Electric Vehicles

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Sorry that "As an electric car driver...." bit sounds dead pretentious and wasn't meant to be. I was just trying to say I have experience.

I'm sure no-one was thinking you meant it that way. It's interesting to watch the developments from the side for now and to see EVs move into the mainstream over the last couple of years. Lady Poppy's new car is a mild hybrid (Ford are a bit behind the curve) and when I replace my car in another three years of so things will have moved forward a heck of a lot more but it will be helped by the experiences of early adopters like yourself.

Same with bikes. They're way too heavy for me right now so I'm not considering them yet, but another one or two bikes down the line? We'll see.

[Luckypants]

If anyone is interested in electric bikes in the real world, I discovered this guy on YouTube. He's been travelling around Britain on his EV bike and makes interesting watching. Only seen a couple of episodes, but its good IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/c/marctravels/videos

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

If anyone is interested in electric bikes in the real world, I discovered this guy on YouTube. He's been travelling around Britain on his EV bike and makes interesting watching. Only seen a couple of episodes, but its good IMO.

Mike, I think you forgot the link!

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

Mike, I think you forgot the link!

Ooops!!

Fixed

[Sir Trev]

If its the German guy I think Mike means, look up a channel called Marc Travels

[Sir Trev]

Ah, you beat me to it.

I've seen a couple of his videos and they're quite good.

[Luckypants]

I'm resurrecting this thread as I find this subject crops up a lot these days and would like the maturity of debate on here that isn't an EV fan echo chamber.

I'd like to say that we are both still thrilled with our ID.4 after two years. VW have worked to resolve a lot of the software short-comings since we bought and most are resolved. None of these software problems has affected us. One of the software updates even gave us a 10% improvement in efficiency AND faster charging which makes long distances even easier. We've never had a problem with any long trips we do.

[daktulos]

I'll bite! It's been (almost) three years since this thread started. That's 30% of the time left before petrol cars will be banned. The council has made absolutely no progress in rolling out charging points, nothing has changed. I still can't see how they're going to make it work.

They are apparently, looking at on-street charging for "residents who don't have their own off-street parking and aren't within reasonable walking distance of a current or planned public chargepoint", but that will probably mean they'll put one charge point in for 100 homes and be done with it. I think they're hoping everyone will take up cycling instead.

I'd have no problem with an electric car, but I live on a terraced street where my front door opens right out onto a narrow pavement. The street lights are mostly converted gas lamps and apparently aren't suitable for chargers.

For me, it's not a problem with the cars, it's a problem with the infrastructure and the councils which need to provide it. I'm still hoping for someone making hydrogen practical.

[admin]

We often go away for weekends and stay at hotels. I've noticed that there's never a charging point at the places we stay, usually Premium Inn or Holiday Inn. So I'd have to drop my wife at the hotel then drive to the nearest charger and then walk back to the hotel.

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[Seeker]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

I'd like to say that we are both still thrilled with our ID.4 after two years.

It's great that you're pleased with it. As someone who drives a 13 year old Yaris about 2000 miles a year an electric car would make sense. However, if I was to replace the Yaris I would be looking at an Aygo size car and therein lies the problem. A new Aygo is about £15k, a Nissan Leaf is £28k.


I do see a lot of Teslas about even in our impoverished part of the country.