New models have a range comparable to a gas car, 350 to 400 miles. Yeah, takes 30 seconds to plug in twice a week. Still faster than stopping at a gas station.
Rather than dwell on the negatives, educate yourself and you will find many have been overcome or will be soon.
If I had need for two cars, one would be an EV today. Even now, it is good for 90% of my needs.
Not when your car isn't garaged or carported and that time is just plugging, not unplugging.
I'm not doing that, I am pointing out why an electric car is no use to me and isn't likely to ever be.
Been there, done that.
None have.
If they ever are, time to consider an electric car then, and whether they do better in any area than an ic car because if they don't, no point in having one.
I wouldn't, because the only advantage they have is the cost of refuelling and that isn't paid for by the much higher price of the car, particularly if you don't buy new, as so many don't.
It has no advantage at all for any of mine, only real downsides.
I have such a mechanism, except it doesn't have the pointer or scale fitted. In fact I have several.
They are Texas Instruments chart recorders with moving coil mechanisms to deflect the pen across the chart. Later chart recorders use servomotors with potentiometers for positional feedback and small motors, but these ones just have an enormous moving coil mechanism and no feedback.
There is an Alnico (or similar) horseshoe magnet about 5 inches in each dimension, with curved pole pieces attached, and coil about an inch and a half across, several inches long, in precision bearings, IIRC with a stationary cylindrical iron piece inside the coil to increase and shape the magnetic flux.
I have no idea what use they could be but can't bring myself to throw them out. I guess they might be usable as laser galvos, though the coils are not optimised for low moment of inertia so I think they would not be great for that.
Unfortunately unshielded magnets weighing more than several house bricks are not the kind of things that are easily sent in a parcel, and I live in Australia, otherwise I would try to sell you one, or give it to you if you asked nicely enough.
Oh they're beautiful, but even older and better made than what I was remembering (hence those have a lot of antique value, £92+ is a bit much!), which was metal/plastic and cream coloured, sorta like the top part of these post office scales but painted cream, with just a voltage scale across it.
All have centered needles for a +/- indicating instrument. All scales are NOT so. The 2nd is a really bad 'restoration' job with a non-fitting scale, not even aligned with the rotation center. The 3rd and 4th are also with a bad replaced scale, but at least centered.
wait 5 years ... if they haven't got much better - same battery material, same range, charging times not much different than now - then quietly forget the whole idea...
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