Monkhai

The fiesta isn’t electric, what did I miss? Thieves steal stuff… in other news the world is round, the pope is catholic and bears xxxx in the woods.

A lot of people won’t go EV due to downtime. I couldn’t make it work with a 400v car due to my business travel, so I am limited to the highest speed chargers and some hope when working. Getting people out of ice is the goal here, hence when I said hybrid I kept it range extender electric drive only. BEV vs FCEV is the secondary debate of what is best vs good and the answer won’t be the same for everyone. Time does matter. But once a pumped hydro or h2 production facility is built it can generate. Sure use v2g, but if I was buying a car outright with lithium batteries I wouldn’t allow it myself due to increased battery degradation. Small maybe, but I want to keep the v. Expensive car going as long as possible. Thing is though, it’s almost not at all about efficiency and hugely about localised air pollution. As I said elsewhere I’d use excess wind to make green hydrogen, store and sell for transport and keep some to make electricity for the grid in low generation days. Even with blue (and a few years notice plan for a suitable tax on blue for price parity plus a bit with green) the CO2 being captured is better than it going in the atmosphere along with NOx and PM from petrol and diesel. Local air pollution is a very immediate problem along with CO2 and if people don’t want a car with a plug, I’d rather get them a step closer until battery/technology improves generally. Smart meter installer told me they’re been tasked with looking more carefully at the seals now prices are much higher. To be honest, I think the DNO should be required to provide a fuse, meter and an isolator, but that’s just my view.

Not strictly true, they must be suitably qualified, have the correct equipment and have permission from the DNO. That last bit is usually only permitted for their staff. Of course any home without an isolation switch after the main fuse, should probably get one fitted, so the fuse is no longer an issue. https://engx.theiet.org/f/wiring-and-regulations/22053/on-the-subject-of-pulling-the-dno-fuse

Slight disagreement as actually many people who drive for work and currently use diesel to minimise down time between sites would kill for a decent hydrogen vehicle. Plenty don’t have drives too. So whilst battery is good for many, hydrogen would be good. I would like the option and would likely own one BEV with a 200 mile range and an FCEV. As it stands it’s a 300-450mile BEV and a diesel. Obviously an FCEV would be better and the smaller battery would be more efficient on the BEV. I also fundamentally don’t think v2g is the answer you think. Solar systems requiring a mandatory load shedding to home battery/hot water or EV is as much use. Pumped hydro and hydrogen generation to store excess renewables and use them when wind/sun is low is far more manageable for the grid and storage should be mandated for renewable generators. (Domestic could be v2g/home battery or throttle back). The storage at generation would also means rather than paying people to consume excess, generators could be mandated to disconnect from grid and store. These stores could the be used to balance the grid instead of gas backup stations when renewable generation is low. Batteries for EV are not exactly nice to make in terms of environmental impact, so smaller batteries in more efficient cars, with generator storage and an option for people who need mega daily range (at a cost) isn’t a bad thing. Don’t let perfect get in the way of good, and from an environmental point of view an FCEV is better than an ICE. Ideally green hydrogen, but even blue is better than petrol/diesel/gas boilers. At least pollutants could be scrubbed/captured and handled rather than coming out of every exhaust/boiler flu untreated.

If you have a drive, then an EV charger is possible and an EV can be charged at 2-3p per mile. if you don’t have a drive, then either keep what you have or go for a range extender hybrid (electric drivetrain, engine is a generator only). I think freight will be hydrogen and just like high mileage drivers used to use diesel but everyone normal was petrol, the long range/short stop time drivers might have hydrogen fuel cells.

Tiny hit tbh for AC or heating probably in the region of 5% or 10% on a crazy cold/hot day way outside what you’ll find here. Speed/driving style would have a far bigger effect. Talking of AC, car on an AC charger, set meeting end time plus 15 minutes, got into a car at 20 degrees with full range rather than hot hot hot. Much harder to do that in an ICE car and the EV can pre heat/cool from battery if really needed.

Better not get a car park full of automatic SUV or those daft oversized pickup trucks… who know what could happen, they might cause car parks to collapse 😂😂😋 Im glad the typical space size is increasing, although I’d still like a little more width due to above mentioned cars and an amazing inability to get near the centre of a bay.

The bit that got me was the article saying it would still be based of MEB not PPE or an MEB replacement. MEB is not proving to be a platform to have fantastic cars riding on it IMHO.

I’m absolutely not interested in hatches as everything is an SUV and I want load lugging. SUV formats are ok but not a patch on an estate. 👍 as for the id3/4, that’s the enyaq and personally I hated the 3 and sadly the 4/enyaq shared some of the traits I hated. I wouldn’t touch an octy based on that a barge pole. Currently thinking A6 Avant etron when the ev6 is due back.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/skoda-confirms-octavia-sized-electric-estate-car-2026 my main thoughts… really interesting and I’d love an octavia as I do miss mine. It could do with touching the magic 400 miles for a real world >300 winter miles. Also I know it’s up to 200kW… but why go 400V not 800V. if it’s RWD, please add AWD options.

diesel run well past 150k and 8 years without a rebuild… and often a new engine wouldn’t cost 10k, never mind a rebuild. Fuel tank isn’t that expensive either. It’s usually been other things that make them cost prohibitive to repair between 15/20 years Whilst I like the EV, if 160k is normal before it is expected a 10k battery refurb is needed that would put me off. 10k/8years = 1.25k per year @1.50/L and 11MPL is just over 9000 miles a year in fuel. Uk average is now around 8k miles per year.

IIRC they do11kW single phase charging, which is a whole lot of current.

Back on point I was on the m/way with three electric cars together and none of them spontaneously caught fire. When rapid charging no cars there caught fire either. I did see the charred remains of what looked like an ICE van in a parking bay though, which was being removed.

Would help if they mandated plug in and engines off within an hour or so for all ships mooring in the UK.

Well they said the EU5 diesels without adblue were as clean as they claimed, so big pinch of salt there. A 2.0 diesel EU6 rde2 with the correct adblue and a DPF has very low NOx and PM. I am not saying it’s perfect, but it is demonised, whilst the 1.0L turbo gdi found in many a small car was lauded. The same real world tests that caught dodgy diesel show many of those tiny turbos are well over. Frankly I think all family and city type cars should move to electric motors. Any petrol or LPG should be range extension and in the form of a generator to charge a battery. No excuse for carrying around a massive engine, gearboxes, electric motors and undersized batteries in current hybrids.

Guess they better ban high compression direct injection petrol engines. Particularly the turbo charged small ones. You might want to look at the compression ratios they run and how they too sail past what they claim. A diesel which correctly uses adblu will emit almost no NOx as it’s converted .

Firstly I’d suggest the forum is a community who help each other and are not an on demand service. Be polite and patient you may get help. if you want on demand, it’s a garage you need to speak to. Second, please read the forum guidelines before you carry on posting. Thirdly and in response to your question, which fault light is on and have you had the car scanned with a dealer tool, vcds or similar. If so what was the fault code. If not that’s the only place to start. 👍

Just to point out that before automatic fuel cut off and specialist foams for fighting them ICE fires were terrible. I would imagine a lot of research will go into how to stop such fires in EV. Maybe they’ll discover dry ice or liquid nitrogen is the answer to stop thermal runaway. Buildings get dry risers, maybe Batteries will get similar channels to distribute something that will take the heat energy away fast.

There have been fires on ships since ships began. Engine fires, cargo fires, petrol car fires, random goods. Frankly the first ship was full of high end cars and a few EV. It’s just as likely that brake fluid leaked onto something hot, or petrol vapour filled an area as it is an EV. Speculation on all fronts is just that. So EV fires can run away when they’re bad, but how many petrol cars catch fire and are serviceable rather than a total write off afterwards? There are far fewer causes for an EV to catch fire vs cars full of flammable hydrocarbons. Putting one out might be better understood but that wasn’t always the case and won’t always be the case as technology changes. That’s fire fighting research and tech but also battery changes.

In past 12 months I have seen zero EV’s on fire. I have seen at least half a dozen fires from ICE cars/vans, one of which may have been a hybrid. Petrol is bleeding nasty when it goes up. For a bit of clarity: Felicity Ace: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60429584 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Ace No clarity if it was one of the small number of EV or the larger number of ICE that started the fire Fremantle Highway : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Fremantle_Highway ” Investigations There has been much speculation that the battery pack from an electric car caused the fire.[17] However, the cause of the fire is unknown.[18] Investigations started when the ship was moored in Eemshaven.[16][19]”

I was going to suggest an idle charge to stop them, but if £1 a minute doesn’t do it there is limited hope. Maybe they don’t realise until they get the fine?

Look at an EV6 and i5 which in AWD weigh about 2 tonnes. That’s no worse than their SUV models with an auto gearbox and lighter than plenty of other popular SUV. We don’t hear stories of car parks being strengthened because everyone drives around in 2+ tonnes SUV. I can only give my opinion but obviously agree. No family or business driver objects to a bathroom and coffee stop. Hour long charges Gower extend the journey time too much, particularly if you need to queue.

I either drive short journeys around town, at which point it doesn’t matter or more often full range+ in each direction. Was sat 350kW chargers the other day, with screaming child in car. An EQS, ioniq5, myself were all charging around 200kW. There was an MG5 getting under 50 and the owner said it was the limit. The less than 2 year old id4 was getting 49kW when I looked & under 50% full. The kids were asking the driver when could they go. We changed/fed the baby used the facilities and were on our way with the motion brink back silence. I’m guessing the id4 has the same charger as the enyaq. Frankly I’ve not seen any 400v car (Tesla on super chargers excluded) get anywhere near the claimed speeds, but do realise some people must be. You say owners are reporting higher and that’s genuinely great, but it isn’t my experience. When I talk to people at rapid chargers, polestar, Volvo, MG, VW, Audi and one enyaq that I can think of they’re amazed how fast the Kia, Hyundai and Porsche charge and are gone. Tesla on ionity seem to take ages too mind, so maybe it’s not just the car. For me around 20-30 minutes should be the maximum time to add 200 miles. It’s enough time to use the facilities, grab a drink and have a stretch without extending the journey time excessively. I got stuck on a 50kW gridserve giving out less than 30 and after 45 minutes had had enough and had enough to reach some 350s. VW group recognise this on their premium cars as the Q8 and other new Audi vehicles are moving to 800V. Time is definitely a precious commodity. Also faster chargers and faster charging should mean less queues.

Regardless of the story… vw cars are too slow to charge, have horrible entertainment system and the brake/suspension set up was nasty. The ID3 was available at a good price point, but not sure if that’s true. I’d suggest they need a new platform, so maybe they should hurry up with the PPE for Audi.

My current understanding is: If you own your home… no If you rent you landlord might get a grant Oddly enough our quotes were about £400 cheaper than a neighbour who rushed to get the grant…