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jpaul said:
the arrival of 800's may pull the charging stations back to a drive through strategy - quicker turnover, reduced prices?, the action is the juice.

CLA does have lower rear seatwell floor-pan in ICE variant so must have an interesting production line.
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The 800v charging cars have been here a while.

Back in 2024 the below were 800-volt EVs

Audi E-Tron GT
Chevrolet Silverado EV
Genesis GV60
Genesis Electrified G80
Genesis Electrified GV70
GMC Hummer EV Pickup
GMC Hummer EV SUV
GMC Sierra EV
Hyundai Ioniq 5
Hyundai Ioniq 6
Kia EV6
Kia EV9
Lotus Eletre
Lotus Emeya
Lucid Air
Lucid mavity
Porsche Macan Electric
Porsche Taycan
Ram 1500 REV
Tesla Cybertruck
 
Tinders said:
I’d definitely consider the estate when mines due for replacement in 2 years, hopefully they will have sorted the 800v ‘issue’ by then.
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Interesting aren't they, any electrified estate is interesting at the moment, bored to death of SUVs. Bought an SUV myself and the interior space is great but it's absolutely awful to drive, extremely dull, bores me to death. Cannot wait to get out of it, most expensive mistake I've ever made
 
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Journey said:
Review of the new CLA.

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Had a watch, it certainly looks like a very capable car. The EV bits look to be a good step up over others at this price point.

One thing I just couldn’t get past is how cramped that interior looked. Rory Reed is not a big chap, dare I say it, he is on the shorter side and he filled it. The centre console seems massive but also somewhat lacking in storage, the filler panel if you dont spec the passenger screen is a bit low rent but otherwise the interior looks nice enough. I guess that is the comprimise of it also being able to take an engine.
 
Penfold101 said:
This is the design philosophy I’m waiting for - all models are the same and you can choose between ICE, hybrid and BEV. the E Class estate is top of my list in a few years!
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the problem. with that is you just end up with an EV which has made compromises. I am not saying there are not good cars which are on dual platforms, but a built from ground up EV is likely to be a better EV
 
bigmike20vt said:
the problem. with that is you just end up with an EV which has made compromises. I am not saying there are not good cars which are on dual platforms, but a built from ground up EV is likely to be a better EV
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Possibly, but I’d like to think the engineers are clever enough to keep the compromises to a minimum. If they made an estate version of the current EQE I’d be all over it, but the egg shape they used for the aerodynamics bugs me a lot - I’d happily exchange some efficiency for the looks of the current E class!
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Had a watch, it certainly looks like a very capable car. The EV bits look to be a good step up over others at this price point.

One thing I just couldn’t get past is how cramped that interior looked. Rory Reed is not a big chap, dare I say it, he is on the shorter side and he filled it. The centre console seems massive but also somewhat lacking in storage, the filler panel if you dont spec the passenger screen is a bit low rent but otherwise the interior looks nice enough. I guess that is the comprimise of it also being able to take an engine.
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Thought the same. Tiny car inside.
 
Relentless81 said:
absolutely awful to drive, extremely dull, bores me to death. Cannot wait to get out of it, most expensive mistake I've ever made
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Sounds like you are describing my estate, which is also available as a full electric :p

Company car so not my coin but likely to be stuck with it for 5 or 6 years knowing our place. I may have to plan in a tactical crash if it gets too much :cry:
 
local waterboard make you keep company cars for 60K miles or 5 years now, from ev owning neighbour.

Doubled edged review of American tesla ownership experience :

maybe neu-klasse saloon will fix the rear interior ev space problem, compared to CLA, with their dual height battery packs.
 
Had my EV for 6 months now. It's been faultless. I've never had to charge away from home, even when the range was down to 180 in winter.

Driving to London in 2 weeks. Looking at charging at Watford Gap or Oval Services in Northampton.

Does anyone have experience with the typical wait times at M1 services on week days? I've got no idea whether to factor that in.
 
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I've been having fun tracking down a 2nd hand Tesla model 3 with a tow bar in my budget, there's a few around but they're hard to find as pretty much no dealer will list it in the description so it's a case of trawling through all the pictures.

I found one which wasn't too far away so contacted a dealer as i saw it in the pics but no mention of it anywhere, so asked if it was factory fit and shows up in the menus with trailer mode etc, got a response of "yeah i's got a tow bar mate"

Replied saying how if you want to town it needs to be factory fit etc to have the right VIN plate with a train weight along with the MAM etc and he comes back very defensive saying he's had over a decade in the motor trade and never heard of anything like that and there's "no such thing as vehicle train weights in England, that's an American thing"

So yeah not sure i really want to buy anything from him even if the car itself looks ok :( the search continues i guess
 
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As I mentioned in my BYD Seal thread I'm joining the EV party soon :D.

Going to have to pop my public charging cherry on the way home from picking it up due to being over 400 miles away. I've watched a few videos so I'm aware of the etiquette lol.
 
Can someone tell me if I'm stupid for considering an EV before I have a home charger installed. Quite tempted for an Elonwaggon as they're 0% at the moment. Don't think I'd be in position to get a charger for a few months so I'd be at the mercy of Superchargers but I have one ~5-10 minutes from my house.

I appreciate that the real savings are when you can charge at home for peanuts but I feel it's still cheaper than my car which gets 28.5mpg averaged after 20k miles.
 
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Junglist said:
Can someone tell me if I'm stupid for considering an EV before I have a home charger installed. Quite tempted for an Elonwaggon as they're 0% at the moment. Don't think I'd be in position to get a charger for a few months so I'd be at the mercy of Superchargers but I have one ~5-10 minutes from my house.

I appreciate that the real savings are when you can charge at home for peanuts but I feel it's still cheaper than my car which gets 28.5mpg averaged after 20k miles.
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I've not got a wall charger and still using a granny one and it keeps the ev's battery topped up. But we do little mileage, depends upon your daily use.
 
Sign up for the supercharger membership and it brings the price down again so while it still won't be as cheap as home charging it should still provide savings over your current car until you get one installed.
 
Junglist said:
I do about 160-170 miles a week. So I was thinking just a morning at a supercharger every other weekend would be fine
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You'll probably need to charge more than once every 2 weeks if you're averaging 170 miles a week, certainly to be comfortable. 340 miles range isn't impossible but it'll only take one thing to make you run short. A strong headwind, rain, traffic, if it gets hot or cold. Plus you'll need to charge to 100% every time which is really slow. Much better to just visit once a week and charge to 80% IMHO. Safer on range and probably faster overall.

That said, don't discredit a slow/granny AC charger. Since we got our EV 6 months ago we've averaged 230 miles a week just using a 2.2 kW charger. If you need to do 2 long journeys back to back it can be a little trouble, but it's nearly always just fine as long as you plan ahead.
 
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