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13.5 hours door to door for 1,100Km yesterday.
Only weak link was the shitty border checks at eurotunnel. Nowhere near full trains and there was a queue of well over an hour just to check passports.
No one asked for or checked any Covid docs.
Only required three charge stops and I got home with 30% so could have reduced my last charge time. Tesla mapped it as if I was driving the channel 🙄.
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Can’t help you with the DVLA I’m afraid, but the motor and controller combo have an EU certification. Not much use to you though… It makes the conversion a bit simpler; most of the electricy parts are in the box on top of the motor. And it comes with a manual that explains how to wire things up and how the BMS works with different battery setups. Still requires comon sense and reading up on things but it is doable. The Fiat was the converters first conversion, he is a pro mechanic though. Only a few oversights on his part, but they were colour coding related. The diff on the pics is our transverse solution with a reduction gear.
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Another review by the same fella, again mentioning an automatic gearbox selector.
Having said that, a cheapish EV estate car is a welcome thing.
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Ugh, for hot takes that's a pretty weak one.
A better one would be to say that purchasing any new vehicle is more damaging to the environment than maintaining any older vehicle.
Vehicle production is not carbon (and other key pollutants) zero... very few manufacturers have even achieved carbon neutral (not always by reducing any carbon themselves, but by paying someone else to plant trees, etc).
This at least is a legitimate hot take, but people don't play that card as they're still buying new fossil fuel cars and would rightly be called out as being hypocritical.
If the ecology were truly the exclusive concern of people who purchased EVs, then those people would in fact be purchasing Citroen 2CVs and maintaining them. But it isn't, every person here has their own reasons for being spendy on an EV, PHEV, etc... from environment, performance (speed), discounts on parking, lower running costs, status, luxury, tech, all kinds of reasons yet we're all still invested in private vehicle ownership and have all purchased vehicles that are currently more polluting to produce than they are likely to save over the period of their running life. It is what it is. I'll console my guilt whilst relaxing in the super plush seats and gliding silently down the road.
I do love Volvo's Carbon Zero goal. I wonder how the hell they'll achieve that with shipping involved and even things like tyre compounds. Probably through qualifying the goal down to something more achievable.
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Citation needed. More seriously though, the low running costs of something like a 2CV, i.e. a small and very light older car with a modest engine and that isn't at all thirsty and that the car fully already exists and doesn't need to be shipped... just that as a starting point is going to mean any new EV produced is going to take a couple of decades to not have polluted more (in their production) than the old car (in it's operation).
Sure you can compare pollution from operating the vehicles and hand wave away the vague external costs of producing the fuel... but it's the production costs and sourcing of materials that gives an old car a hell of an advantage as it already exists and only has operating costs/pollution.
I'm clearly not arguing to buy an old 2CV and maintain it... as I didn't. I'm just not pretending I have any moral high ground here.
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Don’t forget the company car incentive with current 1% BIK rate on full EVs. I can get a middle of the road diesel and pay hundreds a month in BIK or get a much higher spec EV and pay (checks payslip…) £19 a month. I appreciate this does little to push mass market adoption but it’s a pretty big motivator for those who can get one on the company.
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what do people do if (i) they don't have off-street parking nor (ii) a charging station on their street? is this a really such a sub-optimal way to run an EV that you wouldn't do it or is it actually quite commonplace and people work around it?
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I wouldn't want to be in accident in a 2cv.. where I grew up one was cleaved in half by a motorbike. Driver and rider both died.
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different jonny dude. though @Jonny69 might have a little Fiat too?
I will keep the tiny 2 stroke engine alive as long as possible. and tbh it is in very good nick so should outlive me. but if time came that it wasn't I would certainly consider an EV conversion too.