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Very nice! Great to see slower AC chargers there so everyone can get a charge and PHEV won't have excuse to block the rapids.

I'm a long time subscriber to his channel. He's very far from a Tesla fanboy. The issue he speaks of is very real and it's a problem for all non-Tesla's on the road today: the rapid charging infrastructure. End of last year, I had to sign up to Polar/Pulse instant to charge because the charger contactless wouldn't go through. Paid first £5. A few weeks ago, I topped up another £5 to use a different Polar/Pulse charger, because need balance more than £5 to start charge. But the charger would not start remotely through the app, had to use contactless. This kind of teething problems is really annoying and really deters mass adoption of EV's. Over 3 years of EV ownership and I still feel anxious when driving to a public charger, things haven't really improved. It's just this video is too drawn out on the single issue...... He's not big on driver assist. I think Autopilot on his Tesla isn't working, he mentioned it in passing in his winter roadtrip consumption video.

Can mild hybrid count as EV's? I personally don't think so. 100% of its energy still comes from fossil fuel. It's one of the additional tools (like force induction turbo) to make ICE slightly more efficient. It just happens to feature a tiny electric powertrain.

Maths vs clickbaiting headlines. Which one to believe......

Perhaps time to change publication? Mass media feeds on headlines. The more shock value it's got the better. The headlines are designed to provoke emotion from potential readers so people read it. Mass media isn't interested in informing the public on through unbiased wording, they are only interested in selling paper/ads based on click counts. Here are a few better sources of publication, although these doesn't directly address your concerns with cost: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/effect-fuel-ethanol-content-exhaust-emissions-flexible-fuel-vehicle https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032104000784 But they do show a clear benefit to greenhouse emissions, which is important to all of us and should be a major factor in one's decisions for their energy consumption.

Ah, okay. Worthless traditional journalist strikes again. Autocar article was wrong and it's still wrong now. Fully Charged video was very clear on the difference. It would be interesting to see how fast it charges on 400V chargers currently available. I'd also be interested to see how they are doing the 800V to 400V conversion. But for its bigger battery size of 70+ kWh with less than 300 miles of range, I fear it has done a Taycan in efficiency when moving to 800V. Kona 64kWh have range of 300 miles.

Very nice! 800V system and 20min charging. Though I'd thought 72 kWh battery should have given over 300 miles of range. The vehicle to grid system is interesting. Have CCS now enabled that feature? Last time I checked, a few years ago, only Chademo supports it. Price of just £45k for top of the range model is excellent. A shot across the bow of (expected) £50k Model Y long range, which is considerably dated due to not having 800V and V2G.

To be honest, because rapid charging miles will be so few for my use-case (before Covid, once a month to add up to 80 miles return (calc based on m3 SR) and once or twice a year longer road trips), I don't mind paying premium to receive good service. Daily charging at 2p/mile more than outweighs 36p/mile when travelling. Which means up to £1 per kWh to charge at my car's maximum speed (#1), to have the wider easy access space available (#2) when I arrive and the chargers guaranteed working (#3). Refreshments and facility within safe walking distance (#4). I will be travelling with young family, reliability + convenience is key. Ionity pricing is indeed too expensive for their service, it doesn't satisfy #3 and #4 with just 4 chargers at strange locations. The MK Coachway charging hub is just one example I've been, toilet needs to pay fee and it's is across a large car park. BP Pulse 150kW are being installed at motorway petrol stations, you'd have to walk across the petrol station forecourt and sometimes across lorry parking to get to services. Not safe with young children. Gridserve is brilliant, satisfies all my needs. We definitely need more of those. Of course, when I'm travelling alone and not under time pressure, I'd seek out cheapest way to get the most miles. I'm a penny pincher after all. If it means queuing or using slower chargers, then so be it. So I think the key is to have multiple layers of options if we are realistic that Gridserve can't cover whole UK. Starting at cheapest 50kW at back of the car park and gets more expensive as speed increases and its distance to refreshment + facility decreases.

TLDR: just watch 22:41. "Rapid charging is always a worry, 8-10 petrol pumps, only 1 electric charging station. So if you rock up and already a car plugged in, 1 hr (IMO that's shockingly slow rapid charging) stop becomes 2 hours." As I kept saying since 2018, we need better rapid charging infrastructure, The rapid charging network CapEx funded mostly by car manufacturers, if they really want to sell those EV's, they need to put in the investment. Ionity is a great collaboration, but why are they only installing 4 stalls at each location? That level of infrastructure is okay back in 2018, it's not enough going forward. Surely, with 7 massive and well established (aka flush with cash) car brands behind it, they should have more resource to build more than Tesla are managing......

I watched that video, I'm a subscriber to his channel. Interesting that Tesla routing is prioritising less stops over quicker route. ABRP is the way to go it seems. The newer 2021 octovalve heatpump Model 3 should be even more efficient.

First reaction? I hate slideshow style websites....... Second reaction? Where's e-Niro? It's more practical than Kona but with similar range and very tiny price increase, making it a better car. I'd personally swap places for 11th Zoe and 3rd Honda E, due to Zoe's popularity. I'd also thought ID3 would be higher on the list, perhaps swap it with Polestar 2. Taycan, Honda E, Polestar 2. 3 out of the top 4 are more like expensive toys (inefficient or short range, more expensive than ICE cars due to onboard toys) rather than practical runabouts. Cynic in me thinks there is a narrative from Top Gear......

PHEV charging 3.7kW on a 50kW rapid charger? So typical PHEV drivers...... The car isn't rapid charging capable so shouldn't be using that rapid charger! Lucky for you the charger can charge AC and DC at the same time and the cable just about reaches.

Is that BMW a converted EV? Downside of EV's, no energy being wasted 90% of the time to clear snow off the bonnet 10% of the time.

It's the perfect control of wheel that makes it so good. As long as there's a tiny bit of grip, the EV can crawl by moving the wheel VERY VERY slowly. No electronics or clutch messing up the grip, your input is directly translated to the motor which is always connected to the wheel. I have Crossclimate on my Skoda diesel because I was stuck in snow in 2017/18 winter. Although different location, the Leaf in budget summer tyres were able to slowly drive up slopes other cars cannot. Then there's idling. TeslaBjorn recently did a video showing Model 3 can maintain comfortable temperature in the car for almost 70 hours at -3c. If the car uses 0.7/hr in fuel, the Skoda Octavia can only idle 64 hours with 45 litre of fuel. Also got to remember with EV, you can turn off the car and turn back on when needing heat, whereas if you do it with ICE cars, you need to wait for engine to warm up, wasting fuel.

Great video. There's so much being covered, it can serve as a great video for everyone to view before start posting outdated fears with EV adoption. In particular (bold, underlined): Timestamps: 0:00 Makes (EV leasing) sense 2:16 Can't afford an EV! 2:53 Benefit in kind explained 4:16 EV taxation 5:19 Salary sacrifice 6:33 Energy rates 7:13 Tires & screen wash 8:07 Individual leasing 9:25 Risk limitation (why EV leasing was expensive initially but now cheaper) 11:42 Don't buy new (what to do before whining about new car prices) 12:56 Increase the lease 14:10 EV 2nd hand market 14:49 Battery re-use 15:59 Battery degradation 16:45 EV future 17:33 EV road tax 19:31 Road usage 20:25 Company charging (how to move from company fuel cards) 22:25 Learnt stuff?

Just OTA update and stop writing to flash memory that will wear out? Seems like a rather stupid decision to repeatedly write to irreplaceable flash memory.

Don't rely on the range guess-o-meter. It's totally useless, especially in winter and hilly places. It's the source of "range anxiety" because the car doesn't know your route. Set an expected arrival percentage in your mind, based on your existing experiences, and judge from there.

Strange? What's strange about it?

One can only hope..... I believe Welcome Break boss drives a Tesla and have not renewed their exclusivity contract with Ecotricity. Hence Tesla chargers at their services. But I've read Moto have renewed the exclusivity contract some time ago. Luckily petrol stations at major trunk road services seems to be installing their chargers (BP bought Chargemaster, Shell working with New Motion, etc) But I personally won't feel safe using petrol station chargers and walk my toddler across the petrol station forecourt to get to service station for food. The chargers should be where the cars park.

The current problem with EV charging is that the good fast chargers are not on existing trunk road service stations. Ecotricity Electric Highway was funded by Nissan-Renault back in 2014-ish time, it sports slow 50kW chargers for Chademo (leaf) and type 2 (Zoe). Later CCS was added to support other cars but it's known to be buggy. Ecotricity seems to have some sort of exclusivity agreement. So we don't see any other more reliable providers at these critical locations.

This is the bit I really dislike. Manufacturers see EV as an easy target to upsell people into less efficient crossovers or SUV's. I guess my point is, we, as consumers, shouldn't be focused on the mileage figure (like camera megapixels or computer CPU GHz). End of the day it's not as important as efficiency. Focusing on this single range figure pushes for undesirable design choices, the worst of which is like putting 90 kWh battery to achieve range less than 250 miles (Jag IPace), in comparison Model Y is said to achieve 230 miles with just 55 kWh battery. The number one focus should always be on efficiency, getting more range out of smaller battery. It's not just weight of the car. With the push for longer range EV, I fear we end up everyone driving with 150 kWh battery cars for 30 daily miles. Where production of the car batteries generate more greenhouse gases than if we had stuck with petrol-hybrid. Wanting more range is understandable, but it needs to come from efficiency gains, not from having ever bigger batteries. (unless the larger battery can be made with less material than early EV's) This is the other reason I really like idea of range-extended serial hybrid (i3 REx, Ampera). It allows people to be on electric vast majority of the time with just enough battery size, also doesn't drive well if fuelled purely from fossil fuel, and don't need to be at mercy of the infrastructure for longer trips.

Totally agree with first part. Need to be a new platform that was never intended to house ICE. Not sure about second part. I still think standard range Tesla is the best of both world. Not excessive amount of battery, access to good charging network is more important. End of the day, extra range from daily needs is just wasted manufacturing emissions to produce that bigger battery. I think any range increase over 300 miles need to be strictly as result of efficiency improvement (both vehicle and production), any range increase should not result in more CO2 emissions.

Yep, I also took this as que to replace my 12v. No other symptoms what so ever. Changed at around 6.5 years. I expect it can do another year or so without S&S but it could struggle to start the car on morning of a cold snap when I need it the most. Much better to have early warning with this S&S symptom. Thanks to the early warning symptom, I got slightly higher spec Varta AGM for just over £110, fitted it myself. It pays to have the luxury to plan for purchases and wait for deals. I guess moral of my story, don't disable S&S. It not only saves fuel (thus money), reduces harmful emissions, it also gives early warning of possible weakening 12v battery.

I'd get it done at cheapest place, as long as all the required work is carried out. No point paying for a flashy lounge or wage of a sharply dressed sales rep who is there to upsell you at every opportunity. My car's last major service was done at VeeW Bristol a few months ago. MOT, major service & inspection, replaced engine oil + filter, air filter and diesel fuel filter. All for £240.70. Not included was pollen filter and brake fluid change, I DIY'd them as they were easy, not messy and transferable skills to DIY EV servicing.

PHEV need to be plugged in to gain the benefits, otherwise it's worse than Toyota hybirds from 1999 due to extra weight of battery. 20 years, very little progress from the legacy car industry. (with Skoda Superb PHEV) To be honest, with the requirement to plug in everyday to get any reasonable economy....... I personally think it makes more sense just get a pure EV.