When are you going fully electric?

[Tinders]

A comment on the VW capacitive buttons and controls, the v4 onwards software does make it pretty good now, its all backlit, ive not had an issue at all. the HVAC controls are in a fixed place on the screen aswell.

The capacitive buttons on the steering wheel are ok aswell. What is not OK, is the sodding 2 buttons for winding the windows down, specifically the touch bit for the rear windows. grr. VW have dropped the capacitive steering wheel buttons on the new Passat and Tiguan now.

 

[keyser van someone]

Sharing my experience owning a Kona 2021 EV since Jan, I lack a driveway so I only charge at local Tesla chargers (easier for data gathering as well). I usually charge to 80% but lately with the colder weather just over at 85% ish. With the recent 4 day cold snap this week resulted in me having 28% left on Thursday evening and I felt better going for a top charge so I didn't have to worry about not having enough to get back/visit charger at the weekend. Also the cabin preheating may not work when the battery is less than 20%, I can't remember.

During the summer electric weekly charging was around £9/10. Since elec price has increased by 10% and with colder weather it went to around £15 per week. This cold snap week cost a new record £25! but I'm preheating the car 10 mins before I get in and have the car warm I now charge to 90% if the forecast is below freezing which should hopefully mean I don't need a mid week top up charge.

But I'll take that plus cabin preheating is game changing. One morning I was either side of neighbours who were sat in their cars waiting for windows to demist - I got in my car and was off

Friday morning was slick with ice. This is where my all season tyres came in and grip has been great, I did see someone only just make it up a slight incline in their car.

Charging times are 45mins in the summer and 1h 10min if it's really cold outside and going to 90%. That is the one thing I would want to upgrade but any future EV will be faster than that. I question what Tesla drivers do at the charger since I thought it's super quick but they go there to sleep I think lol.