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New government grant for "cross pavement" charging solutions: https://www.find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/electric-vehicle-chargepoint-grant-for-households-with-on-street-parking-1#apply This is calculation done by a SpeakEV forumer: https://www.kerbocharge.com/ Kerbocharge say £999 for the pavement groove plus £900 for EVSE installation. They suggest a payback time around 16months using cheap off peak IOG or similar compared to prices of public charging. If I assume 7.5p v 31p then looks about right that would equate to saving 23-25p/kWh and 6000ish miles a year at 3miles/kWh. A £350 grant probably brings the payback down close to a year.

"* Target Figures - The vehicle specifications detailed on this page are target specifications based on simulations. " Amazing if they can achieve it. It's got dedicated motor for each wheel. I was searching for a slightly cheating fast accelerating EV that has a fan creating vacuum under the car for more traction.... Came across this: https://www.gridserve.com/2024/02/12/the-fastest-accelerating-electric-cars-in-2023-to-get-the-pulse-racing/ The fastest trim of the pictured fat blob can do 0-60 in under 3 seconds.

That's a....... flashy colour. There is a much better saloon coming soon: https://www.lotuscars.com/en-US/emeya And a hypercar in the works: https://www.lotuscars.com/en-US/evija All BEV of course.

You've been reading about them 😅 Any Chademo rapid charging cars will definitely be the Betamax of EV in Europe, despite it was more feature-rich than CCS for many of its early years. Rapid charging speed might be another one. 800v chargers will be common place in the future. Not able to take advantage of that and be current limited would not be ideal. For example, 400v cars can only charge at 175 kW on Ionity 350 kW chargers because the headline speed is at 800v. But day-to-day usage, charged at destination AC charge points, there is no such thing as obsolete with any EV's. It will always able to accept 240v AC as long as on-board charger works. This link has the list of required physical controls: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-back-buttons-to-get-good-safety-scores-in-europe/ "Now, Euro NCAP is not insisting on everything being its own button or switch. But the organization wants to see physical controls for turn signals, hazard lights, windshield wipers, the horn, and any SOS features, like the European Union's eCall feature." Apart from SOS function, everything has physical controls in both Tesla's older design and new Model 3. Of course, people have different definition of physical control. Are easy to find by feel haptic feedback touch "buttons", physical buttons? What level of wiper control is considered necessary, activation of wiper or right down to tuning its speed? There's still time for them to decide on their rating criteria. But I'm not seeing stuff that people often complain about for Tesla:, climate controls, mirror controls, etc.

How do you find the foldable e-bike? Would you choose this over getting a proper bike + carrier for the car? For leisure riding on a hybrid bike for example.

I remember those 2017 articles from car magazine saying how much Leaf/Zoe have depreciated. But in reality they haven't taken into account of government grant, always compared against sticker price.

Nice, "unveil 2025". Seem to have V2L as well: TBH, vehicle discharge capability and battery spec is all I care about these days. A car is a car, they will all drive the same.

Wow, council chargers at for-profit organisation prices. I'm just going to stick with Tesla superchargers throughout my journey except for in Skye.

Future of car mods?

Unfortunate typo. BIG country. Doesn't get the sense from maps, but it's huge when looking at driving distances.

Thanks, first day big driving up is a Friday, will start mid afternoon and finish around midnight. We'll be driving up M6 and M74 to ensure autopilot can easily handle it and do all the heavy lifting. I have driven up to Scotland about 12 years ago, up from A1M. The roads near Scottish boarder are single carriage ways. It was raining and lorries speed past really close. I don't want to tackle that again late at night. I see near Glasgow/Edinburgh there's a LOT of chargers, many options to choose from. Similarly, the drive up/down has lots of options, we plan to stop every ~2 hours anyway. The only bit of charging I'm worried is reliance on Fort William superchargers and the 4 CPS rapids on Isle of Skye. Do all CPS have 50 min max charge time? Also, Scotland is a bit country!

My Isle of Skye rough plan done. Chargepoint scotland RFID card arrived. No problem If able to charge overnight staying somewhere near Portree. Total about 450 miles driving away from Fort William superchargers. So need under 200 miles of range added whilst on the isle. London – Glasglow Glasglow – (32mi) Luss village – (58mi) Glencoe valley – (35mi) Glenfinnan viaduct – (17mi) Fort William (6 Tesla superchargers) <~150 miles total> Fort William – (96mi) A87 Highland Cows viewpoint – (108mi) Portree (2 CPS charging) <~204 miles to Portree> Portree – (7mi) Old Man of Storr – (8mi) Kilt Rock – (13mi) Fairy Glen (1 CPS charging at Uig Pier) – (17mi) Portree <~45 miles total> Portree – (34mi) Dunvegan Castle (1 CPS charging at Dunvegan) – (12mi) Neist Point Lighthouse – (33mi) Portree <~80 miles total> Portree – (43mi) Eilean Donan Castle – (65mi) Fort William (6 Tesla superchargers) – (100mi) Stirling <~210 miles total> Stirling – (37mi) Edinburgh Edinburgh - London Now finding accommodation on the isle.....

I remembered that you wanted to see some data after a few years. Hopefully that was helpful in updating your view of EV's. Why do you consider this a trollling behaviour when I have fresh data to share?

This video explains how brake works in most electric and vast majority of hybrid vehicles, well, specifically how this popular Bosch electric brake booster works. So in the event of a computer failure or freeze, unlike ICE powered vacuum assist booster, the electronic brake booster will still always work. Only when 12v completely disappears (0v) this booster stops working.

I'd happily buy Skoda again if the ID2-sized car can do V2H replacing our Leaf. I'm eagerly looking for more details on V2G/V2H for Renault 5 EV. There's often deals if taking finance. You can always pay off the finance product within certain days or something about certain amount has been paid. I think I paid around £200 in interest for the Leaf PCP, once we decided to keep it, we paid off rest and ended it early. Got 2 free servicing out of it. Personally, I don't think we will ever see 2022 situation in the near future. Where I could have turned around and sold a few weeks old Model Y for tidy £10k profit. The ZEV mandate is too strict and there's still a lot of hold-outs. EV prices will only fall due to 3 factors colliding: - manufacturers trying to induce demand (price reduction) to hit the mandate, - more and more perfectly good second hand EV on the market - shrinking demand as people who can easily adopt EV got one Having said that, older used EV price isn't falling in price right now, to my frustration. Who is buying 2018 6 years old Leaf 40 for 11-12k, when almost new less than 20 miles forecourt 73 reg Leaf 40 can be had for £19k? https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202402216812242

That's awesome, you shouldn't see degradation because it would all be in the buffers. Yes, I seem to recall they were Model S 75D that are actually software limited 90 packs. Can even pay for an unlock. Self-discharge is usually not an issue for Li-on batteries. I have an Android smart phone in the Leaf for reading Leafspy, I charge that up to 60%, turn it back on a few weeks later still 60%. I get really old NiCd are a problem, every time I want to use my many-years old drill, it needs to be charged. "Vampire drain" is a thing for Teslas and Corsa it seems, but that is the in-car computer using the battery to do stuff. I think the thing to watch out for as cells age is internal resistance. This shouldn't affect cells in open circuit. This will affect maximum charging speed, in theory will generate more heat. Should also affect max discharge (acceleration). Though I don't believe slow AC charging will take more energy, because Tesla in-vehicle service mode uses AC charging to measure degradation. (dumps remaining as heat, charge 0 to 100% measure charged energy). At 7.5p/kWh and solar, efficiency isn't top of my list of concerns. In fact, using V2H keeps electronics in the Leaf awake, that uses around 200w by my calculation. It's very far from ideal and quite wasteful compared to a proper home battery solution. But as you say, free solar. Also keeps 12v health by floating it at 12.8v all the time. I'm sure future cars will improve with more and more V2G/V2H adoption.

Apparently some guy with same name, or same guy, tried to sell this car back in Sep 2023: https://www.ipaceforums.co.uk/threads/oh-dear…-ev-incident-on-m62.7937/page-5#post-102538 "Working theory is that he was going to either lose money or couldn't get out of the finance so tried to argue the car was faulty and after the first time it failed he tried again."

It was left for 3 weeks not touched in Dec 2018 as we went away for Xmas. Came back exactly same %. Last December, as we have V2H, it was left plugged in powering the house and recharging overnight. So can't comment. Generally haven't noticed any self discharge. I think the only car that has vampire drain is Tesla's, where they regularly wake up HV battery to report to the mothership. Everything in Nissan Leaf and other early EV is designed around ICE mentality, if I don't "start" the car, HV battery would not be "started"/connected. Some cars have HUGE built-in buffers. Audi's and Ioniq are known to have this. 6 years old Ioniq 28 are still reading 100% SoC.

From EV forum, people say the M62 incident IPace driver has been arrested by police for dangerous driving. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13192851/Police-arrest-Jaguar-Pace-driver-31-suspicion-dangerous-driving-control-car-rammed-road-officers-went-rogue-speeds-120mph.html Strangely I can't find any other sources, but Daily Mail has rarely been pro-EV so I can't see there being an agenda. But then, police arrest shouldn't be exclusive news reporting.

……. Is ULEZ some kind of trigger word? ULEZ = cars that doesn’t meet emission standards pay ZEZ = cars that doesn’t meet zero emission standards pay So Oxford ZEZ is named correctly. Cars that are not ZEV need to pay.

How about tallest production car? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_Wake Height: 1,835 mm (72.2 in) You know what could improve traffic flow and get more cars on the road? Automounts vehicles. Only reason they don't work is because of other meatbags on the road. But the idea of banning all cars and only allow robo-taxies will probably ruffle more feathers.

Sorry, lost me here. The change is optional for the crowd you are talking about for at least 15 years. By then with improved infrastructure, the "progress" solution is better in every single way. You are judging EV by today's infrastructure, which I admit is lacklustre for those without home charging.

Gone down slightly as usage pattern changed. Before COVID, it was commuter car, most drives were 29 miles, 40min. Now it's a school run car, most drives are 3 miles, 10min. Before, lifetime average was averaging just over 4 mi/kWh over the 2-3 years. Now lifetime average is 3.89 mi/kWh. I suspect a longer time commute at city road speeds would see better economy figure during commute and bigger difference with usage pattern change. Nissan stops telemetrics and remote control next month. I will no longer get comparable data. So excellent question, now is a good time to gather info.

Would be good if you stop repeating FUD. It is the peak power demands that are the problem for the grid. But remember most EV's are not charged during high demands. Most EV charge up during lowest demands just like storage heaters. It is probable high EV adoption would lead to lower standing charge as there would be less variations in demand curves, less grid infrastructure spend less time wait to be used. More public charging infrastructure need time-of-use tariff to reflect the wholesale pricing variations that also reflects the demand variations. Here is from the horse's mouth: https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero-stories/can-grid-cope-extra-demand-electric-cars

Related article: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240222-used-electric-vehicle-market-ev-prices The used electric vehicle market could tempt EV-curious drivers As the used EV market emerges, proponents are hopeful the first adopters will serve as pioneers who can teach hesitant consumers that a pre-owned electric vehicle is a worthwhile investment – and a really good deal.