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There was a fault with the vehicle. The range issues was part of the fault. This claim cannot be viewed as precedence of winning law suites for claiming that most EV can't do WLTP rated range. Just as ombudsman ruling for faulty diesel engine cannot be used as precedence for claiming not reaching MPG figures. I think you are fully aware of why MPG figures are unattainable in normal driving, why no one in their sane mind would expect to win a class action lawsuit for ICE MPG claims . But you still choose to bang the drum on EV range claim and seed the lawsuit doubt and range uncertainty. That is the definition of FUD. Option of ICE car is not removed for next 10+ years. If anything, I don't think that's soon enough. I'm sure we can agree to disagree on this. The reason for banning ICE has everything to do with climate change, where speed of adoption is of essence. Not comparable to adoption of ICE over horses, where it is pushed by both capitalism and convenience.

You've singled out EV. I've not mentioned diesel. If you have a chip on your shoulder, go ask this question to relevant people.

Then why single out EV for a class action lawsuit on its efficiency/range claims based on same official test cycles? We all know the number is for comparison sake, not to be used in real life.

Look hard enough and people would have achieved the quoted in ideal conditions: https://ev-database.org/car/1619/Tesla-Model-Y-Long-Range-Dual-Motor 169 Wh/km * 1.6 km/mi = 270 Wh/mi. 138 * 1.6 = 221 Wh/Mi (I'm not sure which figure to take, there's 2 figures and 2 different tests) RSEV video shows 237 Wh/mi trip average. Right in the middle of the 2 figures. It includes using energy to pre-condition for supercharging, hence lower "since charge" than trip average. For 80% vs lifetime, it's part of a car that is designed to be used. Given the opportunity it is best practice to charge NCM type to 80% and LFP type to 100%. Only thing that one must avoid is storing the battery at 0% or 100% long term, for example parked up for months. Why does the phone battery in the drawer-of-junk die? It's usually because it has been left unattended at 0% for too long. But if you need 100% just go ahead and charge to 100%. My Nissan Leaf (NCM cells) for example, had periods where I charged to 100% every day for commuting, periods where it only gets charged to 80% every other day, periods where it is charged to 100% every other day. The charge level only gets reduces if it doesn't inconvenient usage.

There's a fault with the car. From the article: By same logic, MPG figure should also be put into a similar class action lawsuit?

The temporary-ness is completely open to interpretation. Whether you believe the hospital's official statement or your personal view based on a photo of a stuck-on sign.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c90zjne2v0jo "temporarily restricted the parking of electric vehicles in one of our smaller car parks while we upgrade its fire sprinkler system." I think this is the correct procedure: identify an emerging risk, do risk assessment, do necessary upgrades, everyone get on with their lives. I expect this will only be a very temporary problem.

I Emailed them twice about it, nothing. I phoned them on Friday and was promised the note call handler send to admin team will be looked at by end of next week. 🤞

That's brilliant deal. 2018 used 40 kWh cars are still asking £9k. 2022 used cars are asking over 13k. Although those are Tekna trim but N-connecta contains everything necessary. During the 2023 price crash, they were asking £19-20k for similar pre-reg almost new cars. The flaming red colour is default no-cost colour option. This happens to be the one my wife would prefer, over the paid darker red option. If I wasn't paying for new kitchen this year, I'd have asked you for details, driven across the country to buy one! As you are aware of the outdated Chademo rapid charging socket. It's absolutely no problem as long as you are 99% charging at home or at destination using slower 7 kW AC. But on the other hand, Leaf Chademo also the only one currently do V2G or V2H. Newer V2H via CCS is coming from VAG cars, but it's probably 2-5 years before it becomes available to buy. So to a small group of people, such as myself, it holds tremendous value. https://www.cleanenergyreviews.info/blog/bidirectional-ev-charging-v2g-v2h-v2l edit: updated pricing, looks like the recent end of UK production and pre-reg discounts have really hit used prices. They were £10k and £15k respectively.

Exchanging DM now. Not sure why you'd want such thing. I kept the phone cables in the close-able cubby at very front. Used the 2 cup holders for.... cups. edit: The lot is getting posted to hhcd80.

EV police vehicle (USA) walkthrough of modifications:

From my quick reading of this, I'm not seeing any issue/roadblock for local residents to buy EV and install charge points in this paper. Please can you point out where does it actually say that there isn't sufficient power for existing residents to adopt EV? The document appears to be saying there is capacity constraints for new developments. What is being done and when.

That "thing" is coming to do an Europe tour from this weekend: https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/cyber-odyssey I'm going to check it out on Sunday.

I sold my Mk3 in 2022, found these in the attic recently. I honestly can’t see the smart phone holder being useful because it wouldn’t even fit my iPhone mini. Anyone actually used it? The navigation SD card holder is only a box. SD card went with the car. Anyone want it for collection? it’s going into the bin (and recycling) soon.

I've ran the Leaf down to 2% and no not seen its tortoise mode. They don't usually come this early, need to be beyond 0% for good batteries. They should only come before 0% if battery balance is bad. The Norway Bjorn EV youtube channel have done a lot of testing for running cars below 0%. Good EV's should drive normally all the way to 0%, with clearly displayed linear power reduction after that.

Nice Yes, my source had a miscount. Fort William has been open for a while, I saw it open when I was route planning a few weeks ago. Aberdeen opening up is new. Their price has also dropped slightly (compared to a few weeks ago). Charging membership cost has also dropped, now £9. But on the other hand, they just laid off whole supercharger team, 500 people. On the bright side, one of higher up person is now working at Ionity. So hopefully some of those 500 people will bring knowledge to other companies. https://www.speakev.com/threads/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team.184644/

More Tesla SuC open to all, out of around 140 in total: https://www.speakev.com/threads/first-tesla-v4-superchargers-in-uk.179536/page-19#post-3601840 As far as I can tell, Tesla have opened up the following twenty-two V2 / V3 sites today: Norwich Wyboston London - North Greenwich Dartford Dartford (Service Centre) Sevenoaks Flimwell London - Gatwick Portsmouth Amesbury Bristol - Cribbs Causeway Camborne Exeter - Darts Farm Reading - Katesgrove Reading Oxford - Redbridge Nottingham (Service Centre) Nottingham - Victoria Centre Derby Leeds - Whitehouse Street Aberdeen (Service Centre) Perth In summary there are currently 64 open-to-non-Tesla sites now in the UK. Made up of 49 V2/V3 sites (20 of those opened today) and 15 of V4 sites.

I had been billed £12 again for the CPS RFID card that was sent and billed with old Direct Debit method in March. Asked why when I received the invoice, no response. DD charged yesterday and sent Email again yesterday asking for refund. This is very poor.

Unfortunately a lot of people still keeps on parroting that EV's are heavy.

Keep watching channels like Mr Porterfield or Kate and James. The Youtube algorithm works in not so mysteries ways, not too different to Daily Fail.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/daily-mail-admits-making-up-story-about-electric-vehicles-causing-potholes/ Surprise, surprise, public opinion is being manipulated.

The update worry is the reason I haven't fitted "nice to have" things like auto opening and closing frunk. I do have "S3XY" buttons (https://enhauto.com/) because some things still need a quick button press (also enables more features, like OBD11 I had with VAG). That gets just as often firmware upgrades as the car itself, it keeps pace with OEM changes. Charge limiter. See "Charge Settings" here: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-BEE08D47-0CE0-4BDD-83F2-9854FB3D578F.html I always automatically plug in, takes less than 1s. Home Assistant automatically sets it to 50%. If I need the car next day, I would tweak limiter to try to arrive home at 40-45%, lots of spare range for unplanned errants. So in the morning, the car always have at least 100 miles of range in any weather. Never stress the battery far from the ~50% range and perfectly stores the battery for some days I don't use the car. For example, I charged to 70% last night for visit Hampton Court Palace gardens (free weekend). It was either 20 odd miles N Circular or 40+ miles via M25. Arrived home with 54% because drove via shorter route, plugged it in as habit, nothing will happen tonight but I can tweak charge limiter later in bed if needed. For simplicity, you can set car to always charge to 75%. Every day you know you have ~200 miles in the morning. Then up the limit if plan to travel more than 100 miles. Really simple, zero range anxiety, zero brain power required. With Leaf. It doesn't have as good charge limiter. So instead of charging 80% to 100%, I had to do some forward planning and as you pointed out, not good to automatically plug in every day. But now with V2H, evening uses up 30-40% of the battery. With day time use, can simply charge to 100% every day.

Wow, 600 kW regen. This one is funny: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/electric-car-vehicle-range-anxiety-b2535524.html snippets: No sh** Sherlock! I've been saying this for years.

Windows 10 and 11 updates have been problem and stress free for me for many years. It updates when I shutdown or overnight, zero problems. Same with my MY, it notifies me via the app that update is available and plans to install overnight. I have the option to not install or install immediately. Update takes ~30min to install, I usually set it to install when I know I don't need the car for the next hour. I've read a story on Reddit someone had wrong drivetrain software applied (error about wrong drivetrain, won't drive), sorted within 2 hour of raising the issue with Tesla, via another OTA update. Other than that, I've not heard or experienced any issue with the update. The reason there's excitement with Tesla updates because it's seamless and actually add meaningful features. Upcoming update is an UI update to bring it in line with the triangle truck: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1988/inside-teslas-new-v12-user-interface A feature wasn't sold and advertised was added over 1.5 year after I got the car: matrix headlights: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1902/tesla-to-add-support-for-matrix-headlights-for-existing-vehicles-in-upcoming-software-update One of those safety improvements: https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/upcoming-features/id/1644/tesla-updates-hazard-lights-frequency-to-improve-safety-in-software-update I believe other companies are doing similar, VW v3 software added lots of necessary EV features. On top of all that, the "Tesla vision" based adaptive cruise and lane centering (aka. Autopilot) function continues to improve. It used to go wide if a bend exceed max EU allowable steering angle. Then there was a period it would harshly brake when going wide to bring itself back in. Now it slows down at the bend, able to navigate some without intervention and staying within regulation. It used do phantom braking every time going under a particular bridge on a dual carriage way, I've not had any unexplainable phantom braking for many months. All that is on v11. Americans are getting full AI, zero hand written code v12 and reports say "full self driving" upgrade feature drives almost human-like.

For Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/connectivity No ongoing cost for standard connectivity for first 8 years, this is basic map and live traffic based nav routing. (currently free for everyone) Premium connectivity, benefits see link, is £10 per month. I plan to buy it for 1 month for my road trip to Skye. Software and map OTA updates are downloaded whilst connected to Wi-Fi. Most premium features usable via Wifi (including via phone hotspot) Without any connectivity, cars are still drivable, will also receive software and map updates via Wi-Fi, and bluetooth phone key will still work. Reading the link. It seems I made the cut for lifetime free standard connectivity. For Nissan, as we've seen previously, support ended for 2016 and earlier cars with "CarWings" 😡. 2016-2020 have free connectivity similar to CarWings, ends whenever Nissan decides it's no longer worth it. 2020 or later cars have a subscription cost after first 3 years for different optional service packages (remote control, map update, live traffic) https://www.speakev.com/threads/nissan-connect-pricing-post-free-3-year-complimentary-period.175585/