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I want some of these tyres...... https://www.whichev.net/2021/06/14/renault-zoe-sets-475-mile-range-record/ "With its original OEM tyres, the first Renault Zoe achieved 424.7 miles on a single charge to smash the existing record. However, the identical Renault Zoe, fitted with ENSO’s propriety EV tyres, went further still, achieving 475.4 miles." I do not want to drive at 20 mph, except when I driving in a 20 mph zone and there is a speed camera van on that stretch of road as with last month. Fortunately had the car in B mode and a fraction of a second had the speed down from 22 mph to 20 mph indicated.

Perhaps we need to have a national campaign to collect Urea from P like Harris and other tweed firms to. I would be happy to contribute. UP to 20 grams of urea in a good P. Some would say many of us have been P'ing on diesels for years for both performance and economy. In the UK diesel fuel can now be more than 10% more expensive than petrol, probably about seven times more expensive per mile than EV and now with AdBlu becoming even more expensive the running costs of diesels is taking a double wammy. Fortunately by 2015 1.4 TDI does not use ADBlu and economy is not what I hoped as sometimes not even hitting 60 mpg which my 0.9 TCE Clio gets close to, don't think there is more than about 5% difference in the mpg and no AdBlu. I read the VW stable cars have a run immobiliser if the AdBlu level falls become the minimum level and presumably you cannot fool the car by using another liquid like water or P ?

Yes Corley, keep wanting to call it Chorley for some reason and I know that is not right. It is an old one, bit shabby. 50 kWh is fine for many of us, Zoe's only draw at 45 kWh at max ie 125 amps when they are about 360 volts and then they reduce from there. If that means that many skip them and go on to Rugby to get 100 to 350 kWh then good us low power drawers. Norton Canes on the Toll road has a few CCS chargers but I do not know of the next bank ie 6,8,10 or more chargers on the M6 which is why I still take my diesel car when going up to Liverpool or Manchester. Hope they open up the Tesla network soon to non Teslas. 4200 miles and still not used a CCS charger, it is just so much cheaper to charge at home but that is limiting me to 80 mile range or so unless I am going to my workplace at Heathrow, Cardiff, Cambridge etc where I know I can get a charge at destination, even with a granny cable in some cases. Getting there but so patchy and so much to remember what is where. Banbury looks good on the M40 which is important to me.

Bunch of Instavolt chargers at Coventry Services Westbound, just a few yards from the shabby 2 Ecotricity ones with just the one CCS, 2 AC and 2 LEAF cons. Now 15, 8 North, 7 South, mega DC chargers on that short but busy stretch between Catthorpe interchange and the M6/M6 toll road split and they join the sad little Ecotricity chargers. Popular sometimes but was quite when I went past this afternoon. 15 Instavolts on the North and South combined to add to the couple of Ecotricity on each side. All just using credit/debit cards. 50p per Kw for Instavolt on credit card, silly Ecotricity on an App that increasingly people are less likely to use despite lower price.

It is making it clearer that range is so dependant on what temperature it is when you leave home particularly in winter. This morning quite warm start, Zoe showing 215 miles at the start of the 55 miles to Oxford airport but the car loved the warm drive in ECO mode across the Cotswolds and when I got to Oxford airport I still had 180 miles shown and had only 19% according to the state of charge indicator. This is incredible and my range is well up to the 225 miles range I have not seen for 6 months and if it continues ie I am doing more travel with the EV in the 13 to 22 C of ambient and battery temperature I am sure it will be back up to 240 miles range. Cracking the winter range, and seeing the motorway/truck charging network, using Telsa or new Gridserve chargers will revert and even go beyond what range I was seeing back in early September when I first got the car. It is this temperature relationship I would like to have been clearer ie it is a graduation from the 15 C ambient down through the 10,5, and zero when that range has chunks taken out of it.

Much as already talk to my Amazon Alexa system I can imagine doing this to my autonomous self driving car ie get home at say midnight and "tell" the car to do off and charge itself and be back for 0800 in the morning for the next drive to the new destination. I would like 3 phase where I am and I understand from other posters on this topic that there is probably 3 phase wires only a few metres from my front door and a 22 kWh charger would be plenty I reckon for home us for the foreseeable future. EVs will try and and go further with similar batteries I reckon, we need to see more EVs with drag coefficients around the 0.2 Cd rather than 0.3 and they need to lose about quarter to half a tonne in weight by lighter batteries and lighter chassis. Audi built the A2 out of aluminium, disaster as it was, but just wish somebody else would move away from steel and adopt more aluminium, carbon or whatever to reduce the weights of these vehicle. My Zoe does not like hills due to its 1.6 tonne unladen weight, loves harvesting the kinetic energy on the way down though. As looking forward to battery block one could carry if one was doing a longer journey and/or to obscure places, like this...

With the Zoe with its 55 kWh battery, 52 kWh displayed and usable, I am probably not being as brave as I could be. My main place of work, my office at Heathrow, has 10 destination chargers and I have only seen one other used so with me that is ten. I broke on as it would not give me my expensive 3 phase cable back so I pulled its face off and it had to be made electrical safe and is still out of service. Still not used any DC charging on route but used a few AC charging post, one at 11 kWh, all free as we as my works chargers being free, or in actuality being paid for by the host who ones the site ie my employer, the restaurant etc. Need to bite the bullet and give a DC charger a go. Looking forward to using the Gridserve meg stations, one in Plymouth which will be awesome with its 32 charge points.... A second EV, choosing between the new Megane-e or one of the MG is logical for me as I like cheap, paying even 6 months salary for a new car sounds too much to me, or 3 years car allowance.

Nah, 4 stroke piston engines knocked in to a cocked hat by either a Maxda 7, or 8, tuned engines or 4 cylinder two stroke bikes whole different level... Mick Grants Kawasaki H2R racing machine, 3 cylinder 2 stroke on expansion chambers.(easy to road going version at the time)..

My dream journeys of getting to my work place which is rarely the same place, as below ...... A mint Jag Type S or a new Merc EQS. Must be many who would do the job for just over minimum wage and access to a good event.

A Mustang-e with a chauffeur that goes off and charges it when you are filming (or sleeping) ? Mustang has a three phase charger onboard but not as good as the Renault ie 11 kWh rather than 22 kWh but with the several thousands rapid chargers there is probably and rapid, ultra rapid 150 kWh that the mustang-e can use. A long range one of these, probably RWD rather than AWD so one can do fishtailing. Maybe a V8 noise generator from various auto firms that have read the runes and can make an EV sound like anything V8,V10,V12, Ferrari, Yank or whatever....

Oddly the TESLAs are not fast in the world of "home" charging, I think that goes to the Renault Zoe which can all charge at up to 22 kWh, the catch being if you have 3 phase which many small holdings etc do but not very many normal houses, which many European houses apparently do. The Q43 ZE40 Zoe could use 43 kWh home charging, again if one had the 3 phase. Sadly the Megane-e will probably only have a single phase 7.2 kWh charger option but I can see people building their own 50 or even 100 kWh home charger, not that difficult but one would have to have some considerable battery back up to feed it, all DC of course. So one is talking about 2 maybe 3 hours maximum charging time either at home or stopping for a coffee at say Rugby services and hooking up to one of the 350 kWh charger for a few minutes which can add up to a mile of range every seven seconds and one has saved time by not going to the petrol station and losing ten minutes if one has charged at home at Robert Llewelyn explains in his numerous Fully Charged and over EV video with both charging at home and pre-condition to defrost a car before one is due to set off. Personally I think the Hyundai/Kea are just about there in tech with TESLA< it is just they have not produced a really low aero drag car like TESLA have with the 3 and S and the public muppets like SUV which damage range by a good 5 or 10% or so. Done 4k miles in the Zoe and spent £50 on energy. Filled the Fabia up yesterday and spent £70 on a tankful, yes it showed 600 miles range but for that saving I can live with the Zoe on most journeys, it is just the motorway blasts of 200 miles and no certainty of destination charger that limits at the moment. Roll of TESLA allowing use of the TESLA supercharger network and GRIDSERVE getting more of their 50 to 350 kWh charging station. EVs will also go from 400 volt to 800 volt, maybe even 1200 volt and that should crack the fill speed issue. My company uses more Super capacitors for some of its high tech EV vehicles but that is probably still a few years off more more common road use although used in brake regen even in non EVs. https://insideevs.com/news/406504/fully-charged-renault-zoe-gt-line-r135/

Absolutely. ICE or EV, lots of short journeys lead to shorter overall range. I can see on my Zoe that the heat pump provides enough heat on a coolish day without a big hit on the separately listed, it soon becomes less than one tends to be getting back in regen which can be quite a few kWh. Big question is whether battery heating is worth it in all circumstances or just a few ? Zoe has air cooling but no heating but the battery heats up quite quickly if one if using doing even moderate speeds. Happy with it but maybe would not be in I was using it in sub zero often whereas here it has only been around zero or a few degrees above and cool battery not been a problem with only the warning popping up saying full power or regen not available with the cold battery status.

OMG 50 PSI at cold, was probably showing 52/53 when running after a few miles. If the car had skidded and had a crash and the accident investigator measured them and checked they should have been 42 PSI it would not be good for the accident report. Tesla should be very aware of tyre issues as all EV companies should be as EVs have twice as many tyres issues compare to ICE cars presumably due to their higher weights. I recall reading the damage to tyres and roads are related to the the forth power so 19% higher weight would double the damage etc to the tyres etc. If anything I think Renault go a bit low as their recommended pressure are 33 psi by some reference tyre supplier webpages. That seem and feels wrong and many Zoe owners go more 38 PSI all round and that feels good and helps the MPG. I would like to try 42 or even 45 PSI all round but it would be potentially dangerous I reckon and could not forgive myself if something bad happened.

No problemo. The winner is inner city pollution, tyre pollution apart, and therefore public health improvement we can hope to see.

Most of it comes from South America and then is refined in China, thought I read 97 %. The 21st century is the Asian century. This is the last century when Western countries will be of much significance at all. Putin knows this and is going to culture his relationship with PRC particularly but also several other Asian countries from Turkey to Indonesia. China bought up lots of the S. American mining ops. The Chinese are the ones that seem to be steaming ahead producing EV vans and car at full throttle whilst Western countries struggle with deliveries. They messed up their supply chain big time.

It says LMP on the battery pack in the rear bus and there are two in the back of the bus and 3 in the roof making up the 5 battery packs that are the traction batteries for the bus. It is made more like a lasagne that batching lots of tiny AA batteries like other EVs. I gather it "spun off" from our work in paper and hence our LMP solid state batteries used in the Autolib car program, our 6m and 12m buses used in Europe and Singapore, and now Mercedes 12M buses is There are already more than 40 Mercedes buses in service using our LMP Solid State batteries..................................... https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1132780_solid-state-batteries-are-already-being-installed-in-city-buses-update#:~:text=These Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses,sharing vehicles back in 2015.

I will await your apology..... https://blue-storage.com/en/our-technology/ LMP®: cutting-edge, effective and safe technology Backed by more than 20 years of research, the Bolloré Group is the only manufacturer that masters solid-state Lithium Metal Polymer technology (LMP®) Considered as safer than other battery technologies, these fourth-generation batteries present major benefits. Made of thin films produced using extrusion techniques perfected by the Bolloré Group, LMP® batteries stand out by their high energy density, safety of use, and performances : They are not affected by high external temperatures and do not need any cooling system thus preserving excellent performance with improved reliability Operating up to more than 105 ° C, they do not present a risk of thermal runaway thus ensuring optimum safety They are solvent-free and contain no “rare earths” so the risks of local pollution are especially limited in the event of an accident or violation of the battery pack integrity. They do not undergo a calendar aging keeping all their capacity along their lifespan They are composed of cells made in France and Canada, without cobalt and nickel, leading to an optimized LCA

My firm has made thousands of car with solid state Lithium Metal Polyimide batteries. We now licence the tech to Mercedes and they use it in their 12M buses. https://youtu.be/Om3uVW4lskE

I had not realised just how good this car had got with its revision so soon after its first launch a year or so ago and the introduction of the Long Range. Bargain price by comparison to anything else on the UK market and ranges from about 250 miles to 350 miles depending on where and weather. Most go have a look at one... https://youtu.be/hRnmRV-6LZk

This is so expensive, needs something in the Budget like dropping the VAT to 10% or even 5%. UK government would still gets its pound of flesh with prices this high. 4 thousand miles driven and still no Rapid charger used by me. If it is a long journey and I think I would need a charge looking at the dashboard data then I simply slow down. The Zoe is capable of 300 or even 400 miles if one slows down, peels off the motorway, drives through the villages the miles per Kilowatt hour starts rising to 5, 6 or even 7 miles per kWh. Think I would be a bit of a hazard doing the 20 mph done to achieve the 430 or so miles done in the record books. I am tempted to test the Rapid charger port on the Zoe, just to know that £1k option does actually work and it is there if I ever desperately need it. Still not sure if it is a good thing to occasionally rapid charge or it does a little bit more damage every time one does it compared to the gentle charging of the 3.6 kWh home and destination chargers I use. Used an 11 kW charge once at a nice little cafe in Gloucestershire, want to find a 22 kW AC to see if that works too and I see they are sometime cheaper than DC, rightly so I suppose as the provider will take the hit on the 10% rectification losses hence higher prices for DC as well as the kit being much more expensive and the provider needing to recoup their capital investment. Roll on even better solar generator boxes I can sling in the boot and charge from my own box when I am out and about.

Hydrogen could power an internal combustion engine and not only work as a fuel cell. A ICE revving is a negative thing for the technically minded compared to the plateau of a EV car. Top two quickest accelerating cars are EVs and ICE cars way behind in the acceleration stakes. I am sure some felt sorry to see steam engines without sealed crankcases ie not seeing those conrods whizzing around. Lots of EVs now do over 300 miles range, bit on the pricey side to buy initially but taken over 3 to 5 years the cost is much easier to deal with. https://ev-database.org/compare/electric-vehicle-longest-range#sort:path~type~order=.erange_real~number~desc|range-slider-range:prev~next=0~1200|range-slider-acceleration:prev~next=2~23|range-slider-topspeed:prev~next=110~450|range-slider-battery:prev~next=10~200|range-slider-towweight:prev~next=0~2500|range-slider-fastcharge:prev~next=0~1500|paging:currentPage=0|paging:number=all Add to this the much less harm EVs do to children and vulnerable health due to the NOX and the banning of Russian oil and doubling of fuel prices should get us to EV land sooner rather than later. Looking to forward to seeing more EV motorcycles, I suspect the riding experience will be pretty awesome.

Cornwall on the way back as a major specialist metal producer....... Whole 5 kgs a day as an experimental trial process, one EV a week's worth. https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insights/latest-news/energy-transition/010522-british-lithium-produces-first-lithium-carbonate-at-cornwall-pilot-plant Plenty of several rare metals in Cornwall and Devon.

Hybrid, sooooo yesterday. Fully Charged swipe at them............

Hopefully with the closure of the massive Russian Market for Renault-Lada losing them a third of million car sales Renault will spend more effort on UK sales which includes the games changing Dacia Spring in RHD to the UK, we are still waiting for Renault to commit. Since Dacia-Lada is a business unit they will be devastated on the Russia market loss so hopefully UK and Ireland will look more attractive. Would love to know if Nissan Renault Alliance perhaps expect us to buy EV Micras and their Nissan platform version of the Megane. Will have a look as I could live with either of those too. Oddly I am having less and less desire for any ID 3 or 4 platformed car, with exception of the Seats maybe, including the Skoda,. Maybe until they produce something a sleek as a Model 3 but still do not like the no knobs Tesla dash. Let's us hope the car industry can get the materials and parts to make these cars that do not rely on Russian oil to drive.

Probably my next car, the 60 kWh version. Not keen on those angled "fake" scoops at the front in bright colour. Prices are quite keen in France .... https://www.autoevolution.com/news/renault-megane-e-tech-gets-aggressive-price-in-france-undercuts-vw-id3-177096.html#:~:text=The new Megane E-Tech,with a 40 kWh battery. The new Megane E-Tech prices revealed in France show an aggressive stance against its nemesis, the VW ID.3, with a starting price of 35,200 euros ($39,440) for the 130 PS (129 HP) version with a 40 kWh battery. This figure falls to 29,200 euros ($33,000) when considering the eco bonus for electric vehicles sold in France. The price compares rather favorably with VW ID.3’s offering, which starts at 33,300 euros ($37,710) with the bonus. The German car has the benefit of a bigger battery though, at 58 kWh. Next, we have the EV60 models, with an upgraded 60 kWh battery and a 218 PS (215 HP) electric motor, which start at 34,200 euros ($38,630) with the bonus included. For comparison, an ID.3 with the same battery capacity has a less powerful motor (204 PS/201HP) and a base price of 34,900 euros ($38,400). A price of £30k would be great for the 60kWh but I suspect they will go for more like £33K and one and then might get a bit of discount after the initial launch where there will be little to no discount. I gather it is not out until Q4 or Q4 so a bit of wait to even try one. With sky high diesel and petrol prices should get a good trade in on my Zoe despite the negative safety news recently, at least my Zoe has the Emergency Braking System which seems to have dropped from the standard specs.