Love it. The reviews rave about these as a return to form for Honda
Rog would like the colour

I would have liked to have a go in one but I don't need that power in the fam motor (and a big price gap)

we are moving so I removed my ohme today and tried out the new drive in the very old Honda

The garage needs a lot of work so my other S2 is in storage at the mo

 

Jesus wept just checked the Octopus 'Go' tariff current rates. 7.50p/unit wee small hours but 30.84p/unit otherwise.
My current fix until 8/22 is 5p/unit low rate or 15.96p/unit. By jingo a change is gonna come.

Must buy more house batteries

 

If you take your data and apply those costs you would lose money even Vs current flex tariff

Apparently the current setup does not allow enough flex for prices, octopus subsidise that tariff but its only good for high milers

 

My house batteries have been rendered obsolete by improved ones that let you discharge down to zero. Doesn't bother me 10% of 2.4kWh is scraping the barrel and they do adapt well and recover after cold weather. You can still get them and prices are down to £750 a pop so I plan to increase from 9.6kWh (4 units) to 14.4kWh (6 units). Gambling that Octopus won't do away with the 'Go' tariff completely as long as BEVs still sell that should be 2/3rds of our annual consumption at the lower 'Go' rate.

But that's before the air sourced heat pump goes on stream to heat the pool oo er

 

Tight parking is doable


I have also found that one pedal mode (go kart or dodgem) is bad for economy
I stopped using it due to LSB complaints and am seeing regular 4-5 miles per kw and range increases
the paint is incredibly easy to damage, where the dog gets in there are many scuffs already

 

Another journalist in favour of short range trips, horror story of long distance travel in a big BEV, an expensive Audi allegedly 298 miles range actually more like 200.
He does mention the A11 and Norfolk to which my answer would be, don't bother mate

 

Multiple issues there
Audi.. part of vadge.. lying about mileage in shock horror? Old habits
I have never had hugely different range on the e. If you twat it on a run, 90mph, it does reduce though.. but prob not by 33%

Charging network is variably shit though. BP proliferation is an issue (they are shit)

 

Got back from hols to a flat 12v

Car immobile, outside me garage with the charger in
Doh
Anyway new record range.. currently get c4mi/KW so 7p a mile (incredible how my 100% green energy doubled in cost?)

​​​​​​Equates to over 100mpg at current prices

 

And so it begins. Authorities using smart chargers to control us.
This from Ohme, my home EV charger supplier.
As from July 2022,

I can understand the 4pm-10pm boycott, my old Octopus 'Agile' tariff (RIP) used to charge a lot for 4-7pm peak time electricity.

But 8am-11am? Who charges their BEV then? Bored idle housewives waiting to pop out to the mall?
– All new chargers will need to have a default off-peak charging setting enabled (you’ll know if this has been applied if the toggle in ‘Charge Schedules’ is green). Peak charging times are on weekdays between 8am-11am and 4pm-10pm, so this setting will automatically shift charging to outside of these time windows regardless of when you plug in.

 

This link may be useful to understand it - it contais a chart of average hourly consumption. There is a big rise from 8am.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig9_324141791