EV general discussion

jpaul said:
wheel gate ,so the AI was not mentioning the significance of DCC for permitting you to have bigger wheels, without breaking them or you back,
maybe johhny knows if they reduce the shock of the initial impact of a pot-hole, or just the exiting of the pot-hole or the rear wheel hit ?
so cupra or taviscans with that option are attractive, for me

Similar to lighter ICE cars where the only BMW M suspension offering I considered, were those with adaptive for the local pot-holes (think of the pot-holeschildren),
before eventually going to the dark-side/Audi.

rolls royce (00 too ?) solution to avoid wheel breaking would be the chinese assisitive driving that is remembering where the pot-holes are
- some genuine value there, versus a tesla/other blindly following the white line through every pot-hole.
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ACC isnt magical like that with, its just valve control of the damper. I have EDC on my E92 M3 (rebound only) and DCC on my cupra born, both you can feel immediate change when pressing the wheel buttons.

I have individual mode on the born with ACC on softest setting for speed humps as it allows more wheel travel, then cupra mode is the stiffest you want to go, as expected the damper is stiffer as ACC is compression and rebound so the car feels like a stiffer damper under low frequency bumps, but on broken roads it doesn't really make a significant difference. For a 2ton car on 40 profile it seems to cope with bumpers very well in any setting and never crashy.
 
Spring and tyres is your main energy systems on a wheel corner. Adaptive dampers more for the finer secondary control. Cant fight physics with tech, especially if you stick to an OEM marketing name.
 
Well that's flown by. Nearly 5 years with an i3. Here it is having new boots recently.
Been a pleasure to own but hasn't been without a few problems, mostly covered under the warranty except the cabin heater that went 50/50 on the replacement. The car was out of warranty but managed to get BMW to contribute given it was and still is a very low milage example. Currently just over 9500 miles covered, mostly in my ownership.
Issues covered under the manufacturers warranty was the AUC sensor and the driver's seat base needing replacing as it was creaking and had play.
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Simon said:
I've had Co Charger for 4 months now, got first message today for someone to charge at my house on Saturday. Anyone using it? Straight forward I assume as the payment goes into your bank.
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Have a booking tomorrow so will see how it goes. Sharing is caring right ?
 
Had my iPace for about 2.5years now, lost a chunk on depreciation and the amount I can get for it now just makes it not worth selling.
hard to believe you can get a £70K 5-yr car that does 0-60 faster than most sports cars for around £10k now..
 
ProStreet said:
Had my iPace for about 2.5years now, lost a chunk on depreciation and the amount I can get for it now just makes it not worth selling.
hard to believe you can get a £70K 5-yr car that does 0-60 faster than most sports cars for around £10k now..
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You sound like you've done the same as me. Got mine 2 years ago and thought the depreciation had stabled, but nope! There was still some left lol.

My plan is to keep it until it breaks or I can't repair it myself and the cost is too expensive.

I could have got a Skoda Superb / Octavia VRS for about 21k but got the I-Pace for not much more as the cost vs new was too hard to pass up!
 
My IPACE goes back Wednesday. Sad day after over 5 years and 3 different cars, best car I’ve had as it does everything well.
Hopefully back in an EV towards the end of the year.
 
tres said:
Second EV added to the household, a 22 plate Model 3.
Nice car, very different drive to the Ioniq 5.
As long as they both last 3 years, then anything over will be saving us money compared to our previous habit of leasing.
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Nice - Tons of M3/MY's around on the second hand market at the moment after all these 3 year lease deals end/get returned.

Local Arnold Clark has 2 model Y's for £24k - 3 years old with both less than 24k on the clock...
 
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Jonnycoupe said:
My IPACE goes back Wednesday. Sad day after over 5 years and 3 different cars, best car I’ve had as it does everything well.
Hopefully back in an EV towards the end of the year.
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Best car for me as well, but my list at just above 40 is:

Fiat Punto - 2 years
Fiat Seicento - 2 years
Vauxhall Vectra - 16 years
:D
I-Pace - 2 years

I'm hoping the I-Pace will match the Veccy and then some. Only reason I got rid was because the arches and boot had holes in! With this being mostly aluminium, I'm hoping it will see me to retirement if the battery doesn't go first!

It drives amazingly and there's nearly no body roll at all for such a big car, it's definitely like driving a sporty car.
 
booyaka said:
Nice - Tons of M3/MY's around on the second hand market at the moment after all these 3 year lease deals end/get returned.

Local Arnold Clark has 2 model Y's for £24k - 3 years old with both less than 24k on the clock...
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We got our 2022 Model 3, 25k miles, for £19k
Madness what you can get when someone else has paid for the main depreciation!
 
bigmike20vt said:
will you be likely to be offered one of the new models of Jag when they come out?
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Unlikely!

chanjy said:
Think it’s the RRE he’s thinking of
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Nah that’s my current other car Range Rover Evoque PHEV. That’s had its reorder though so Range Sport PHEV should cover the commute in EV just about.

We’ll see what comes in 2026
 
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Jonnycoupe said:
Unlikely!


Nah that’s my current other car Range Rover Evoque PHEV. That’s had its reorder though so Ranger Sport PHEV should cover the commute just about.

We’ll see what comes in 2026
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Oh sorry typing on my phone I meant Range Rover electric haha

Must be out by end of this year surely…
 
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