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Zap map is unofficial default App but many of use Electroverse or the individual Gridserve, Ionity or the inbuilt Google 12 as I have in the Scenic. None are perfect and it is not easy when there are 2,000 new charger being added each month on average. Think a new status is needed ie working but limited to 100 A ie 38 or so kWs as I had a few days ago as I think the cable cooling had failed on the 350 kw ie circa 500 A capable charger which I presume could do 800v instead of just 400v as my EVs aritecture is.

Some Japanese and especially Italian bikes and cars, I am sure, deliberately were overreacting by 10% or sometimes a bit more. Ie I have just had my Jota, Guzzi etc up to over 140 mph. Guy on Triumph or Norton said, I only had 125 mph on my Smiths speedo ! Helps sell these none English bikes in the speedo lies big time. Not cricket.

Like my motorcycles with digital display they also over read by about 5%. I think it is deliberately made so. Therefore with tyres with absolute minimum tread, maybe a bit underinflated too it will still not under display tge speed so vehicle makers, even when they can be within 1 or 2 percent, overread by 5 % or so. Find it odd that at least with Renault the distance measuring seems to under read by about 3 or 4%, odd.

Think it was Beford Police Commisioner who wanted to, raise some money. He has the M1 running through his patch. Think he was put down eventually.

The voice from the outer world, well Cornwall, has got a 6 months ban for speeding, wonder if it was in an EV ? Is it you have to either have several speeding tickets for the 10% plus 2,3, 4 mph or be clocked at over 30 mph over this nominal plus 10% + 2 mph etc Think it might be the former as he said this last court session for speeding gave him another 4 points taking him to 13 point in total hence the 6 month ban. Sorry to hear it has curtailed his livelihood and especially sorry to hear he has cataracts which need to be treated but sounds like he was not adhering to systems that most professional drivers have. One can see truck drivers playing the percentages ie driving at what we see on our speedometers as 53 or 54 in a 50 mpg zone. The know there actual speed is probably 51 or 52 and within tolerance. It would be nice to hear him praise the systems that EVs particularly have ie digital instrumentation, Google maps, traffic signal reading, and over speed warning. Even sped limiting, my Scenic will not do over an indicate 71 mph in ECO mode and it has a top speed of only 90 mph. A story of education for many of us who need to driver for our jobs which I will take away. The days of my motorcycle buddies doing the near 120 miles from Bristol to Ivybridge or Plymouth in not much over an hour, it is about 120 miles, or the M25 orbital, 117 miles, in an hour are long gone. Just sit back stay within the limits, calibrate your speedometer with GPS and do not get in to the situation of this wally. Keep speeding on the race track please.

Zoe ZE50 implies 50 kWs, actually 52 usable and actual 55 kWs if you want to run in to the Turtle Zone and get another dozen or so miles.

Snow White and six dwarfs. Have to be the EV9 then.

A bit basic and many cars have more than 3 option. SCENIC has 4 and in all but ECO you can do some configuring. ECO limits to 71 mph, hardly a tight limit but is still a bit of a pain sometimes. Some cars have regen on the gearstick, oft only low or high, Megane and Scenic have 4 levels on paddles, left paddle raises, right paddle lowers. Level 1 is no reg which is great for freewheeling and preserving momentum then a low medium and high but not quite one pedal driving. I am already exceeding tge WLTP of the Scenic by about 5%, as I already do in the Zoe. Highish tyre pressures help, bit of drafting sometimes. Both the Zoe and Scenic have one or two kwh below zero percent. Only seen the turtle once in well over 3 years.

It does look like even a good fake. Musk head on a different body photo chop it looks to be and not what Musk is suppose to be focusing on at the moment.

Most of us can spot fake news in a second.

Thanks the above. £110 in second year beyond is cool. Presumably be just under a tenner per month with ice and even hybrids paying nearly twice this. Happy to pay some tax for the EVs. Might take the off the road for February and put back on in March if the "retaxing" does not work for my two September anniversary cars. Q."When is your cars birthday ? " A September 15 th. Q. which year ? A. Every year ! (Hot Fuzz in the pub Sgt Angel questioning under age drinkers).

See what the budget in an hours time does for this. 6p a litre if the previously introduced 5p reduction in excise is scrapped as RAC mentioned should happen.

The giant clay mining areas of Cornwall and South Devon are a site to behold. We regularly would get the Dr Who film crew down there when they wanted an alien landscape.

Great to see this. Lots in Cornwall and some materials in South Devon too I think.

I am thinking the Renault 4 will be the more useful car though I gather it might be more expensive R5 which is reverse logic. I think the 40 kwh LFP versions should sell well but dealers will push to the 50 kwh lithium I suspect. Be interesting to see prices and whether R4 is a good repayment for my Zoe.

The ZE50 interests me as it is the model that local Renault did not want back, though ok to have my mild hybrid Arkana back, as it was worth about £5k less than my PCP pay off amount, that was 3 months ago when I was doing the deal for the Scenic etech. Roll on 3 month, and despite coming up to winter and the values are up around £11k from the £9k it was. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?advertising-location=at_cars&aggregatedTrim=Riviera&make=Renault&model=Zoe&postcode=wr40lx&sort=relevance Now "wise youtube men", like the self appointed expert above, seem to think those who drive EVs despair over EVs losing their value quickly overthe first 5 years or so, the truth is far from it in most case. As most EVs are on PCP a low market value can mean that the local dealer who is obliged to take back the EV after 2, 3, 4 years, is in a tough spot as is the nation marque importer. I can easily just say "take the car back", having paid my two hundred and something pounds a month for having the car, which costs next to nothing to run and I have made money on mileage claims from HMRC or he can, and it has been intimated, he will cut me a deal on buying the car I have grown to like over the past 3, 4 years. As Renault do not really want a car worth much less than the balloon payment, unless I do a deal for a new Renault 5 or 5 EV, which is highly likely, I understand they will offer to sell my Zoe Riviera for thousands below the balloon payment ie round about between the trade in and re-retail value. So no, quite happy for the market value to be on the low side ie residual of around a third after 3 years but some, probably many, EVs are bouncing back in value on Autotrader and in the auction houses quite well. Winners and losers of course as some EVs are exposed as poor value as not reaching their WLTPetc by a huge margin whilst other are seen as gems.

Apparently, if one plugs in to a powerful DC charger ie over 100 kws, but one only sees 35/36 kwh when one is expecting over 100 kw charging as the car is capable of over 100 kw and battery is half or less charged it means the cable cooling has failed and that is quite common, even happened on Ionity chargers which are normally quite good. Live and learn.

I got Flame Red and it was a "free" colour, yeah.

With my Zoe I have only used AC three times in 3 years and that was as much just to see the what happened as good have made it home without charging even though 200 kms from charging at home. Scenic has even greater range but both can charge on 22 kw AC when around. I am not sure we going to need a hundred thousand rapid chargers because the pace battery capacities are increasing people will charge even more so at home or destination at the almost or actually free juice.

Majority of are type 2 for AC and CCS combo plug for DC. That must cover the majority ie non TESLA and weird LEAF and a few other Asian built cars mostly years ago.

Popping down to South Wales in the Scenic tomorrow and plan to pop in to the Ionity site at Magor, not the service station but the commercial estate on the other side of the junction. 350 kw beasts but I will be plugging in my 60 kwh, nominal, Scenic which is supposedly able to draw down power up to 135 kw. Literally just want to try it own, maybe just pull down 5 kwh which should take about 9 minutes, give me about 23 miles added range, which I do not really need as I can easily do the 150 mile round trip from Worcester to Caldicot and back. Subway 100 feet away from chargers. Could take longer to get subway meal deal than get the charge I want. So much better than the Zoe with its 45 kw charge rate, at best, three times faster with the liquid cooled Scenic rather than air Zoe. Still love the Zoe though. Test completed, charge charge lobbed on to the Electroverse bill over to Octopus account so will not even notice the cost as it will not change my Direct Debit. Happy day, its like getting it for free.

I would say good at all roads except motorways unless you go for a motorway specialist EV like the TESLAS, Polestar, ID7 perhaps. The SUV, MPV, family and city car EVs not so much unless you can be happy only doing a mile a minute rather than 5 miles ever 4 minutes as some want or need to. It will change as energy density continue to improve and the 1000 kms at 120 kph or so become affordable.

Those who only drive ICE cars do not appreciate that EVs gey more and more efficient the slower they go. Due the multiple reductions of the ICE drive train and inherent losses of the piston engine, always hope Dr Felix ****el's engine would prevail, the nature of ICE is nowhere near tge efficiency of EVs round town and at slow speeds. I have found that this figure if only 3 or 4 miles per kwh is what one gets when barrelling along at the NSL but slow down, sit amongst or preferable in the aero slipstream of trucks and vans and only can do much more than the WLTP. Extreme I know but one can double that WLTP figure if one tries hard, save a packet in not spending money at public rapid chargers. Take the A road or the bypass or through town if relatively quiet. Save even more money on charging at that next much cheaper than ICE service is even farther away. Five pound fill ups taking us 3 or 4 hundred miles feels very good.

Don't think it will be a big seller but 600 litre boot and efficient at highish speeds and if you can get for not much over 30k it sound good value. Personally just not an estate fan visually ie would not like on the drive, maybe a company van version would sell ?

It is total tax so not just income tax and NI but also IPT, VAT, VED and all other taxes. Presumably does not include Employer NI which is a tax on employing a worker and is considered within the cost of hiring and employing month on month. Pinch points are being paid over 50k pa and then over £100k pa when serious consideration given to skimming of that which goes over and using salary sacrifice or maybe drop to 4 days or 3 days not to pay so much tax. Job that attract thousands or tens of thousands of bonus require altering the standard percentage in to pensions or just putting that bonus straight in to the pension pot. Both an art and a science. EV salary sacrifice another majority used tax avoidance measure, UK government setup. Don't use it myself so get wacked on car allowance and then pay my pcp out of salary. We were suppose to be joining the Octopus salary sacrifice scheme but our buyout put all that on hold boo hoo.