EV general discussion

throwaway4372 said:
Charging times has always been the main problem. Can't get everyone without home charging into an ev unless they can fill up at the petrol station without massive queues.
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Indeed, queues gets silly right now with Petrol, Costco's is always around the car park and that is with quick fill ups of ICE, same queue will EVs would require hotel rooms :D
 
Azza said:
Finally had an email back from the payroll manager with a quote. It's neither the trim of car I requested nor at a price I can actually see on the website and he didn't include BIK costs.


Why are these things so hard?
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Actual progress.

Ordered an Ioniq 5 Ultimate with moonlight grey interior.


Though I'll believe it when I see it... in 2026 I bet. :cry:
 
Well Andersen have gone into administration, so if anyone has one of their chargers not sure where you'll be with regards to software updates etc.
 
Journey said:
Well Andersen have gone into administration, so if anyone has one of their chargers not sure where you'll be with regards to software updates etc.
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It’s worse than that, they’ll turn into dumb chargers if no one buys them out.

I wouldn’t have thought anyone would given the founders have already launched a competing product and there is t a huge market for these ultra high end wall boxes.

It’s not like they’ll have a huge amount of IP that you couldn’t just create yourself relatively quickly.
 
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That’s the death sentence then. If it’s not being treated as a going concern until a buyer is found, those chargers will be forever dumb.

Not a cheap product either.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
It’s worse than that, they’ll turn into dumb chargers if no one buys them out.

I wouldn’t have thought anyone would given the founders have already launched a competing product and there is t a huge market for these ultra high end wall boxes.

It’s not like they’ll have a huge amount of IP that you couldn’t just create yourself relatively quickly.
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Interesting blog post from one of the founders on their new business website - here.
 
Yeh I read about why Simpson and Partners exists when someone linked it in this thread (it may have even been one of you!).

It’s a shame Anderson died in the way it did and it’s not surprising that they have decided to go again after being pushed out their own company. It has a few Steve Jobs vibes to it, only that they didn’t go back and save the day.
 
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Thought the Polestar 3 looks nice, but sadly priced well out of my range.


I was hoping they would do some amazing leasing deals to get it off the ground, like with the Polestar 2 but the 'base model' was coming out at £1200 a month over 3 years!
 
Yup far too much dough, I like it though, front on looks a like cheap for some reason I look at it and think Vauxhall but other angles great.
 
Journey said:
Well Andersen have gone into administration, so if anyone has one of their chargers not sure where you'll be with regards to software updates etc.
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Yikes, glad I binned them off after they kept changing the install requirements. Had a HyperVolt for a few months now but yet to use due to car delay.
 
VincentHanna said:
Thought the Polestar 3 looks nice, but sadly priced well out of my range.


I was hoping they would do some amazing leasing deals to get it off the ground, like with the Polestar 2 but the 'base model' was coming out at £1200 a month over 3 years!
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I got my P3 order placed for the LR version yesterday : £850 per month for 3 years, 30k miles, including Ins, maintenance and tyres.

Expecting it Oct / Nov next year
 
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The energy crisis has put some damper on the plans to go 100% electric (two electric cars) with a Model Y.

More likely we'll wait a bit until fully committing.
 
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