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Old 9th January 2021, 10:12   #11
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It depends on how you use a car if an EV will work for you. The wife never goes further than 50 miles away from home and uses her car mainly to drive to work 10 miles away so an EV would suit her perfectly if we could afford one.

As has been said the time it takes to recharge is one of the biggest reasons apart from the cost why I would have one at the moment. A Tesla owner was telling me he had a proper car for long journeys but prefers the Tesla for local trips.
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Old 9th January 2021, 14:17   #12
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Is it a Model 3 he has? He must have the standard range version, which at this time of year would need a recharge after around 180 miles. A huge advantage of having a Tesla has been the free supercharging at their own network, meaning you wouldn't need more than a 10-15 minute stop, but I think they stopped making it free to new customers at some stage in the last year or two. A long-range variant Model S would easily manage 275 miles on a single charge even in this cold weather, but of course you pay for this option.

Tesla are certainly still the leaders when it comes to driving (ahaha) progress when it comes to range and recharge times, with 400+ miles between charges expected from next year's Cybertruck and 600 (!) miles between charges for the Roadster, but these are far from being mass-market cars, so this sort of range probably won't be available to the ordinary punter for a few more years.

They aren't as far ahead of the competition as they used to be, though. I'm looking forward to seeing what the new Hyundai Ioniq 5 will be like when it comes to market in a few months' time. It's a mid-sized crossover, so similar in size to the Golf+ or Tucson, with a 300 mile range and 350kW charging, meaning you could drive 300 miles and add another 250 miles of range in 15 minutes at the right charger. Still too pricey for me at an expected £40k, but definitely a serious competitor to the likes of Tesla, Nissan, Ford and VW and probably built better than any of them.
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Old 9th January 2021, 14:27   #13
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Is it a Model 3 he has? He must have the standard range version, which at this time of year would need a recharge after around 180 miles. A huge advantage of having a Tesla has been the free supercharging at their own network, meaning you wouldn't need more than a 10-15 minute stop, but I think they stopped making it free to new customers at some stage in the last year or two. A long-range variant Model S would easily manage 275 miles on a single charge even in this cold weather, but of course you pay for this option.

Tesla are certainly still the leaders when it comes to driving (ahaha) progress when it comes to range and recharge times, with 400+ miles between charges expected from next year's Cybertruck and 600 (!) miles between charges for the Roadster, but these are far from being mass-market cars, so this sort of range probably won't be available to the ordinary punter for a few more years.

They aren't as far ahead of the competition as they used to be, though. I'm looking forward to seeing what the new Hyundai Ioniq 5 will be like when it comes to market in a few months' time. It's a mid-sized crossover, so similar in size to the Golf+ or Tucson, with a 300 mile range and 350kW charging, meaning you could drive 300 miles and add another 250 miles of range in 15 minutes at the right charger. Still too pricey for me at an expected £40k, but definitely a serious competitor to the likes of Tesla, Nissan, Ford and VW and probably built better than any of them.



Renault are bringing back some of their old model names from the 1960/70's to electrify them https://eminetra.com/renault-plans-a...-and-4/296673/
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Old 12th January 2021, 07:19   #14
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I enjoy watching the Retrocars weekly videos on YouTube. Over the festive period the brothers released two that were Q&A sessions, not their usual run around the workshop films. In the second of the two videos they give their view of converting to electric. As probably the leaders in converting and upgrading classics it's an interesting take.

Thinking on, why have they not had a go at a ZT or 75?
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Anybody with a classic Mini fancy going down the electric conversion route.....
They're not cheap!
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/i...t-classic-mini
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