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I actually have the 120 hp R5 but the torque is close to the 150 hp car and with the less weight and the standing kilometer time is less than 5% different.... https://zeperfs.com/en/duel12733-13244.htm Most EVs are single gear so limited to about 100 mph. Those with two gears can do 125 mph or even over 150 mph but that is only really possible in Germany of course.

We know electric cars, from stored energy to motion and then excess speed being taken off in Regen to go back in the battery, pure ICE cannot do this and hybrid can do to as degree. I gather there is about a 10% cost of putting vehicle kinetic energy back in to the traction battery and of course the 10% cost of redeploying that energy back in to the EVs forward motion so an over al 20% loss but this is small compared to the mere 35% or so efficiencies of ICE vehicles. Maintaining a nice steady cruising speed, not speeding along too deep in to the 60 mph plus where aero costs are high, unless one has a very slippery Model 3, Polestar, Mercedes CLA e which CD of about 0.22, similar to Model 3. think my Scenic 0.29 hence not great at the limit of legal motorway speed ie up to 78 mph. Happy around 60-65 mph !

I think it is Torque not Power. Nm at very low revs rather than Horsepower and mid or upper rev range. Depends on the EVs, for cruising speeds as most EVs are SUVs and therefore the Cd and frontal surface area is against them, mainly due to battery pack jacking the car up. Notable exceptions are TESLA model 3 and Polestar but there are a raft of Chinese low saloons and sports arriving in Europe. I am happy to drive at 60 mph myself and not bother with NSL, NSL +10% +2%, just not in that much of a rush these days. I cannot imagine what nearly 5,000 Nm is like in the Renault 5E. Tyre shredding I would have thought.

Gen 4 Formula e cars to be quicker than F1 at some tracks ? To be seen later this year. Spec:- Permanent 4 wheel drive, 600 kw ie 815 hp in Attack and Qualy mode, with 700 Kw regen, record-shattering 1.8-second 0-60 mph launch.

Indeed as modern cars have a fuel loop there is that quite a big of fuel in that loop. I think the pickup for the fuel in the tank is not quite at the bottom so should not pick up the very dregs. Cavitation ie air in the system can damage fuel pump gubbins and the motor driving it. As long as lithium batteries don't drop below about 3v pet cell I think there are ok and with EVs they start throttling power and giving dash warning this is happening but the Stare of Charge indication seems to vary hugely between marques.

Rather than Scrooge I would suggest it becomes an obsessive " hobbie" that does have addictive qualities. The constant drive to use less electricity and there is so much digital information that one get immersed in this detail and on can lose some what the sight of objectives like carbon reduction. No matter how much I play with electricity I still have a gas boiler which is chucking out carbon autumn, winter and spring. I have adopted these solar, battery and grid usage managements systems as one of my retirement projects and I do enjoy pottering with it. Biggy is to get the EV charged from battery and solar when the grid price is not great. 4 Kw solar generators are not cheap. Just bought another 2 Kw ish one but it is not going to make a big adding to 40 or 60 Kw EV batteries. Man had to have a hobby and if it does save, or be cost neutral, it does keep me amused.

Will start watching at some point. Customs did so many roles for other government departments because they were there at the frontier. A role dating back to Prince John's time The gauges, BMS, and range guessometer are looking at average lithium battery voltage i would presume but probably more sophisticated than that. I am glad Renault do as TESLA does, Nissan, Renault and TESLA have the most experience in producing EVs over the last 15 years or so. It's what you get use to I suppose. Just odd swapping from the Mini which zero is zero and Renaults where you have 15 to 30 miles left. As I mentioned the Scenic did not even give a dash warning that performance would become limited after 11 miles below 0% SoC being shown. The Mini starts ratcheting back from its 184 hp from about 20% SoC. Consistency would be nice if they could get sone agreement or EU laws dictates a standard maybe.

5E to be at Goodwood as taster before deliveries, only 1980 being made. With 540bhp and 4,800Nm of torque, the Turbo 3E will go from 0-60mph in under 3.5 seconds. Despite having two rear-mounted in-wheel motors, the 3E weighs just 1,450kg. Renault has also equipped the 3E with rapid 330kW charging, meaning that a 10 to 80 per cent charge can be completed in just over 15 minutes. A range of over 249 miles is claimed, too. July’s Goodwood Festival of Speed event will mark the first time that the £140,000 5 Turbo 3E will have been driven in front of crowds, having only been displayed in static form up until this point.

Mk 2 Taycan EV quantum better than Mk 1 version, even the wally McMaster says so though I don't like the zero buffer if one approaches zero miles State of Charge, prefer the Renault and TESLA substantial buffer. If one can get one on the EV salary sacrifice scheme (SS), and like the Audi e-tron too, an absolute bargain with a 4 or 5 hundred a month quid less than non SS deals. Audi, Porsche, VW Group seem to be finally getting their EV products competing with other EV makers, about time but possibly too late.

I recall the big super market contamination in 2007, nearly 20 years ago but it was massive .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_petrol_contamination Silicon in this case and it affected several supermarkets. Only problem I get with electricity is the voltage seems to vary ie 230 to 240 volts which means my charging time varies and is more difficult to calculate, less serious than fuel contamination thankfully. Supermarket fuel contamination not only required flushing but lambda sensors were damaged it was reported. Disaster. I recall it was fuel purchased off Dutch petrol market and imported rather than refined here in UK. Water contamination the more usual issue via ingress into storage tank.

The look on the farmer or other Red diesel cheat that one is seizing their vehicle is priceless.... Done this myself for Bootleggers ie booze and backy smugglers. In reality usually restore they vehicle for a relatively smallish fee but there would be the Level 4 penalty for using Red etc. I do miss some aspects of the job. There is a new Netflix series about customs Officers back in the 90s and the brave work done https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81708404

Point is for non farmers to not use the ever diminishing diesel we have and keep the price down for them. UK diesel for duty free uses has a red marker, green in Ireland, orange in Holland etc. UK HMRC RFTU who search for illegal use of Red Diesel sample the diesel cars of farmers etc at Cattle Markets etc. Marker can be present world after uses just one tank even after weeks of them doing so. Vehicle can be forfeit as well as fine. Excise rise in September nay well get postponed I guess.

You do love your click bait scaremonger YouTube vid. Is it BMW and Mercedes only and in the US ? People in Covid masks in the bits of vid from years ago ? I would not buy buying a BMW but I do hope it does not come to Mini. More fool for a buying a BMW if still extant. Also not a Toyota fan. Arrogant and now surpassed by many other brands. Some brands are so desperate to get extra money as they are considering getting extra money to stay solvent. No mention of Renault and non premium brands thankfully.

The price had to be right for someone to take out PCP or lease ir whatever. Dealers will try and get the best but they will not keep stock too long on their books as they cash flow hit is too painful. This dealers who wait too long will eventually even put these cars thru action and where fas been some good deals of EV cars but also EV vans going thru the auctions but eventually all these vehicles find their way to market.

Plus more cars hitting the criteria to get the full EV grant of £3750 and battery packs continuing to get cheaper. Battery packs being made up in France, Germany abd Polabd as well as UK is helping companies tick the boxes for getting full grant.

The SMTT data shows the continued market for cars moving towards BEVs, MEVs and PHEVs.... PHEVs over 20k sales, BEVs over 39k and HEVs nearly 20k so nearly 80k cars with pure diesel and petrol down to just under 47%. Still to see the big discounts which normally come with BEVs later in the year to try and hit the one third of cars being EVs which is part of the mandate.

R5 is light and Scenic a bit more but not very heavy even for the 90 KWh battery version well under 2T kerb weight. Just down to how the makers chooses to do their BMS. Be nice to have an agreed consistency i reckon.

Interesting that the legacy car makers have so little eange after zero state of charge shown, tested Bjorn Nyland saw as little as 2 miles after 0% SoC which compared to Renaults and TESLAs doing tens of miles after 0% is a massive difference on how battery management is done and is very confusing for users.

Yes seems to be widespread give back from the big suppliers. Wind power production did not look huge ie over 10 GW but solar was similar. Thought wind would be twice or 3 times solar. Live Grid does not seem to quote what UK domestic customers and businesses feedin could be big, at least a GW would have thought and how cheap are the interconnector supply costs, fraction of a penny per KWh ?

Are prices softer since ME war started ? Hard to resist a bargain that is super comfortable especially if not horrendous on fuel. Still reminisce over my A4 with its 130 hp pdi engine. Filling it up and seeing nearly a 1000 miles on the range predictor. In the other hand with today and tomorrow's negative electricity prices I can stop at Gloucester services Farm shop services abd have more to spend on grub !

Odd when my old firm and other firms in the logistics firms are finding electric trucks superior in both cost and performance. At a guess I would say those efforts to make such specialist EV vehicles gave not had the technical development that cars, trucks and vans have had. Tesla commencing production of 50k Seminper year, Articulated trucks as the test have gone so well. BYD going ever bigger in all of their EV manufacturing classes. I am looking at going EV on motorcycle as well but torn on the choice. Fancy the Royal Enfield Flying Flea but its a little small for me but there are ever increasing choices out there and prices getting more affordable and the acceleration is good. Starting to think about what I could change the Scenic for as gave had that nearly 2 years and with the hew crop of EV cars the choice is even more difficult and great prices with more getting the full grant now.

Necessity is the mother of invention it is said. Moving from what most EV operators do ie charge up overnight on cheapish lecky, but this is being undermined as even Octopus are now charging more for Night time charging than before the government's 3.51 p per KWh reduction ie over 8.6 p per KWh for Octopus GO Night time rate. So I switched to Octopus Agile tariff which "tracks" costs, some ie up to 32 hours forward pricing given to consumers, predicting solar and wind production plus overlayed of nuclear base load of course. This price can be anywhere between minus 11 p per KWh on quite a few occasions, -19 p per KWh being the record I think, and is under 5 p per KWh about 12% of the time, weekend naturally being a likely time. So I am transitioning from fixed night time charge and home using to when ever it is cheapest which looks like being usually PM, up to 4 pm and weekend, BHs the probably times for cheap / free / negative electricity for EVs and home. Easier now I am retired.

I thing Agile tariff is available to all, no conditions, no need to prove having an EV !

The difference is a conundrum. If there are some who have invested in solar and batteries but not seeing a financial advantage might be keeping quite out of embaressment. I gather some solar installs are reckoned to take 10 or 15 years to repay but that was before the price of fuel went nuts 8 weeks ago so the maths are different now. Pace of change seems constant round these parts, one side they just got a BYD Atto 1 for one daughter and on the other they just got a model 3, side with the BYD theg are using a granny charger and a thick wired extension lead I made for them, wallbox installed to charge the 3. Neither those houses have solar but many other houses do in the street. With changes in fuel prices but also some of the incredibly cheap, even free electricity to charge cars and home many are catching on to vastly lowering their outgoings in some areas ie their transport and home running costs, meaning sone household can divert money to other aspects which are costing more, council tax etc.