EV Owners Thread

[CXRAndy]

Son has received his model Y today. He took me and a friend to the restaurant .

There is so much more space on the rear seats compared to a model 3.

 

[november4]

This is a good watch from a motoring journalist, very good content on the current state of the Uk car market

View: https://youtu.be/nZysvgm2_Aw?si=Rlxxeskx2eYQ8Xlc

 

[FishFright]

This is a good watch from a motoring journalist, very good content on the current state of the Uk car market

View: https://youtu.be/nZysvgm2_Aw?si=Rlxxeskx2eYQ8Xlc

Because it's just no fun if you're not causing asthmatics to suffer.

 

[icowden]

This is a good watch hot take from a motoring journalist, very good pessimistic content on the current state of the UK car market

Fixed that for you. I will confess to scanning it, but the section I saw where he was complaining about the range calculation rapidly changing from the original prediction just shows he's never used the range predictor on a diesel which is just as inaccurate. Range is always guesswork because it depends on weather, how you are driving, traffic etc.

 

[chris-suffolk]

just shows he's never used the range predictor on a diesel which is just as inaccurate.

Agreed!!

I nearly always get more miles then the range predictor says I would, though why anybody would moan about that don't know, as I would have thought it was positive.

 

[BoldonLad]

Fixed that for you. I will confess to scanning it, but the section I saw where he was complaining about the range calculation rapidly changing from the original prediction just shows he's never used the range predictor on a diesel which is just as inaccurate. Range is always guesswork because it depends on weather, how you are driving, traffic etc.

The range, be it Electric, petrol or diesel is, an estimate, not a law of physics. It is how big the variation between prediction/estimate and actual which matters. In my experience, Petrol/Diesel is reasonably accurate, Electric not so much so.

 

[november4]

If you don't watch the whole thing there's no point commenting on something that's addressed in there

 

[CXRAndy]

This is a good watch from a motoring journalist, very good content on the current state of the Uk car market

View: https://youtu.be/nZysvgm2_Aw?si=Rlxxeskx2eYQ8Xlc

I watched that the other day. He has invested in solar, bought Jaguar Ipace(probably worst expensive EV) then bleats about range. He really is a petrol head at heart

 

[icowden]

If you don't watch the whole thing there's no point commenting on something that's addressed in there

On the flip side, if I watch a bit of something and it's a load of drivel, I've saved myself some time watching the rest of it.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Just noticed one of my neighbours has bought a nearly new BMW i7 Xdrive60 Excellence . Wow , did a google on that model and shoot that has all the toys !

 

[mikeIow]

Just noticed one of my neighbours has bought a nearly new BMW i7 Xdrive60 Excellence . Wow , did a google on that model and shoot that has all the toys !

Bloody hope so for over £100k 🤣
I didn’t feel that old (until now?!), but I remember my first house cost me under £30k 🤪

 

[MrGrumpy]

Bloody hope so for over £100k 🤣
I didn’t feel that old (until now?!), but I remember my first house cost me under £30k 🤪

His last was a 740 luxury ! Don’t think that was cheap neither ;-)

 

[CXRAndy]

Bloody hope so for over £100k 🤣
I didn’t feel that old (until now?!), but I remember my first house cost me under £30k 🤪

You must be whipper snapper. My first house £8k

 

[BoldonLad]

You must be whipper snapper. My first house £8k

£3,400 in 1968 Just noticed it for sale a few weeks ago, £180.000

 

[CXRAndy]

£3,400 in 1968 Just noticed it for sale a few weeks ago, £180.000

My mate bought a similar house a year before me £3000. He sold it 4 years later £30k. I sold mine 10 years later £27k.