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How many kids are you ferrying?

Just 2.

Nice one - thanks

looks nice in the other colour as well

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Got to drive an Ami yesterday. When attempting this, it's important to not think of it as a car. It's so basic in feel and construction, a milk float comes to mind. Very spacious inside though, I like the interior style and having only 4 buttons and one indicator stalk. 28mph felt quite quick!

What Mercedes do you have?

I’m looking at diesel hybrids. I do 200 miles a day with my job. Not everyday but 3 days per week. Around Norfolk and Suffolk. I’m not combed there’s enough charging points out there to go electric yet.

Asked in the car thread already , but I thought I’d ask here too- I’m considering a 2020/ 21 Hyundai Ioniq . Anyone have any opinions or experience of them?

Will be used mostly urban, the occasional 200 mile journey. I have a drive to charge on .

Looking for something that’s not an suv , sub 15k second hand

Hyundai offering a spacious, but small footprint EV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7swFbkdV4

well done hyundai.
looks like a very well thought out compact car.
this is what people should be buying / driving IMO instead of the massive wankpanzer twatwagons that seem to be the go-to for school run mums.
i'd totally have one of these if i was in the market.

Yes - this is where we should be going. Our Zoe lease is up in Nov and, outside of Ami/Smarts, there is a real lack of small, budget city cars but with 200mi range. Everything just getting bigger and bigger.

There is a limit to physics at the moment. Battery density + crash regulations means bigger cars if you want 200mi range.

MG4 is probably the best at that size / cost right now.

Zoe does (and that^^) and the Zoe is old now. May have to accept that as a second car (>>GC) sub 200 is liveable, but just makes it slightly less practical and cuts the uses down a bit. I was hoping that by the end of this lease choice would be more, not less.
Plan is for one more while we still need a bigger car for kid ferrying, then be able to go back to a single mid-size EV as the sold car.

MG4 is probably the best at that size / cost right now.

Been pretty happy with ours, but the fact you have to turn off lane assist every fucking time you use the car drives me insane.

Try asking a dealership to do a software update.

Tell them the lane keep assist has been trying to kill you.

There’s a module update that dulls it down and makes it less jittery. Also, if you get the latest OS update, the pull down menu has a shortcut to kill LKA without having to go deep in the menu.

Just seen that you can now get a CCS-2 to Chademo converter which whilst making long journeys way easier in a Leaf would also introduce an element of danger to charging I'm not sure I'm ready for. Also £1000.

https://evani.uk/the-ccs2-to-chademo-adaptor-review/

I’ve got a Honda HRV EV as a courtesy car. Put it on charge using the 3pin plug to charge. Just tried to take the plug out of the car and it’s stuck.

Am I being a pleb? Should this happen or is there a reason?

You need to (I assume) “unlock” it. Cycling the door locks probably works

^ this.

Either unlock the car or there'll be an unlock button somewhere in the car. It's to stop people nicking your charger.

Sounds like a good safety measure

It’s actually the Honda ey1 I’ve got as a courtesy car. Drove to Thetford and back from Peterborough. It barely made it back.

200 mile range is not enough. 400 is ideal. But I can do 200 miles a day with work easily. So for each day I’m out I’d have to factor in a stop to charge. Sounds easy but Norfolk/Suffolk don’t seem to have an abundance of chargers. Plus there is either occupied, out of service or in case of today, I had fuck all phone signal so couldnt even download the app for the charger to then charge.

Colleague at work returned from a two week holiday where he was planning to drive to Switzerland then return via Germany and Belgium to visit friends with his whole family in a 10 month old BMW iX.

Half a mile from their accommodation on a Swiss mountain pass the BMW just lost all power and shut down. And that was that, unrepairable fault with car gone back to BMW with 3 months ETA for return and BMW paying to repatriate him and the family back to the UK.

Seems this is a not an isolated incident

https://www.ixforums.com/threads/ix-quality-issue-my-new-ix-stopped-on-the-road.1439/?nested_view=1&sortby=oldest#replies

Meh. I seem to have run out of fucks for people with vehicles like that.

In fairness one of our mates had an almost identical situation with a diesel 5 series.

Except they had a 3m fight with BMW over the work and repatriating the car. Ultimately the husband had to get a mate to drive him back to France to collect the car from BMW France with a new engine block.

#customerservice

My parents had a similar issue with their Tesla Model Y last year. 15 miles outside of Calais, it completely shut down.

Car had to be repaired in Lille. Tesla paid for overnight accommodation and travel back to the UK (basically reimbursing me for doing a late night euro tunnel run to collect them) and train travel back to Lille to collect but that means they had to drive it back from Lille once fixed.

Rear motor was replaced at no charge within 2 weeks though.

Passed 26k miles on the Model Y today. Had it for nearly 2 1/2 years.

Very happy with the efficiency of it; nearly 4 miles per kW over all conditions with lots of motorway driving is insane. Much more efficient than our MG4.

Today was nearly 5 miles per kW over 60 miles in the end.

/csb

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