Electric car anyone?
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3 Jul
10:12am, 3 Jul 2025
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Chrisull
Ford CEO on Chinese EVs: "Their cost, their quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West." "If we lose this, we do not have a future Ford" "It's the most humbling thing I have ever seen" businessinsider.com |
3 Jul
10:22am, 3 Jul 2025
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larkim
Funny how this is pretty much identical to the ICE world. With few exceptions, it's fairly well established that manufacturing cars in the far east and China is producing great quality cars, not cheap sub-par alternatives. We shouldn't be particularly surprised that that region of the world can successfully marry up their skills in modern engineering of electronics with automotive plants and turn out high quality EVs. Doesn't mean that it is the only part of the world that can do this, but I would guess it would be the exception now that fitted an accusation of a product being "cheaply made chinese rubbish" in the EV sector. |
3 Jul
6:16pm, 3 Jul 2025
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Gobi
@HappyTimes nothing is as cool as Gull Wing doors 😀 I'm in Paris , it has been drama free ! |
5 Jul
7:24pm, 5 Jul 2025
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Gromit
Seems @Gobi has been 24 hours ahead of us …. Derbyshire to Chamonix … 9 charges in total .. approx £95 spent and I’ve still got 50% range in the car so I’m not worrying about finding anywhere here just yet as I’ll not be driving for a a few days … a few Tesla Superchargers but to be honest just the general various brands at the motorway services haven’t been too expensive.
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5 Jul
7:45pm, 5 Jul 2025
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Gobi
I only stopped once and used a supercharger. Car is at 50 % so will charge on Monday on road to Dunkirk My only charge in France was 29p per kw!! |
5 Jul
11:48pm, 5 Jul 2025
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jda
I just did a 285 mile round trip (fri-sat) and got home with 23 miles left on the meter. Low battery warning (8%) pinged as I made the final turn onto my street. Mind you I did drive very gently on the motorway sections, partly due to congestion on the way down, partly due being tired and wanting a relaxing drive on the way home. Could have put in a few units in the two brief stops I made, but no need. |
6 Jul
10:15am, 6 Jul 2025
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HappyG(rrr)
We did 240 mile holiday trip and could have got home with 20 or 30 miles left. But cos we were mooching about a holiday town for a few hours, a slow charger giving 10kW was ideal for a top up.  G
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7 Jul
2:59pm, 7 Jul 2025
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DeeGee
Had I been slightly more patient on my journey home, I could probably have done Woking to Grimsby via Legoland Windsor on Sunday without needing a stop. It was neck and neck on the guessometer and the sat-nav for quite a while. Needed a coffee anyway, though, so grabbed a few electrons just to make it more certain. Not currently many opportunities for a rapid charge between Lincoln and Grimsby on a Sunday night... |
7 Jul
3:46pm, 7 Jul 2025
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Bob!
I did a 210 mile round trip to Sussex yesterday, using 207 miles of charge. What I particularly enjoyed (twice) was seeing the range go up whilst driving downhill! |
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