EV general discussion

[tom_e]

I am getting creepy stalker vibes off of this comment.

Leaf performance is pretty impressive though for a £3000 over 14 year old car. Beats most ICE cars off the line.

Was it you that originally made it?

Just made me chuckle and stuck in my mind.

 

[Diddums]

Yeah but you're not taking a family of four with luggage and stuff to Snowdonia in an M2.

You lot are comparing apples with pears here, those two cars couldn't be more different.

 

[lovelyhead]

Was it you that originally made it?

Just made me chuckle and stuck in my mind.

Yeah you know it was me. You are either going through my comments from ages ago or I'm living rent free in your head.

Although the way your are phrasing whatever I said is definitely not actually what I said.

 

[tom_e]

I had literally zero idea it was you, take it as the humorous remark it was meant as.

 

[Rilot]

It's funny when the practical family car is faster than the track focused sports cars!

It isn't though. It is in the 0-60 drag, just like most other EVs are. You showed it going round the ring in a - your words - "respectable time in line with other hot hatches" which doesn't equal faster than a track-focussed car at all. It means it's perfectly respectable for a hot hatch.
The thing about EVs is that because of the insane acceleration, they can get away with either a poor driver who can only do point-n-squirt, or much lower cornering speeds because they can make up the time when powering out of the corners.

I was having an argument with someone on the TeslaUK subreddit a couple of days ago when I said I didn't think I needed the ModelY Performance because "if I want to go fast, I'll drive my Mustang". Cue people jumping to point out that my Mustang is slow and that the ModelY will be much faster, that the 0-60 is so much quicker, etc. etc. It's almost as if people don't understand that there's more to going fast than just "floor it and go". Who'd have thought?

 

[lovelyhead]

Yeah but you're not taking a family of four with luggage and stuff to Snowdonia in an M2.

You lot are comparing apples with pears here, those two cars couldn't be more different.

No one is saying people who are in the market for a BMW M2 are also looking at an Xpower. It was just a demonstration of the Xpower's raw acceleration.

 

[Kenai]

Yeah but you're not taking a family of four with luggage and stuff to Snowdonia in an M2.

You lot are comparing apples with pears here, those two cars couldn't be more different.

Doesn't matter, all that's important is making sure lovelyhead understands that his car is ****, all the cars like his car are ****, nobody would buy a car like his because it's **** and any indication to the contrary is definitely nonsense because it couldn't possibly not be a **** car.

 

[Robbo]

Yeah but you're not taking a family of four with luggage and stuff to Snowdonia in an M2.

You lot are comparing apples with pears here, those two cars couldn't be more different.

I agree, EV's being fast off the line is nothing new or even that interesting any more. Not that I'm against it, of course!

 

[lovelyhead]

I had literally zero idea it was you, take it as the humorous remark it was meant as.

Hmmmmm. Strokes chin.

 

[lovelyhead]

It isn't though. It is in the 0-60 drag,

You could have stopped there because that is the only thing that video was demonstrating.

 

[Rilot]

You could have stopped there because that is the only thing that video was demonstrating.

But seriously, who cares about that? It's as meaningless as top speed.

 

[lovelyhead]

I agree, EV's being fast off the line is nothing new or even that interesting any more. Not that I'm against it, of course!

But the Xpower is fast around a technical race circuit too. Comparable to other hot hatches.

 

[lovelyhead]

But seriously, who cares about that? It's as meaningless as top speed.

It's really not. Flooring it down a motorway slip road is very fun. Being able to leave the lights way faster than pretty much any other car on the road is useful.

 

[Kenai]

But seriously, who cares about that? It's as meaningless as top speed.

Plenty of people care about that because plenty of people rarely extract more performance out of their performance cars than when they boot it away from the traffic lights every now and then

 

[Robbo]

But the Xpower is fast around a technical race circuit too. Comparable to other hot hatches.

But if it's being compared to a Nissan GTR for example, it should be compared to one on track. An M2 isn't a hot hatch either! Anyway, I do get your point.

 

[Armageus]

Flooring it down a motorway slip road is very fun.

Your definition of fun is very different to mine

Being able to leave the lights way faster than pretty much any other car on the road is useful.

Useful how?

 

[ChrisD.]

I often stop completely dead on a slip road to do a 0-60.

 

[Kenai]

I often stop completely dead on a slip road to do a 0-60.

Obviously not true, we know you're doing at least 130 so you can get that 100-200kph dragy time for instagram

 

[Journey]

I often stop completely dead on a slip road to do a 0-60.

You joke, but at Easter we got stuck behind a guy the decided to pull over on the slip road to the M5 at Junction 6 Worcester, they caused about 4 or 5 cars behind us to have to wait for a decent gap, wished I'd had something faster then! It's really quite scary.

 

[ChrisD.]

You joke, but at Easter we got stuck behind a guy the decided to pull over on the slip road to the M5 at Junction 6 Worcester, they caused about 4 or 5 cars behind us to have to wait for a decent gap, wished I'd had something faster then! It's really quite scary.

TBH my car probably overboots to 500 bhp and being RWD I'd probably end up facing the wrong way, or in a bush.