I think test drives are important. Some are vessels that get from a to b. Others have a bit more about them.
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Park them in and sit thereEugh, to my shame I've just had a shouting match with a Karen blocking the last charging bay at a busy services with her Juke, don't get me wrong she deserved it, but I shouldn't have taken the bait. I tried starting off politely reminding her that she was stopping people from getting home, but she immediately got ***** with me for "accosting" her about a parking space, and I stupidly responded in kind(I blame the 3 hours sleep thanks to the "lovely people" in the hotel room above ours stomping around till 4am, and the long drive for my lack of patience).
How would you guys usually deal with an ICE? As far as I can tell it's not something they can be fined for, do private parking companies tend to issue "invoices" for it? If so I'm surprised they don't have cameras covering the bays, they could make a fortune!
It's very nice place to be. No frills in the looks department but feels very solidly built. The drive is nice, I've got the max trim with DCC though so will be slightly different without but it's a nice smooth drive. Power delivery again is smooth but you'll not find it lacking.
Seems there were a lot of software niggles early on but I've found none in mine with it on the latest version.
Servicing mainly. Need to find out if the garages round me can do it. And depreciation and battery fatigue. We will still have a fiesta (we have 2 at the moment) I just want something slightly larger for a more comfortable drive when we do trips in the UK. It will be used as a computing car daily, about 50 miles a day, so range for that is not an issue. We can charge at home and have a smallish solar set up so 95% of the charging should be at home.
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Poo through their letterbox.Eugh, to my shame I've just had a shouting match with a Karen blocking the last charging bay at a busy services with her Juke, don't get me wrong she deserved it, but I shouldn't have taken the bait. I tried starting off politely reminding her that she was stopping people from getting home, but she immediately got ***** with me for "accosting" her about a parking space, and I stupidly responded in kind
How would you guys usually deal with an ICE? As far as I can tell it's not something they can be fined for, do private parking companies tend to issue "invoices" for it? If so I'm surprised they don't have cameras covering the bays, they could make a fortune!
In all serriousness the phrase 'it would be a real shame if someone who was waiting for a charger keyed every pannel on your car while you were not here' tends to get the message across.
There's not much to service on an EV, brake fluid (same as ICE car), pollen filter, aircon, and some models will need coolants done but it's nothing at all to be concerned about. You are buying used so depreciation should be largely done with and on a par with anything else you'd buy regardless of drive train, and battery fatigue (as you put it) is again nothing to worry about unless you are buying something that has one 200k+ miles, nearly cars all have 8 year battery warranty, so will last much longer than that.
If range isn't an issue then you have loads of choice, and don't even need to spend £15k, I would also not be using my solar to charge it, as if you are on a good export tariff, along side a good EV import tariff (Octopus Intelligent Go as one example ) you make more not using the solar to charge the car/
Are there any figures on how many EVs have had batteries replaced under warranty I wonder? I know the older Leafs (Leaves?) are not so great anymore (although now out of warranty anyway), but I was under the impression that newer EVs with better BMS/conditioning are a lot better, certainly my 4.5 year old e-Niro doesn't seem to have lost a noticeable capacity - I can still get a real world 240 motorway miles out of it in decent weather, which at the ~3.8mi/kWh the car is telling me gives just over 63kwh, or a little over 1% drop from the original 64kwh
Hah, yes, her window was open a crack, I should have mentioned it would be a shame to come back and find someone had poured a bottle of urine through it!
I was however trying to be reasonable at first, but Karen was having none of it...
Looks like BMW are pulling user API access for their cars - spotted on a the GivEnergy group.
Controlling charging via an electricity provider (e.g. Octopus) will still work but no more local control or general third party access.
Controlling charging via an electricity provider (e.g. Octopus) will still work but no more local control or general third party access.
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BMW to disable remote charging control API
Hi All So I had this message pop up from the BMW App yesterday: So it appears for my safety and security that using only "compatible" third party providers is better than talking directly to BMW's own servers via my locally hosted home automation system. Yay! JC
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Yes that was the same screenshot that was posted.
BMW to disable remote charging control API
Hi All So I had this message pop up from the BMW App yesterday: So it appears for my safety and security that using only "compatible" third party providers is better than talking directly to BMW's own servers via my locally hosted home automation system. Yay! JC
The first comment was along the lines of ‘to return as a new subscription feature soon’.
As EVs becomes more popular I think we'll see a lot of manufacturers clamping down on API access if they don't already, they don't want random users constantly polling for stats and charging status over and over and over for the sake of it - if they can cut usage to just 'approved' charging services periodically updating charge percentages, that's what they'll all be aiming for I expect.
Why do that when you can charge for it, it's the bmw way.
Well there is that but is it even worth the effort to build up a specific product for home assistant nerds?
The number of people using the API outside of something like Octopus Intelligent Go must be absolutely tiny and you have to think there is a high proportion of early adopters are in said population.
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I'm assuming no other spaces in the whole of the services? Normally charging bays are well away from the entrance, which makes perfect sense when you think about it, so it's not likely to be a convenience thing.Eugh, to my shame I've just had a shouting match with a Karen blocking the last charging bay at a busy services with her Juke, don't get me wrong she deserved it, but I shouldn't have taken the bait. I tried starting off politely reminding her that she was stopping people from getting home, but she immediately got ***** with me for "accosting" her about a parking space, and I stupidly responded in kind
How would you guys usually deal with an ICE? As far as I can tell it's not something they can be fined for, do private parking companies tend to issue "invoices" for it? If so I'm surprised they don't have cameras covering the bays, they could make a fortune!
It's not right and I wouldn't do it but it starts to fall under the "Is it OK to park in one of half a dozen empty disabled spaces when there are no others in the car park?" territory.
If there were other options then obviously it's totally inexcusable.
It's a shame that charging cables aren't longer, you could have parked millimetres off her bumper, plugged in and then when she started kicking up a fuss said...
"Oh, I'm sorry. Well, you've probably read all about EVs in the Daily Mail so you'll know that this thing is going to take 8 hours to charge... if it even charges at all... assuming it doesn't catch on fire. So, settle in cos I'm off for a coffee."
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Final resolution email from VW about my ID.7 written by AI:
Can’t even take the time/make the effort to write a personalised email.
Please think twice about getting a VW
Can’t even take the time/make the effort to write a personalised email.
Please think twice about getting a VW
Disgraceful!Final resolution email from VW about my ID.7 written by AI:
Can’t even take the time/make the effort to write a personalised email.
Please think twice about getting a VW
"Yes, there is something else you could assist with. REPAIR THE DAMN CAR LIKE YOU SAID YOU HAVE DONE ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS"
EDIT - For reference I look after the customer support for a relatively small company but with a global client base. Now it isn't always possible to get everything right all of the time and we have dropped some real clangers in the past but its always surprising just how damaged a relationship can be, yet still be salvageable even to the point of that customer still coming back to you in future. Spitting out generic responses once a complaint gets escalated to that level isn't how you go about doing that!
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The charging bays are closest to one of the shops/restaurants (it's Welshpool for anyone interested)
According to her no other spaces (although I wouldn't rate her observation skills much, since she reckoned none of the EVs were charging anyway (despite the cables sticking out of them...)
But when all but one of the disabled spaces have cars with blue badges already parked...? If all the charging bays were empty then it wouldn't be so bad (although she still shouldn't)
She could have parked in front of one of the petrol pumps!
