Graham Butcher

Well, those prices are well north of my replacement Superb, which I did eventually get down to about £600 with the same parameters.

Here you go then, MG mg4 extended range, 10,000 miles a year, comp, £1,000 excess.

Been there and did a while ago and just way of comparison against your findings on the BYD I did the same cover, less the legal cover and my quote makes yours look cheap. ☹️

Nope, it wasn't here is the full interview that Geoff Buys Cars had with the driver. This car has had 2 similar incidents and Jaguar keep saying they can find no problem with it....

It would be far better if anybody could drive them and without any special techniques get those kinds of miles between charges while driving in the same fashion that they would with ICE car. No flooring the throttle like a boy racer to get to the next set of lights first or no tickling the throttle and maximising the regen on overrun etc.

I would take those claims with a pinch of salt, all makers claim the very highest they can for everything and they are not really achievable in real life by real drivers in real world conditions.

I'm not sure that the assumed failure mode is as Porsche think it is, read the read bit I highlighted in red again and ask yourself, would you expect a new car, straight out of the factory and loaded onto a ship would have been A/ charged multiple times, B/ exposed to over voltage charging? You have to assume that the battery would have been charged in the factory and that the chargers had all been tested and not subject to higher output voltages that would damage the batteries fitted to their cars? I'm just taking everything that they have written in their recall notice at face value, it is their recall, their car, their wording so how does a "new" car get multiple charging events at chargers that are exceeding the upper voltage limits? That recall notice is aimed at cars already supplied to customers, and those cars would have had multiple charging events.

Confused, who is it that is saying they can get a certified range of 318 miles on 19 inch wheels? I expect that is a claim made by Telsa?

Hmm, I'm not so sure, reading the description of the fault it states the following :- Description of the Cause : The root cause is still under investigation. The current analysis suggests that multiple charging events above the upper voltage limit can degrade battery cells and cell-walls and increase the risk of internal short circuits All the cars on board the ship were brand new and could not have been subjected to the multiple charging events, and also as they also state charging above the upper voltage limit. If they are new cars, then they would have only been exposed to the charge cycle once? As to the fire fighting procedure robustness needing bolstering, you certainly are not kidding, we still have so much to learn about this technology before we can really view it in the same fashion as we can with ICE vehicles.

No, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they are destined for the UK. I think they are only in left hookers, too heavy and too wide at 2.4 metres?

Oh, so Geoff buys cars has also reported on this as well then. Now we have to wait for the report on the Fremantle Highway, which is highly likely to result in another lawsuit against Volkswagen.

Exactly this, and because it is a "pyro" fuse, it means there is zero chance of an arc being established, as the small explosion forcibly forces any arc outwards and thus stretches the arc so it can no longer sustain itself.

I was speaking about the Tesla updates which @wyx087 posted about a while ago where Tesla can remotely access a Tesla and indeed it is mentioned on the "Just Get a Tesla" YT channel as when he had the issue IIRC a broken headlight, and they remotely accessed his Tesla to diagnose it.

Yes, I was just about to correct my original posting as I realised that @xman post I replied to, was talking about the brake failure, but at the time I thought he was talking about the other incident that the driver had on 22nd December last year at 3am when the car sped upto 100mph on the motorway and he also had to do a 999 call for assistance.

And to think that this was 8 years ago, now we have EVs with over the air updates so this is even more possible and it is theoretically possible that even some radio signal etc, could also overwhelm the ECU's and cause glitches with possible highly undesirable consequences?

According to information, this incident with that Jaguar doing around 100mph on the motorway is indeed plausible as it is alleged to have been in this fault mode where the speed could not be regulated at 3am in the morning when there would not have been much in the line of other traffic on the road.

Today it was announced that it was indeed an EV (Porsche) that started the fire onboard the Felicity Ace in 2022 and lead to it going down with all of its cargo and a lawsuit has been filed against Volkswagen. MOL and Allianz take Volkswagen to court over sinking of Felicity Ace car carrier - Splash247 Felicity Ace

I think you are correct about the explosive part, DC is not something that takes kindly to being interrupted and so it has to be done at high speed.

No mission critical function should be a touch type control IMO.

It's my understanding that the complete traction system on EVs has to have a healthy 12v lead acid battery to operate. Battery fails, car shuts down and if battery fails while parked, then nothing will run. So in that case a failed battery shouldn't cause the problems you mentioned.

IIRC, there are more people going to University today then there was back in the 60s, back then it was the domain of the elite and those with the very highest level of GCSE passes and I have never been able to get a foot on the property level either. However the last 15 years have been tough for youngsters and when I referred to todays kids, I was more thinking about my own, and the youngest is 36 so in the strictest sense, they are really today's kids I admit, but my kids have had it far easier than I ever did.

We really had it hard in our day, we had no option other than to go to work to help support our families. Todays kids have never had it so easy.

When I started as an apprentice, I had to do a 48 hour week and was paid in todays money, £2.50 or £2 and 10/- as it was back then, I started driving 2 years later and petrol was then 3 gallons for £1.

No it wasn't lame appeal at all but a statement of common sense. Oneday they may say something that rings a bell and might even be right. I dare say that when diesel cars were advocated, there were people like these YouTubers around who predicted the folly but lacked the platform to alert others to the problems, surely you can see that? 👍

@wyx087that example of the Ionic shows that with the right support that electric cars could be a far higher percentage of all cars on the road today. It's upto governments to put the incentives in place.