Monkhai

It happens with the front assist sensor on the octy too. When I stopped at a service station I found the front of the car covered in a few mm of snow, but once I brushed it all off everything was just fine again.

That’d be a great second car

No 70+kW battery only the 58 😞

To be fair my battery just got replaced. Even with fairly regular smart charger sessions it wasn’t turning a cold car over too well. Add the battery drain from the camera and it’s toast. New battery seems to have no issues as long as it’s got a long-ish journey or a charge every 6-8 weeks

Same can be said for car parks without electric charging? The electric chargers and electric are paid for by those using them. They charge a fee to plug in and a fee per kWh. Oh and we probably all pay in tax, but save in tax spent on healthcare. Don’t forget all the nasty effects on the brain and cancer that have a possible link to things in fuel.

I’d say: <7kW unlimited and have plenty 22kW chargers are 4 hours (a typical day out) 43AC/50kW DC chargers are 90-120 minutes 100kW are 60-70 minutes 125/150kW are 45 minutes 200+ are 30 minutes. Basically long enough to fill a car with a typical long range battery from nearly empty to 80%. However I’d also allow a 15 minute grace period when the car hits 80% then start charging idle charges. That way there is an incentive to get the car off the rapid DC. Perhaps some car parks could offer a move from DC to a 7kW AC to get from 80-100% gets you free power if you’ve paid for the DC and moved the car. I have to say though I would probably see a use for say 6-12 bays sharing 2x22kW supplies which can configure to 2x22/4x11kW / 6x7 /12x3.5 and any viable mixes. That would allow faster charges and more charging points.

If it handles well I’ll have one, because the id3 was horrific on our test drive but otherwise decent range/price in the LR version

Yes, that was the 8p/30 p tarrif I was talking about, between 7.5 and 8.5p depending on 4/5 hours. However our neighbour got an EV and they won't take him, saying they are not accepting new customers (Which I understnad). To be honest, I think they need to drop the VAT to 5% on all the green heating/generation products for say a 5 year period, then after the 5 years start raising the price on gas. They could allow green energy to come in for a 5% VAT charge but fossile fuel generated electric gets 20%. A combination of market forces and government policy nudging people in the right way. As an example, I can't have a ground source heat pump and air source is too noisy due to proximity of neighbours. So we have a river/canal near to the house, but we can't use water source due to the abstraction/discharge licences. So a closed loop water source isn't an option as planning and construction costs would mean about 30k. Even if they came in on budget, the house would need major upgrades to underfloor heating systems to make it run or at the very least large oversized radiators. The electric bills go up (by more than the saving on gas) and I have to pay for the pump, then spend anpother 20-30k upgrading the (less than 10 year old) house. Basically I can see why people don't want to. We're waiting to hear if it's single or three phase, then going to spend money on solar, immersion controller and possibly a battery. Once that substantial investment is made, then we have an option to look at using electric more freely. I kind of guess my point is that yes it's broken. There are no grants or tax rebates on solar or heat pumps and really on moving away to electric cars. Electric cars are ideal for low mileage drivers, but the high entry costs mean that for these people you might as well buy a petrol car and wait a few year. If this goes on ad-infinitum, then we're all in trouble.

Right and I meant screenwash not coolant, so my error. However you used to be able to buy (admittedly for frozen north american market) a heater wrap, and tracer wires pipes which when combined with the heated jets allowed things to work at -20*C and beyond. Not saying it's perfect, but you'd hope EV manufacturers would thing of this. That or put a heater coil inside the tank so that the heat pump can dump heat in there if needed.

Bulb almost went pop and if they had you'd have been singing from a very different sheet. As has been pointed out, smart meters not available/working and having to be put in dumb mode so it doesn't turn off supply. Not being with a heavily discounted supplier and the one you are with offering ok, but not great rates. People are not taking on new customers for these tarrifs from other suppliers as they don't want the expense. Just like heat pumps for heating, sure the pump isn't too expensive (with a grant), but the extra investment needed to make it work efficiently (so cheaper than gas - even at todays rates) requires an additional investment. Fundamentally the tech is there, but it's too expensive and the government wants individuals to pay for it themselves, whilst talking green taxes up the wazoo. Spend some road tax (I know it's not that any more) investing in chargers, grants for home chargers etc. Look at EV and perhaps create the zero tax band for only EV with a certain efficiency per kWh, a low tax band for those that are efficient but heavy and a higher band for those that weigh over 2 tonne / are not efficient.

This... The Octopus tarrif for EV is now 7.5p/30p when I looked and no providers will take customers that are not aready with them. That is the problem for "cheap" charging.

They mostly do hybrids (particularly those that get used as taxi), but they said they are verified by Nissan and I have no reason to doubt them. They know VW are not there yet on electric and that electric cars need less servicing. As such they know they have to diversify to survive.

Wonder if they'll have a wrap around electric heater for the coolant tank as an option soon. trace wire down the pipes and a general heater on the main tank should do the job.

Leighter weight cars, better aerodynamics (why are most EV SUV shaped), better efficiency and maybe nick that 2 speed gearbox from Porsche.

Our local VW specialist is certified by Nissan for battery changes/cell group replacements on the hybrid and electric cars. Interesting, because that gives a new life to a worthless (before it becomes too known) leaf.

It's funny, because without the grants/cheap charging, the electric car doesn't add up . It's 25p /kWh at home, 8p/30p on the discounted tarrif. Add in the very high cost of leasing such a vehicle and that's the "fuel" savings more than offset. Then get rid of the grants and add in having to pay for the charger etc. Of course to make any sense with current electric prices you need solar, but the VAT on those is 20% not 5% for most installs. Basically we're going to say the buzzwords, but do nothing to get it done.

Checked and mine doesn’t stop when start stop kicks in off 47. The wiper doesn’t stop either. Are you only connecting to a switched live? If so a small suitable smoothing capacitor in line might be enough to deal with voltage drop issues. Have to stay it doesn’t sound like that if it goes off.

Piggyback the rear wiper circuit? I want to say fuse 47 as I think I used , but I can’t fully remember. Pretty certain I used 40 and 47, one being the lighter socket and the other the rear wiper.

Take an old memory module out and find the sticker on it. Take a picture of the sticker and post it up here. Also any reason you're trying to save an SX... if it was a DX I'd understand

Out of interest, those who have problems with the prestone, is it the yellow or the blue (colder temperature) one that they see issue with? I only use the concentrates and have mostly used the blue, so when I finish the yellow it will be interesting to see.

Ouch. You are of course correct that I'm not aware with the system, however that sounds like a right mess. With the above, I would probably then set up a central scottish API, to allow common payments/accounts etc, let the councils do their own maintainance agreements and installations and specify that to get central money/tax discounts then it must work with the interface. You'd probably get some competition, others replacing the broken chargers with their own so they can easily maintain them. From what you're saying it sounds like the one company having everything and almost nothing to lose isn't working.

Current large family car, with a big heavy diesel in it, 1.5 tonne. Any new similar sized EV with decent range (300 miles +) is upwards of 2 Tonne. I'd like to be wrong, so if you can point to a less than 2 tonne, greater than 300 mile replacement EV car (Octy Sized) , I'm all ears. Chicken and egg sadly.

I wonder if that Honda BOC site is still there now the factory is closed 😕

Shut it down as a company and let everyone go, then sell the infrastructure as an asset to whichever company pays the public purse the most? If you sell groups of a popular and a couple of less popular one and dish them out to multiple companies that’s even better. Cruel, but it’d deal with TUPE if staff are really as bad as is being said. Essentially shut it down and asset strip it.

Maybe they should have included fiddling with stupid touch screen in car controls as something that wasn't permitted.