Recommendation for daily 155kk comutor.

Any ev would suit your spec tbh so a matter of preference - seal is a nice ride If economy is a factor the only real benefit of performance vs premium is its launch speed which would be very uneconomic to utilise!

I got a seal premium. I'm doing 210km commute including 40km at 110 and lots of hills. I use approx 40% battery per day. With the included slow charger I get 20% back between days. If I go in every day I need to stop at a fast charger on day 4. Day 1 - 100% to 60% Day 2 - 80% to 40% Day 3 - 60% to 20% Day 4 - 40% start with 20 minutes at 150kW fast charger (brings to approx 70%) to 30% Day 5 - 50% to 10% Day 6 and 7 - Recharge to 100% Your commune is shorter and less energy intensive so you will be fine. If you get a 7kW charger (max AC rate, don't bother with 3 phase) it'll be a breeze.

Seal premium has better range, but the performance is a lot more fun. You'll be able to go 2 days between charges, maybe 3 with premium but only if you're minmaxing your drive. If you are happy to pay for the right setup 3 phase will get you 11kw charging which will be around 50km of range per hour or 9hours from 10% Edit - so right now you're paying 12-16 cents per km in petrol. (620km divided by 75-100) With a seal it would be just under 5 cents per km buying electricity at home, or 8-15 cents per km if you're only using commercial fast chargers. Source: I get about 400km of actual range from my SL7 perf driving 80-100 (50/50) of the time on a 70km commute. Seal is lighter and has less wind drag, but the same battery so will get better figures. Assuming range will drop by 10% within 5 years.

I think I will have drive of a couple on the weekend. Thanks for the honest feedback on range.

All excellent advice, except the last comment about 3 phase. If your house has 3 phase, you should absolutely bother installing a 3 phase EVSE over a single phase one. The cost difference is negligible and whilst your current car may not be able to use the additional phases, your next car might (plus visitors…etc).

I would check out the sealion 7 - nice car and would handle at least 3 days of travel before you needed to plugin for a recharge.

Less range than a Seal, but SL7 supports 11kW 3ph charging

Yeah solid pick up, if you're buying it for life get a 3 phase 22kW charger.

155km per day - you could make do with an atto 2 but that does mean you need to charge the battery daily. Otherwise like others said a seal (base, not the AWD performance) is prolly a better fit you can definitely get 2 days worth of kms from a single charge and still have some left.

Ok. So firstly, your car won’t be there during the day when the solar is generating power. Secondly, it sounds like you are going to use a battery to charge a battery. That’s not clever at all. This is because the average house battery is somewhere between 10-13 kWh and the average electric car battery is 60-70 kWh. This means there will be no point in having the battery. The solar and house battery setup should be designed to run the house overnight assuming it gets to fully charged during the day. My 12.8 kWh battery certainly does (haven’t had a power bill in the 4 years since it was installed). The only way to make this scenario work is to have the car charging from the solar panels during the day. If you charge at night, you are going to have the worst of both worlds.

I may be misunderstanding the tech but the Seal tops out at 6kw on AC charging so it would be superfluous to get 3 phase // 22kw

For the seal yes, but a charger is infrastructure. If their next car is also an EV (likely), and supports faster changing (likely) then they'd be left with something that needs upgrading for the car to charge at its maximum potential. Don't want to have to buy another charger down the road because car only charges at a certain level.

Sorry. Should have been more clear. I will get about 5 hrs a day on solar to charge. I understand the house battery won't charge the car. I will have to set up a separate curcuit that is not battery fed when we move. Thanks

Move closer to work I reckon.

That would mean living in Singleton or Muswellbrook. Fuck that, I would rather quit.