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Also love this story, was going to link it the other day but forgot.
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Will be interesting to see just how bad/good this kind of this will be given time. Imagine getting an older EV in a 5-10 years time and putting a much more energy dense pack in.
Some Geniuses Are Swapping 200-Mile Battery Packs Into BMW i3s, Creating A Potential 'Forever Car' - The Autopian
BMW sold over 250,000 i3s between 2013 and 2022, and with those cars having carbon fiber bodies and aluminum frames that don’t rust; plastic and carbon fiber panels that don’t dent; and interiors that hold up to abuse, there are naturally many i3s still on the road, looking good. The issue is...
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Will be interesting to see just how bad/good this kind of this will be given time. Imagine getting an older EV in a 5-10 years time and putting a much more energy dense pack in.
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End of my Jag era happened today, with the iPace being inspected and driven away by BCA. Sorry to see it go as its a great car but not so sorry in some ways.
The replacement Polestar 4 DMLR was delivered yesterday and i've not had much time to play with it but somethings are a big improvement on the Jag, somethings are remarkably similar. It drives well, is incredibly quiet, rides very well , bloody fast and has a decent range and I hope a significantly better DC charging curve...The rear view mirror being a screen is a little different but becoming accustomed to it already, few software niggles but nothing major, speaker system is not quite as good as the Meridian but not far off. Boot is big and a good height, interior space is huge, seats are comfy and have a lot of adjustment to them and whilst they aren't the nappa leather they are still very nice.
Overall I'm really pleased with it and talking to my wife last night we both said the same that it feels like what the next generation of iPace would have been if Jag had continued developing it.
How are you finding the width? I get mine on Thursday and that’s the only concern I have. Think it’s 16cm wider than my Model 3.
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They also forget about the £000’s in servicing costs to keep it on the road. Costs that are significantly lower with an EV.
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Have they fixed the issues with the Tesla's yet? I hear they have a problem swerving hard to the right ?
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No, they tried with the new model, but the Model SS was still firmly hard right.
no difference to the iPace to be honest, its a wide car, its tight in some parking spaces, but has enough cameras on it to see everything clearly. the drive is really good its significantly quicker than the iPace was, hopefully get some miles on it in the next few days
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enticing munro video about the engineering aero / noise improvements on Juniper, chinese/BYD need similar publicity.
Lars Moravy, Vice President - Vehicle Engineering and Franz Von Holzhausen, Senior Design Executive at Tesla about the upgrades to the Tesla Model Y
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[ saloon world 1.5m/1500kg, hadn't appreciated the r5 platform sharing alfa-junior velocee has a limited slip diff on front, one up on brake torque vectoring, spiritual successor of the old ST, ]
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I’m not enticed. The whoosh parrot is strong too.
Which “old ST” is that exactly?
Which “old ST” is that exactly?
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I'm hopefully going to soon ..... (!!) be in a position to start doing salary sacrifice again and that will almost certianly be taken up and I'll move my Golf on.
Really like the look of both the ID3 GTX and the Alpine 290 GTS - notably because there seem to be decent deals on both.
Interested if anyone has had a go in either.
Really like the look of both the ID3 GTX and the Alpine 290 GTS - notably because there seem to be decent deals on both.
Interested if anyone has had a go in either.
No issue with them swerving to the right - unlike other cars stability control doesn't come on by default, there is a button for it up by the sun visor.
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Can anyone advise as a Google search is confusing me
I have a Rav4 Plug in that works well with my Zappi charger and Octopus Intelligent Go.
We are considering changing my wife's ICE car for a full EV. However, I cant work out how the Zappi will charge both cars separately on IOG. You can only add one car. I thought plugging in either car would "Just work" But what I have read does not appear to support that idea.
Can anyone enlighten me please?
I have a Rav4 Plug in that works well with my Zappi charger and Octopus Intelligent Go.
We are considering changing my wife's ICE car for a full EV. However, I cant work out how the Zappi will charge both cars separately on IOG. You can only add one car. I thought plugging in either car would "Just work" But what I have read does not appear to support that idea.
Can anyone enlighten me please?
As part of my considering an EV in the not too distant future, I tried a VW ID7 Tourer for the day yesterday (Match Pro 77 Kw).
I knew it would be a good car from looking at the reviews, but I was still left quite impressed. The fit and finish seemed generally excellent, certainly on par with something like an i5, albeit perhaps a bit more plain looking.
The screen is very crisp and clear, although I was surprised at the fairly poor quality of the reversing camera. As a whole the infotainment system seemed generally fine, although I didn't explore it in great detail. Looking at the range, I think you'd quite easily get around the 300 miles mark on a charge, and the car seemed quite efficient.
The brakes aren't brilliantly responsive, although it's easier to control in 'B' drive mode. The augmented reality HUD was quite interesting, it seemed to work pretty well and the self-driving tech seemed accurate compared to other ones I've tried. It's something I use quite frequently on my current 7 Series.
Not the most exciting car handling-wise, but then it's not supposed to be! Performance is just 'decent' for an EV, but more than ample in most situations. There is loads of space inside the car, so you're pretty well covered from a practicality perspective.
Would I buy one? I'm not sure, I think the i5 is a bit more my sort of car, but of course they are more expensive and likely lower spec (short of paying a fortune for options).
In the context of the recent cheap ID7 lease deals, I'd say the car is a bargain! I think I've ruled out Tesla for <insert your own variety of reasons here> although I liked the Model 3.
I knew it would be a good car from looking at the reviews, but I was still left quite impressed. The fit and finish seemed generally excellent, certainly on par with something like an i5, albeit perhaps a bit more plain looking.
The screen is very crisp and clear, although I was surprised at the fairly poor quality of the reversing camera. As a whole the infotainment system seemed generally fine, although I didn't explore it in great detail. Looking at the range, I think you'd quite easily get around the 300 miles mark on a charge, and the car seemed quite efficient.
The brakes aren't brilliantly responsive, although it's easier to control in 'B' drive mode. The augmented reality HUD was quite interesting, it seemed to work pretty well and the self-driving tech seemed accurate compared to other ones I've tried. It's something I use quite frequently on my current 7 Series.
Not the most exciting car handling-wise, but then it's not supposed to be! Performance is just 'decent' for an EV, but more than ample in most situations. There is loads of space inside the car, so you're pretty well covered from a practicality perspective.
Would I buy one? I'm not sure, I think the i5 is a bit more my sort of car, but of course they are more expensive and likely lower spec (short of paying a fortune for options).
In the context of the recent cheap ID7 lease deals, I'd say the car is a bargain! I think I've ruled out Tesla for <insert your own variety of reasons here> although I liked the Model 3.
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Can anyone advise as a Google search is confusing me
I have a Rav4 Plug in that works well with my Zappi charger and Octopus Intelligent Go.
We are considering changing my wife's ICE car for a full EV. However, I cant work out how the Zappi will charge both cars separately on IOG. You can only add one car. I thought plugging in either car would "Just work" But what I have read does not appear to support that idea.
Can anyone enlighten me please?
I’ve got my IPACE set with Ohme to add 45% on a routine when I plug it in. I also now have an Evoque PHEV and I simply plug that in and the Ohme plans to fill an ipace 45% so it’s charges the Evoque just fills it up in about 1/3rd of the time as it will only take 15kWh max.
No issues at all, they have recently added a second car option but when you change vehicles it doesn’t change the routines so it’s pretty pointless in my view.
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Can anyone advise as a Google search is confusing me
I have a Rav4 Plug in that works well with my Zappi charger and Octopus Intelligent Go.
We are considering changing my wife's ICE car for a full EV. However, I cant work out how the Zappi will charge both cars separately on IOG. You can only add one car. I thought plugging in either car would "Just work" But what I have read does not appear to support that idea.
Can anyone enlighten me please?
It does just work but you need to set up IOG with car with the largest battery to make sure you always end up with a fully charged charged car.
Say you have two cars, one with a 80kwh battery and one with a 40kwh battery, you set up IOG with the car with the 80kwh battery so when you put in the octopus app to 'add 50%, it will add 40kwh. If you plug in the 40kwh car, adding 50% will fully charge the car from empty.
EDIT: per @Jonnycoupe's real world example above
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Had my first range anxiety today and it wasn't a good feeling.
I was doing an 160 mile round trip to meet a fellow OCUK'er to buy something and had 240 miles on the clock.
I couldn't go the way I wanted which was really straightforward because a section of the M1 was closed so I quickly found an alternative route,
On the way back I had put a stop for a service station (Leicester East) because me and the wife would bound to want a wee.
I ended up going to the stop point first because my route was the wrong way round which put me 30 miles away from my target so I had to ring him up and say I'd be another 25 minutes which he said was OK.
However this now meant it had turned into a 220 mile journey so we stopped at the same services to fill up but non of the chargers were working
I took a chance but remembered something somebody said which was to slow down to 60 and cruise and by the time I got home I'd got 40 miles left.
Anyway, lessons learned
I was doing an 160 mile round trip to meet a fellow OCUK'er to buy something and had 240 miles on the clock.
I couldn't go the way I wanted which was really straightforward because a section of the M1 was closed so I quickly found an alternative route,
On the way back I had put a stop for a service station (Leicester East) because me and the wife would bound to want a wee.
I ended up going to the stop point first because my route was the wrong way round which put me 30 miles away from my target so I had to ring him up and say I'd be another 25 minutes which he said was OK.
However this now meant it had turned into a 220 mile journey so we stopped at the same services to fill up but non of the chargers were working
I took a chance but remembered something somebody said which was to slow down to 60 and cruise and by the time I got home I'd got 40 miles left.
Anyway, lessons learned
Yes, that was likely me. 60 vs 70 is nothing in time savings really.
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Yes thanks for that, when I slowly saw my miles getting better it put me at ease.
So for example from the services I'd got 60 miles to go with 80 on the clock and by the time I got home going slower I'd got 40 remaining.
It's bloody hard to go slow in that car but thank whatever God for cruise control.