It's brilliant for that.. get in floor it. The only issue is my retired neighbour walks into the road without looking and can't hear me coming. I nearly mowed her down twice.

Pre warming is also good

I preferred it at 14p a kWh though.

OT Trying to revive the SC car battery but I think it may be deaded

 

Yeah. Do the world a favour knock over a granny

Pre-warming I haven't tried on the basis I never plan in advance when I will go anywhere. Or is there an 'instant' option like right now? I guess less of an issue for me garaged.

 

Yeah mainly for defrosting the car, it is fast, like 5 mins fast, beats deicer

 

Harry (not that one) Metcalfe driving the E - on his dedicated test road the B4437 west from Charlbury (and about 1000m from my house).

 

It's a very good review imho

A brilliant, fun, tech prototype which shows how BEVs should be used really

Unfortunately most folk have one car to do everything and this ain't that. Not with our charging infra, pricing of fuel, pricing of cars (outside the company car / salary sacrifice brigade)

 

 

It's a shame, some of these well designed EV's have become victims of our daft govt, lack of charging infrastructure, no grant now for home charger installation, and the quadrupled electric pricing increase, not to mention poor range (far worse when "playing")
Self charging cars seem to suit the UK better, and the tiny petrol engined Hybrids.
Said it before - electric vehicles should have been 100% public transport first. For example, I caught the bus on Saturday on the way to meet friends for an infrequent Real Ale day . The bus had a 7.7 litre diesel, was belching out shit from it's arse. This is 2023, not 1983. To be fair, it was an older bus, but checking Stagecoach stock tells me that most are just under 7 litre, 260bhp soot makers.
Trouble is I guess for bus companies - they'd have to double their stock as one would be charging ready for the one running out of power

 

When I lived in Pompey I cycled everywhere, cheap, fast, healthy.. unless you went near a bus. The city is tiny.
​​​​​​The buses were pure evil belchers

The local ones here run on cow farts
​​​https://www.nctx.co.uk/gasbus

They seem way less noxious tbh. My car runs on gas too really

our local line into the city is maybe 12 miles circular.. a bus runs that in just over an hour I think so would not need enormous range for a 16hr day and they don't all run all day.

but the cost... to the people who can least afford it?

Dunno what AVG miles are post covid but people buy a car to meet 100% of their needs, not 90% (which may be wrong)

And now electricity is so expensive there is no sense for the majority in buying a BEV

I don't see it easing much either. We are terminally reliant on gas in this country for the short and medium term

 

I offloaded my E earlier this month.

It was coming up to being three years old and the trade-in price was starting to tank.

With hindsight I should have traded it for £25k in January when I bought my FL5, but hindsight is a wonerfull thing....

In the end I settled for £23.5k

I miss it, but we all have to move on at some point.


Chris.

 

I assume everything is going the same way. Dunno

Used values remain very toppy imo

New fronts now, 14.6k on them so pretty good I think as it encourages you to chuck it about and it's not light though you don't really feel the weight ime

Anyway, I have admitted to myself I don't do family cars so this stays long term as the dog waggen