Random EV thoughts.....

It's hit and miss. You could hit lucky and get a 22kw working or a destination charger that could keep you going.

I came across this EU supply tender, seems to be a bunch of ~50kW in the louth region. Pretty random!

‘Faster’ presented on the IEVOA thing over the weekend so if anyone wants to see their pitch, it's in the Everything you want to know about EV's thread.

Sorry for jumping on to thread but I can't seem to get a diffinitive answer to this question. When using regenerative braking do you physically need to use the paddles to slow the vehicle or once you've programmed them do you then leave them be and the settings will take care of the regenerative braking?

When you are stopped, or sitting at lights for example, and have your foot on the brake pedal, should you get into the habit of putting your ev in Park mode until you need to move off again? Or does it do no harm sitting in Drive with the brake holding the car from moving?

I don't think you need to put it in the park mode. For example Kona has a feature called autohold which kicks in when at stand still and will not move unless acceleration pedal is pressed. You have to activate it every time you start the car. Tesla has the same feature enabled by default.

When I rented the Model3 last year (with UFO Drive), I found the one-pedal driving a bit strange and couldn't get the hand of it.

Owning the Model 3 for about two weeks, I'd hate to go back.

Usually on Saturdays, its cold in the morning and I'll have charged to 90% meaning the regen will have reduced a bit, and the brakes will get a few taps while leaving the estate..

Depends on car but typically no. On many cars such as Hyundai and Kia if you press the brake pedal it will also use regeneration in addition to the actual brakes if required. In fact lack of use of brakes can cause them to rust and siese up. Tesla modified the behaviour of their brakes so that at very low speeds the actual brakes are used, to try clean up rust from the brakes to stop rust. This was done to prevent brake discs needing to be replaced due to rust, having been barely worn.

On some cars you can set different regeneration on different drive modes such as eco, sport, normal having different default regeneration.

For maximum range under extreme range stingy conditions you want no regeneration and keep way back from car in front and never brake. While regeneration puts power back in battery it's not that efficient, better to not brake or slow in the first place.

I always have the foot on the brake (out of habit) when at a complete stop in traffic, so that if I get a love tap from the car behind I (hopefully) wont be shunted into the car in front.

I appreciate that the car will hold itself when at rest, but I am unsure if it would hold if my foot wasnt on the brake in such a situation so apply the brake as a precautionary measure. It might also be a complete waste of time.

A quick click of the paddles allows adjusting the regen while driving without having to go to the menu which is great. Hold in the right paddle to swap between auto regen and normal regen. As mention click and hold in the left paddle, this uses a regen level higher than level 3.

Auto regen is great and is a bit of a safety feature. Not sure if it's meant to be.

Yeah I never got the attraction of having paddles to set the regen, do people really change it that often?

Having said that some configuration would be nice, the ID cars basically just have D mode for minimal regen and B mode for max regen. Really wish they had a proper one pedal mode, two pedal driving is far too much work for me 😁

Every day. Zero for motorway. Level one or two for local driving, squeeze the paddle every now and then for braking.

Hmm, okay fair point. I still feel like the paddle shift would be for something you'd be using every few seconds

While I like the simplicity of D and B modes, I do feel it silly that the ID cars lack a one pedal mode that Kia/Hyundai have.

I still feel like Nissan have it best with just a switch to turn one pedal on and off, no need to hold anything down

We love the 1 pedal driving of the Model 3.

set it on Hold (Full regen) the 1st day and have never changed it since…..

52,000km on the car and the brake pads are only just worn in.