Random EV thoughts.....

I thought the door was dented in near the front wheel arch in the first picture on first look.

Or an ID4 or an MG or a Hyundai or or or...

A better route planner (ABRP)

My Mustang Mach E does that for you when you plug in your destination.

It'd be like the bz4x then☺️

If he/she had their arms folded they could probably blame the car and get away with it

A Random thought no less but might be helpful to those with home charging(of any type) and you work from home. You are entitled to 30% on the cost of electricity, broadband and heating in 2023, I do my returns such as a balancing statement with revenue after year end payroll is finished(so January), and filling in and uploading the bills is a task in itself but 30% can be a lot of money.

As I am charging more now that I have a PHEV my electricity bill has gone up(petrol pump costs gone down) but I couldn't get a return for the petrol but I can on the electricity.

More info if you didn't know about it: https://www.revenue.ie/en/jobs-and-pensions/eworking/how-to-claim.aspx

You can go back and claim for previous years also.

You don't need an electric car obviously but seems, as a random thought, those home charging will actually further reduce operating costs.

Very flawed test. Based on the GOM 🤣

They should have run the cars down until they drove no more. It is well known that Teslas in general have a significant range left when 0 range is indicated. It seems the testers are very inexperienced with EVs 😂

Personally I regularly do trips in the Tesla where the very accurate GOM indicates will arrive home at 0% or even minus 1% or minus 2%. I wouldn't dream doing this in any other EV I own or have owned, unless I was certain it could do it (most can't)

There's another test here which might be better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwOa7TCd1E&t=10s

Funny you mention that. The EV owners facebook group did a Dublin-Cork-Dublin race a few years back. Guess what car won it? The Hyundai Ioniq with just a tiny 28kWh battery. Goes to show battery size / range isn't all that relevant these days even for very long trips.

And the winner was our own @ELM327

I'd say you'd do a cross continent 3000km trip in a bog standard Tesla Model 3 €40k quicker than you'd do it in a €200k top spec Porsche Taycan

It would be helpful though if car manufacturers had to state range until empty at 21C at 120km/h GPS speed for comparison. WLTP is useless for when range really matters. In the WLTP cycle they reach 120km/h once, just for a few moments. A very bad indicator of motorway range.

Battery for fully charges 62v leaf seems to drop percentage quote sharply at first but then is much more efficient after the first 10 or so percent.

I'm still getting around 300km from it including around 100k motorway driving but wondered what the initial drop is about