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Diesel, EV, or stick with petrol?
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Soldato
Feel free to regale us all with your personal experiences of the hassle of having to find and wait for a working charge point?
No, didn't think so, because you're only capable of parroting the fake nonsense you've been told to believe by anti-EV media
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Soldato
Has the higher price of tyres/brakes etc been factored into your plans? 
EV's have the opposite problem with brakes, the seldom use them and tyre wear increases with weight which is not just limited to EV. Car weights has increased over time regardless of propulsion method especially given the propensity towards the SUVHas the higher price of tyres/brakes etc been factored into your plans?
Soldato
Another point in favour of an EV - I took great pleasure in watching my **** neighbour outside in -3c this morning scraping ice off his car while mine was sat there quietly humming away defrosting itself 
Quite, extra wear on brakes is nonsense, especially if the car has one-pedal drive. Most days the only time I have to use the brake pedal in my Niro is to change "gear" (or if someone does something stupid in front of me).
Extra tyre wear is a legitimate point though, it's not just about weight, the ridiculous instant torque of most EVs does not lend itself to traction. The slightest bit of damp on the road and it actually takes quite a bit of effort to not wheelspin when pulling away
Quite, extra wear on brakes is nonsense, especially if the car has one-pedal drive. Most days the only time I have to use the brake pedal in my Niro is to change "gear" (or if someone does something stupid in front of me).
Extra tyre wear is a legitimate point though, it's not just about weight, the ridiculous instant torque of most EVs does not lend itself to traction. The slightest bit of damp on the road and it actually takes quite a bit of effort to not wheelspin when pulling away
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Soldato
Nah they have a special coating as they are EV, a few brake events are calibrated in much like brake drying and they will use friction brakes more when full battery naturally.
Why are sealed and greased caliper parts getting rusty enough to seize? Nasher could make stuff up, that is worse. I think your common sense has rusted up through lack of use too.
Why are sealed and greased caliper parts getting rusty enough to seize? Nasher could make stuff up, that is worse. I think your common sense has rusted up through lack of use too.
Another point in favour of an EV - I took great pleasure in watching my **** neighbour outside in -3c this morning scraping ice off his car while mine was sat there quietly humming away defrosting itself
Plenty of non EV do this, it is not EV specific, Volvos use a little fuel power heater in the wheelarch to precondition the cars for years, all about the car you buy but yes nice to go out to the car and not have to scrape it.
Special coating, lol. Any coating will vanish from the disks the second you use them.
Brakes seize up if they aren't used, they all do. In fact most moving parts do when outside.
I guess the tyres also have a special EV only coating? Let's not forget the magic EV only none-wearing out springs, bushes and bearing too
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They all come with a coating, it still weathers though.
You still use the brakes in an EV… you just don’t use them anywhere near as much…. Literally the only difference is the disks and pads last longer. They still need to be maintained in the same way as brakes on an ICE car do.
There are plenty on EVs out there on 150-300k miles which still have their original disks and pads, they still have functioning brakes…
You seem to be ideologically driven to get a ‘one up’ on EVs and win a ‘yeh but’ and it’s just embarrassing.
Unless you own a car with stupidly expensive brakes, even in an ICE car, they barely even feature in the total cost of ownership bill. I don’t even know why it’s even a discussion, it’s just bizarre.
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Soldato
Special coating, lol. Any coating will vanish from the disks the second you use them.
Brakes seize up if they aren't used, they all do. In fact most moving parts do when outside.
I guess the tyres also have a special EV only coating? Let's not forget the magic EV only none-wearing out springs, bushes and bearing too
Special coating for the non swept areas, which includes caliper pistons and carrier guides and a higher to resistance oxidation material selection for the actual disks. Feel free to join me on a call on Monday if you want to talk to a brake supplier and educate them?
It the way you calibrate out less of the forward moving disk 'clean sweep' events that exist to waste energy and just hurt range. Better material choice. Its just engineering pal.
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Which is the same as any other good quality brakes. Nothing stops the British weather and salty water in the end.
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My cupra is on 13k miles now and rear tyres need replacing soon. I don’t really drive it hard so can only assume it’s the weight, Regen and power delivery. A lot of the miles are commuting but probably 30% is motorway. Contiseal tyres.
My m3 does about 25-30k on the rear in comparison.
My m3 does about 25-30k on the rear in comparison.
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Soldato
I’m not sure, it’s not quite as salty as your posting style. Everyone would love to see a brake applied to that.
Soldato
Quite. Which is exactly the same as an ICE (except in an ICE you also have the additional wear from using them more frequently).#
What actually is the point you think you are trying to make?
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Isn't it the usual, trying to prove they know nothing about anything and cement that view for all to read?
Soldato
Looks like the brakes works @Nasher …