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£4400, that is a bargain. Will be interested to see the current range after any degradation but generally Renault batteries do not lose much especially if only AC charged, I would expect 5 to 10% so hopefully not far off 100 miles summer range and 70 miles winter range, note sure if these had heat pumps.

After the departure of Mr Diess and internal reviews VW Group realises it is in huge trouble unless the partnership with SAIC, and maybe a sell off to SAIC, works.......

I thought it was the leader of White Russia ie Belarus ! It is stunning that such people get any number of significant clicks on their youtube vids. Usually watch for about a minute and then chop away as it become obviously so misinformed. EV owners know of some of the issues but they are either being solved, like the huge rollout of UK charging stations. Residual values are just a market manifestation and have to be taken on the chin for those who have bought, Road tax for EVs in 2025 is a coming in for April 2025 but if it means that more money is spent on the roads, here is hoping, then I am OK with that. We will see what really happens as we are predicted to have a Labour government by 2025 so what actually happens may be different as to what is being planned at the moment.

The Renault Zoe is the best selling EV in Europe over the decade and I think for good reason. Yes the Zoe is only a B segment car so not as roomy as the LEAF but as a consequence, and some better tech choices its range has been the best of small EVs. Not much room for tall rear seat passengers, boot is OK at 330 litres. Currently getting 240 miles of range, this reduces to as low as 160 miles in the depths of winter. Lack of seat height adjustment bit of a pain on longer journeys. Fastest AC charging of any EV, DC charging on those Zoe's that have it is slow compared to other EVs. Done 14k miles in my ZE50 Riviera and only did my first DC charge yesterday which was a breeze. Worcester to Southampton with full luggage for a cruise. Renault might survive Chinese/TESLA domination with its new relationship with Gelly but it looks like all other European HQ car companies are toast and unlikely to survive another decade without extreme EU protectionism.

Nice new setup at Tothill on the A34, just south of Newbury but on the Northbound side but easily accessed by Southbound as well....... Nine 150 kw CCS-UK chargers plus Chademo on each but only one car can charge per charger unit. Zoe sucked up the lecky at it peak rate, a stellar 46 kW, took 14 minutes to get 10 kWh of charge, was tailing off to below 40 kw despite being only 55 % ful so called it a day, only needed 45 miles more of range to give me a big margin and use up some of my free £10 of Octopus credit. Cost me £8, with my 5% Octopus discount and it goes on to my house lecky bill I gather So first time DC charging, after 14k miles of AC charging. Pleasant experience, big Shell shop there and Maccy Ds few yards away. N ot so much for the Jaaag who could not get his charge flap open. If you buy British / Indian / Slovakian cars one should expect some problems I suppose.

Its a tonic Officer, 15% Alcohol by Volume, really, fortified wine you say.

I am doing one of my longest trip tomorrow, about 135 miles from Worcester to Southampton to board a cruise ship to Norway, hoping I still have 50 to 100 miles of miles left so I can easily find a rapid DC charger or highish output AC charger somewhere on the 135 mile journey home. With all the warm weather ie above 15 C, the Zoe should be getting it maximum 240 mile range or so, as long as I do not sustain over 60 mph for too long stints on the A roads and motorways down to the port. Get all the tyres up to 40 psi with all the luggage too. Zoe is still up with the best of small cars if not the leader on looks or even seat comfort as the no height adjustment on the seat is a bug bear. Will miss her when she has gone but after 21 months, with 27 month to go, generally pleased with my choice. currently showing 212 miles range, son who hates the eco button been driving it, but charge said it still had an hour or two to complete, it will show 100% charge all the time but it will commence battery balancing process and should creep up another 10 or 20 miles. e-corsa and mini and better lookers, unless one actually like goof French looks of the Zoe but other features score well. George, hope your last days with the e-corsa go well and the mini is as trouble free as possible in its stint with you.

Which for a car with either 230,300 or 420 hp is much slower than the power translate as. Drivers in Germany regularly drive at over 200 kph from what i have seen to perhaps Polestar thought 185 kph was a bit slow for the European market and over 200 kph more appropriate. Not sure if any of the Polestars are two geared, like TESLA and Audi /Porsche are. Many EVs do not have the gearing to reach a top speed commensurate with their power. My Clio will do over 110 mph with 90 hp but the Zoe will not do much more than indicated 90 mph every though it has half as much power again ie 135 hp, probably closer to 150 hp according to the power reading on the dash. It is speed limited on the electric motor revs. All fairly academic unless driving on the Autobahns.

Dacia, Renault and Volvo all limit their top speeds to 112/113 mph since the last year or so. https://www.motor1.com/news/503466/renault-dacia-limit-top-speed/ Not TESLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rzGb26wBoA

Again, so pleased I have a Zoe which can charge at 22 kw AC. Other cars that can charge at 22 kw AC, a Maybach, not much else other than Renaults, "Chameleon charging". # Car AC charge power 1. Lightyear 0 22 kW 1. Lotus Eletre Eletre R 22 kW 1. Lotus Eletre Eletre S 22 kW 1. Lotus Eletre 22 kW 1. Maserati GranTurismo Folgore 22 kW 1. Maserati Grecale Folgore 22 kW 1. Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV Maybach 680 22 kW 1. Mercedes-Benz EQT 200 22 kW 1. Pininfarina Battista 22 kW 1. Polestar 4 Long Range Dual Motor 22 kW 1. Polestar 4 Long Range Single Motor 22 kW 1. Renault Twingo E-Tech Electric R80 22 kW 1. Renault Zoe R135 22 kW 1. Renault Zoe R110 22 kW 1. Rimac Nevera 1408 kW 22 kW 1. Smart #1 Brabus 22 kW 1. Zeekr 001 Performance AWD 22 kW 1. Zeekr 001 Long Range RWD 22 kW 1. Zeekr 001 Privilege AWD 22 kW 1. Zeekr X Privilege AWD 22 kW

Wow, the savings in servicing over those 200k miles. The level of performance still. I followed this key guy for a couple of years and I would happily let him service my Zoe, might well do. I hope he sets up a national, including Scotland as I have seen him up there several times in his videos, as he is, perhaps, and mobile fixers like him, the answer for the future rather than those dealers who take a big slice of new and second hand sales and do a pretty poor job of servicing and whose knowledge is basically pants. Interesting vid and good contribution to the overall argument for TESLA if not EVs. Did not comment about the panel fit, wonder why ?

Quite sure that TESLA could make closer fitting panels if it was a priority but their priority appears to be make cars with the highest efficiency, taking the least time to produce so they can get them out to buyers ASAP, high level crash performance, cost efficiency which allows them to continue reduce the retail price as part of a process to push other car marques out of the market which looking at sales, facts like VW lowering its EV production on top of VW's massive corporate debt makes it look like car makers like VW do not have much time left in the mainstream car production business. Similar for BMW and Mercedes. Maybe some European HQ'd companies may survive, those who are already well established with production facilities in Asia. Musk's companies do this below, improving panel fit is perhaps not their highest priority ?

I presume the IQ literally had next to know space to put a battery pack. With the Zoe one becomes acutely aware of just how much space a battery pack can take up ie with the Zoe one is perched on top of it, no seat height adjustment, a car that weight quarter of ton more than the Clio it is parked next to. Still very much pleased with the Zoe but future EV cars will have much higher power density batteries and more flexible shapes that will not compromise the seating, weight quite as much.

Changed a bit. Cruising at as near the Motorway NSL one needing to be wearing ear defenders. With a maximum top speed of 72 mph (116 km/h), a curb weight of 1411 lbs (640 kgs), the Mini 850 has a naturally-aspirated Inline 4 cylinder engine, Petrol motor. This engine produces a maximum power of 34 PS (34 bhp - 25 kW) at 5500 rpm and a maximum torque of 60.0 Nm (44 lb.ft) at 5500 rpm. The power is transmitted to the road by the Front wheel drive (FWD) with a 4 speed Manual gearbox.

Toyota and Hyundai caught out by UK Advertising Agency for mis-informing UK consumers who now have to stop their adverts and correct their websites........

None of us getting any younger. I need a car that checks I am fully alert, think they are talking about them, checks your eyes are open etc. I sometimes need a good slurp of Red Bull type drink. Once it may have been some amphetamines but I think one of these is somewhat illegal. Different in Scotland ?

Nice British made car. You clearly know this car would probably have less range than your e-corsa. What is the logic of this choice over other EVs that do have longer range than the Mini EV ? Nice power though. Got a lot of pickup with its 181 hp motor !

To be fair I find that with nearly all car dealership personnel. Renault Delearship asked me to test drive the new Austral and it started with my question about the powerplant which even the head salesperson did not have right the details. Ever thus.

Tesla pushing the EV technology onwards again with tweak to battery chemistry which should give 10% more range plus all the revisions in the Model 3 and Y. How will non Tesla manufacturers keep even vaguely in touch with Tesla ? I think 80 miles is wrong, at best 80 kms with the combination of 66 kWh up fro 60 kWh but also lighter and a host, about 30 I gather, of other improvement, ie aero, lighter other components etc....... think

I was doing a nidge over 60 mpg on the current tankful, after covering around 200 miles bug M6 was bad with tens of mile of stop start traffic so indicated MPG fell to 54 mpg. I have been averaging about 55 mpg for the last few tankfulls but in the winter I was bang on the stated average of 49 mpg for the Arkana 1.333 litre mild hybrid. The 1.6 Etech owners seem to get upper 50s mpg, some 1.33 litre Arkana mpg have reported only getting around 40 mpg or even less but I suspect they are doing lots of town driving and sounds like they would have been better off spending a couple of extra grand and getting the etech Arkana but then they would have lost the much better acceleration of the turbo Arkana rather than 1.6 litre naturally aspirated Arkana. The new Austral and Rafale should be even better with their 1.2 turbo engines. MPG is where I expected it to be and quite reasonable for quite a large car ie tallish. CO2 is circa 134 gm/km which is not great. Trade in price is holding up so maybe trade in for Rafale next year....

Is this about farting animals ? What does a nitrogen minister do. Nitrogen makes up 80% of our air. There is a problem with farmers allowing chemicals to go in to rivers etc, nitrogen, phosphates etc. Farmers need electric tractors, bailers, harvesters maybe ?

Much more about the fact that VW is not competing in the EV world very well, when measured against TESLA and even SAIC / MG. It must be a dilemma, produce EVs when you lose money on every one so therefore cut back but not fully getting in to the EV "game" probably means oblivion after 2030. They must be preparing to beg the EU for protectionist measures as although Asia and North America is being lost they could at least keep some presence in European, excluding those non-EU countries like Norway and of course Russia where buyers of Audis, BMWs, Mercs etc are now buying Chinese brands in big numbers.

The 41M vehicles, maybe 35M registered cars is one stat, and not even 1M EVs but it is the miles they travel, the energy and fuel they use. Couple of years old now but the article below states EV drivers do more miles than ICE drivers and we know many ICE cars are older cars drivers keep for occasional use and not work horses. Most importantly is the transfer over of van drivers and even truck to EV propulsion as those are the guys and girls doing big miles. As I do around 30k miles per year I thought it important that I have a full EV in my stable and it is doing well over its 6k miles I contracted for, sadly my Hybrid Arkana is probably doing more than twice that but then, I see from the onboard computer that about 20% of those miles are without the accelerator peddle being pressed and therefore mostly in coast mode with the ICE not running. I like to call it "Gravity Assist". https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/electric-vehicles-news/what-range-anxiety-ev-drivers-rack-up-more-miles-than-those-using-tradition/#:~:text=The average EV covers 391,the idea of going green. So it is less about absolute numbers and more about miles travelled. I love to see those lovely older ICE cars and doing a few hundred miles or a couple of thousand is now biggy. It is us high milers doing tens of thousands a year, last mile distribution and us salesmen and women going to EV, even if only a couple or maybe 5 or 10 millions is key and not the other 30M or so. Other part we need to do is to move our hydrocarbon boilers to heat pump tech and that is equally important as to removing ICE vehicles from the road to getting the UK's carbon figure much lower down than it's current trajectory to do our bit for the world and delay hitting the higher temperature point and the consequential weather problems.

What gets me with climate change naysayers is not that they do not admit that is ICE vehicles are accelerating oncoming more violent weather, flooding, sea rise but that they do not choose governments which guard against climate change ie more installing of storm drains etc as it may well be that quarter, half or three quarters or so of climate change and our industrial activity with carbon burning, and methane etc, is accelerating us to horrendous weather future and we all need to get on to government and get them to think befond 5 years and start thinking about the next 5 years. Humans are so bright we can even extract heat from our environment a get energy out of the process at a ratio of 4 to 1 with heat pumps. Whilst the UK falls behind other countries who are surging a head to a time of virtual free electrical energy, which will make their industries much more competitive, we languish. I have a heat pump in my Zoe. Want one in my house, even if just a room sized one. When less oil and gas is used for residential and business heating prices will fall and Western Europe being made to dance by not very nice foreign powers can end. Big Heat pump projects..... 800% efficiency................ %

Yes the charge times quoted are generally the best possible ie done when the battery is in the perfect temperature zone of accepting the highest possible charge rate ie when its temperature is probably in the 20 to 25 C range, just like baby bear's porridge, but this said the differences between maximum and what is received in non perfect conditions is not a massive percentage unless one is unfortunate to suffer a charge gate issue like with some early LEAFs and with the first release Toyota BZ4X,usually more frustrating than ruining ones day if one travels with a bit of time margin as I generally do to deal with unexpected traffic issues that pop up. My ruling premise is charge at home, preferable using the almost free nighttime tariff, hopefully one has picked a car with relatively good range and set of at a relaxed pace, maybe only 60 mph or so, see how the consumptions goes and up the pace if range allows and most importantly just chill when one is driving. Bit of slipstreaming can help and it becomes a game to me to get that miles per kw up over 4 and closer to 5 if possible. It is temperature that is the big enemy of the waning Lithium ion battery tech. Every degree below about 15C takes another percent or two of range. If only we had a place when we could charge our cars in a warm environment and then drive it out of that place, in to the colder environment where it could use the cooler air outside to keep in the optimum temp range for the car systems and even occupants of the car. It could help give is gargantuan range and we could call it a gar-range or perhaps "garage" for sort. Of course word comes from the French Garer, meaning to shelter. One survey, probably US, said 71% of families use the garage as primary access to the house, wow. Mine is full of motorbikes, tyres and other flotsam. My take on lecky cars is to absorb knowledge about EVs like the jellyfish does with air and food. I have found I need a petrol powered hybrid as I do not alway know I can get a charge if I have to do 200 miles plus in a day but I keep trying to plan it that I could use the EV instead of the hybrid. Hotel I stayed at last week, in Yeovil, just installed EV charge. With nearly 2,000 charges a month being installed across UK we will soon see petrol station closures as more of them just do not have the business to stay open. It is inevitable and happening fast.