.org

[Abd008]

A very improper (Alto AGS) is selling on 3 million here so EV which is prices around 3~3.5 million is what we need, what ordinary people will do with a proper 30 million status symbol vehicle. for me close to Alto price EV will be a hot selling second car in Pakistan (city drive, second car, school drops etc uses)

[ifadey]

A very improper (Alto AGS) is selling on 3 million here so EV which is prices around 3~3.5 million is what we need, what ordinary people will do with a proper 30 million status symbol vehicle. for me close to Alto price EV will be a hot selling second car in Pakistan (city drive, second car, school drops etc uses)

+1 for this