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jpaul said:
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paradigm said:
Saloon proportions? It’s a jacked up hatchback like the id3.
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but everything, excepting high end taycan, is more than a legacy saloon of 1400 ... and doesn't the taycan have battery problems, but maybe unrelated to foot-well/xmission tunnel batteries ?
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interesting tear down of taycan - I hadn't appreciated they didn't put batteries in the transmission tunnel, like polestar, to achieve low saloon height,
also good description of the gearbox.
https://pontoon-e.com/an-extremely-...aycans-engineering-designed-to-take-on-tesla/




Q4 e-tron - ID4 versus enyaq - I'd read audi have an exemplary software division, possibly other differences between id4/enyaq that aren't cabin fitment differences
Skoda Enyaq iV Fails to Match the VW ID.4's Moose Test Performance
 
Went to look at a fully loaded Enyaq 80x yesterday, every option apart from the sunroof. It was nice inside and although maybe not quite as nice as my A7 certainly not rubbish.

Would love a Audi E-Tron GT but that's out of my range.

Its possible I could get rid of the wifes J11 Tekna+ Qashqai and get her a Enyaq, although convicting her to go electric is not working:rolleyes:
 
Just having a good experience with ionity at Collumpton Services, I couldn't get my VW Wecharge card to authorise, so phoned Ionity who were really helpful, mentioned I probably hadn't activated the card yet and remotely started a free charging session for me..

Mind you, once I've activated the Wecharge card, it's still 45p/kwh so I'm sure they'll recoup the money later!...

Still, nice to have a good friendly customer service rep who did what they could to help...

The charger is great maxed out at nearly 100kwh at the moment, fastest charge I've had yet.
 
jpaul said:
you drove it too ?

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following Tesla Q4 january earnings call
The LFP 4680 Battery Cell // + LFP with Tesla Silicon
video does not seem to discuss implications of different cold charging of LFP, which I thought was important for a full deployment decision , which is what I wanted to know about, otherwise quite a good summary.
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Unfortunately no. Had the wife and my little 2 year old with me. Hoping to go back just me and the wife at weekend and have a go in it.
 
Demon said:
Just having a good experience with ionity at Collumpton Services, I couldn't get my VW Wecharge card to authorise, so phoned Ionity who were really helpful, mentioned I probably hadn't activated the card yet and remotely started a free charging session for me..

Mind you, once I've activated the Wecharge card, it's still 45p/kwh so I'm sure they'll recoup the money later!...

Still, nice to have a good friendly customer service rep who did what they could to help...

The charger is great maxed out at nearly 100kwh at the moment, fastest charge I've had yet.
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Reading things like this it does worry me how far public charging needs to come. As EVs become the only viable option for people rather than a considered choice will Joe Public be happy with anything other than just rocking up to a vacant charger with their regular credit / debit card and the charger just working 100% of the time?
 
lordrobs said:
Reading things like this it does worry me how far public charging needs to come. As EVs become the only viable option for people rather than a considered choice will Joe Public be happy with anything other than just rocking up to a vacant charger with their regular credit / debit card and the charger just working 100% of the time?
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He chose to use the offer with his vehicle, if he'd wanted to be could have started the charge with a contactless card at the default rate/tariff.
 
lordrobs said:
Reading things like this it does worry me how far public charging needs to come. As EVs become the only viable option for people rather than a considered choice will Joe Public be happy with anything other than just rocking up to a vacant charger with their regular credit / debit card and the charger just working 100% of the time?
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To be fair you don’t need a WeCharge card to use Ionity, you can just use contactless.
 
Journey said:
He chose to use the offer with his vehicle, if he'd wanted to be could have started the charge with a contactless card at the default rate/tariff.
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Spleen Sauce said:
To be fair you don’t need a WeCharge card to use Ionity, you can just use contactless.
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Ah, fair enough. Although as no one is going to choose to pay more for the same charger the point still stands that there is an added layer of complexity to something that should be so simple.
 
lordrobs said:
Ah, fair enough. Although as no one is going to choose to pay more for the same charger the point still stands that there is an added layer of complexity to something that should be so simple.
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The added layer of complexity, as you put it, was the person not activating their charging card or account, the same thing would happen with a credit card you hadn't activated.
 
Jonnycoupe said:
Love the idea 45p public charging is expensive. :D
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Not really in the grand scheme of things considering cost of electricity.

At the weekend went upto Scarborough for weekend away and had to charge at an Ionity station, cost me £20 to fill up, in my old car would have been £75.

Ionity is defiantly the most expensive out there for public charging but still cheaper than petrol for me.
 
Nikumba said:
Not really in the grand scheme of things considering cost of electricity.

At the weekend went upto Scarborough for weekend away and had to charge at an Ionity station, cost me £20 to fill up, in my old car would have been £75.

Ionity is defiantly the most expensive out there for public charging but still cheaper than petrol for me.
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So £20 of electricity from an Ionity public charger gives the same range as £75 of petrol in your old car?

I assume that is at a discounted rate? I thought that in (very) rough terms full price Ionity charging worked out at about 17p/mile and I doubt your previous car was costing 65p/mile in fuel.
 
lordrobs said:
So £20 of electricity from an Ionity public charger gives the same range as £75 of petrol in your old car?
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He didnt say that though, he said it was £20 to fill up compared to £75 in petrol, which isnt the same thing as range
 
I got 260 miles of charge from the Ionity, this was just using contactless, my Focus ST for a full tank that gave me around 280 miles would now be around £75.
 
Bear said:
He didnt say that though, he said it was £20 to fill up compared to £75 in petrol, which isnt the same thing as range
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Exactly but if the range of the EV is 150 miles and the Petrol car range was 600 miles then that would actually be cheaper by comparison. Anyway, it's been clarified...

Nikumba said:
I got 260 miles of charge from the Ionity, this was just using contactless, my Focus ST for a full tank that gave me around 280 miles would now be around £75.
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So 9 miles per kWh if you were paying the standard non discounted rate. That's... er.... impressive.
 
yes - must be an error £20 @0.45kwhr => 44kwhr , giving 260miles => 6m/Kwhr
much better than impressive kona 4m/kwhr discussed a few pages back, which would have cost £30

smmt report on electric charging from last week were demanding all chargers should accept credit cards, in addition to public charger levelling up for north of country,
my parents defintely don't want hassle of apps
https://www.smmt.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/SMMT-EV-Infrastructure-Position-Paper-FINAL.pdf
 
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