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We have a Renault 5 it’s amazing, now a convert too.

Went for the Anderson Quartz charger, think they are now doing a deal with EDF which gives you more cheap electric.

I chatted today to an English guy in Slovenia who parked his Kia EV9 (?) next to my car .Gosh that is an ugly lump ! I asked him how his trip was and he said it was fine in France for charging but Germany was a bit difficult. He also has a Tesla Y (no idea what that is) but he prefers the Kia.
He was adamant that I could do the trip from London to Slovenia in an EV without too many stops ( we only stop for a pee & coffee normally) In fact he suggested I swap the XC60 for the new electric one which supposedly has a great range ?
The trouble is I don’t have a large drive, and the houses are terrace or end of terrace, so how do I charge conveniently !?
Funnily enough as I drove away a minute ev car, front seat driver only and his wife in the one seat behind . It was tall and very narrow, looked like the wind would blow it over, Peel size but with a backseat .
It had something like econoline on the side and an e logo on the back, very box like, any idea what it was ?

Best MM
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In April, I bought a Kia EV3 GT with the 85 kw battery. Official range is 375 miles. I’ve barely done a couple of thousand miles but am averaging 4.2 m/kwh. Very happy with it so far. Thankfully, it has a few buttons for commonly used things rather than being all menu driven. (I rode with a friend in her Renault ev and she apologised for the radio being so loud as she hadn’t yet worked out how to turn it down!)
As my annual mileage is relatively low, I simply charge it on a granny charger which although it might take over 24 hours, that is no bother to me and I think the battery will appreciate it as well rather than having 100s of kw up its jacksy. 🥵
My previous Volvo XC40 was 3.4 times as expensive to run even when you compare petrol to ordinary electricity tariff rates. (and that was when petrol was £1.58/litre; remember thise days?.)

Why are almost all the latest EV's styled like an oversize brick, with massive fontal areas ?

Remember the days of manufacturers bragging amazing Cd values and all that eco low drag coefficient stuff ?

And as for the latest BMW grilles that look like a basking shark

I think many EV's do have very low Cd values.

I owned a BYD Seal for over a year.

20k miles, zero problems (and a CD of 0.219).

The comments went from - and we thought the idiots had all left now to put a bag of rice in it, worked on my phone..

The tireless Westcountry humour at the expense of the idiots that invade not understanding about tides etc - and they wonder why so many drown - Darwin at work here o.k. regulating the population.

This is why your INS Premium goes up annually, we get at least 5 of these that I am aware of once numpty season arrives.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the deep chin styling is massively popular in China and other Far Eastern markets?

Jon, BMW switching to small kidney grilles with the Neue Klasse: iX3 and I3 (fortunately......)!

In 2015 I rode my Fat bike 1300km across the Kimberleys in Western Australia finishing at Broome. Spent a few days in Broome and I rode the length of Cable Beach just because I was there and unlikely to go back, even if i did unlikely to have a bike with me. Cable Beach is only 17km in length so 34km return trip which seemed pretty easy after what I had ridden the previous few weeks.

As you can see in the photos the beach goes out a long way and the area is notorious for 9 metre tides. I saw a bogged 4WD up near the dunes where most of the 4WD's were closer to the water. I stopped to chat to a guy who said you have to stayaway from the dunes as the sand is too soft up there, in a few hours that car will be under water and a write off without insurance. A bit sad but it proves there are idiots everywhere who want to drive on the beach and back then all Diesel rather than EV. At least Australian Insurance does not cover beaches so we don't have to pay for the idiots.

I rode back thinking if the tide came in I can carry my bike, or if I lost it I only paid $1900 for it new so not a huge loss compared to a fairly new 4WD.