EV general discussion
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The congestion charge zone is about reducing congestion in a tiny area in central London. Last time I checked EVs still cause congestion.
If you don’t live in that zone or are a taxi, you’ve got very little reason to ever drive there.
The amount of pushback I’ve seen on the congestion zone changes are frankly bizarre. It was never going to be a permanent ’perk’.
Why do you think this makes the mayor of London a very bad man when you neither:
A) own an EV
B) don’t live in central London
If you don’t live in that zone or are a taxi, you’ve got very little reason to ever drive there.
The amount of pushback I’ve seen on the congestion zone changes are frankly bizarre. It was never going to be a permanent ’perk’.
Why do you think this makes the mayor of London a very bad man when you neither:
A) own an EV
B) don’t live in central London
So you bought a car with no motor, and no chance of ever being able to precondition, you come out with some cracking ones. The hilarity never stops.
EDIT: I mean you have an alternator, so that is a motor... hmmm what the BHP on that thing and efficiency for driving your car?
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sign of things to come - you've experienced the traffic in Cambridge
... it's a trump troppe (e: mayor of london) which yayyuuh wouldn't have got.
on a roll..
id3/born last generation 58K meb's were well in budget but both charging speed and accompanying preconditioning wouldn't have made periodic 300miles
round trips with family much fun.
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You don't have to fill it back to 80-90% - just enough to get back home. so 10-15 minutes on a charger to get back is reasonable.
You continually create conditions that when fulfilled you still fail to buy an EV
Utter fantasist
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You are over thinking it.
Every day goes past and you haven’t had the EV. DC Charging is a very very small part of the ownership experience.
I can’t imagine any sort of family trip with you is fun, I would assume you would prefer slower charging anyway. More time to watch YouTube.
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No one got it because it was neither relevant or funny.
Last time I checked the mayor of London didn’t have responsibility for congestion or roads policy in Cambridge.
Cambridgeshire country council who have the legal power to introduce such a scheme is run by the Lib Dem’s not Labour.
Likewise the Metro mayor who holds the purse strings for major transport infrastructure is a conservative who strongly opposes such a scheme.
Not only that EVs don’t cause less congestion than ICE cars. If your bothered about traffic, get a motorbike or the bus.
Anyway, that’s enough nonsense local politics start a separate thread if you want to talk about the lack of congestion charging in Cambridge.
Any anyone rode a Maeving RM1S?
Seems like the perfect Vehicle for jpaul to get around the contested streets of Cambridge. It even has removable batteries that he can recharge from a normal socket and doesn’t need to worry about his garage power supply.
Maeving RM1S | Electric Motorcycle | Explore
Discover the next level in the lightweight urban electric motorcycle category. Designed for mixed city riding, the RM1S electric motorcycle has a top speed of 70 mph with a range of up to 80 miles. Charge anywhere with removable batteries that plug into any standard socket or charge onboard for...
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Yup, absolutely love it, especially as I sit in stop start traffic for half an hour a day.
Please don’t encourage that, bikers cafe in the motors section is fairly devoid of lunatics, and it’d be nice to keep it that way.
I know plenty do but I can’t give and specific recommendations as I’m also iOS.
All I will say is that some of these apps require you to give pretty broad API access to your car for them to work. As they are 3rd party, you are effectively handing over the keys to your car.
Should there be a breach of that app, the attacker in theory could obtain the location of your car, the ability to unlock and remote start it.
The risk is probably very low but buyer beware and all that.
Ah yes, a 300 mile ~5-6 hour total driving time where plugging in the car while you stop for a toilet or drink break is too much hassle, and takes the fun away.
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No one got it because it was neither relevant or funny.
Last time I checked the mayor of London didn’t have responsibility for congestion or roads policy in Cambridge.
Cambridgeshire country council who have the legal power to introduce such a scheme is run by the Lib Dem’s not Labour.
Likewise the Metro mayor who holds the purse strings for major transport infrastructure is a conservative who strongly opposes such a scheme.
Not only that EVs don’t cause less congestion than ICE cars. If your bothered about traffic, get a motorbike or the bus.
Anyway, that’s enough nonsense local politics start a separate thread if you want to talk about the lack of congestion charging in Cambridge.
Any anyone rode a Maeving RM1S?
Seems like the perfect Vehicle for jpaul to get around the contested streets of Cambridge. It even has removable batteries that he can recharge from a normal socket and doesn’t need to worry about his garage power supply.
Maeving RM1S | Electric Motorcycle | Explore
Discover the next level in the lightweight urban electric motorcycle category. Designed for mixed city riding, the RM1S electric motorcycle has a top speed of 70 mph with a range of up to 80 miles. Charge anywhere with removable batteries that plug into any standard socket or charge onboard for...
Is that the same one Imogen from everything Electric has bought? Apparently not homologated yet for euro so can’t actually ride it yet until they sport the paper work. Whoops. A colleague has a bike just not sure which model.
The risk might be low, but if someone finds an exploit and the crims deem the car worth it, that could spread faster than a software update and cars could vanish instantly. Just look at what happened with Kias over in the states when people discovered that they could steal the car with nothing more than a USB plug.
Not a chance I'd be willing to take tbh, the potential downside doesn't come close to outweighing the convenience.
No idea, can’t say I ever keep track.
My commute is around 15 miles a day, so I don’t do huge mileage.
I’d seen it on their channel but I didn’t know she had bought one.
I hadn't clocked she could ride? I thought Jack did the review, perhaps it was an older video or a different bike I am recalling.
A quick curiosity glance at the website suggests you only need a CBT and if you have an A1 license you can ride it on a motorway so I’d have thought it was all legit for U.K. roads.
Aye that thought did put me off... I suppose there's a 4 digit pass key on my car so even with the key unlikely they could drive off.
The security on tesla seems pretty good in that way
Any CCS equipped car with >50kwh battery is still fairly modern as far as EVs go, sure if you're talking about a 20/30/40kwh Leaf or Zoe then the issues you mention are valid, but nobody is spending anywhere close to £30k on one of those!
My Niro just turned 5, and there's certainly no "modern" EV in the same segment which is a significant improvement or makes it feel dated.