Electric Vehicles: What have you spotted?

[Hell Razor5543]

I don't have any photographs, but I just HAVE to report that, on the way to Wantage this afternoon I saw a pair of black Ford Mustang Mach-E in convoy. So what? The first was a hearse, and the second was a limousine!

[myglaren]

Reminds me, I saw a Mustang too this morning and was reminded that I had sent my daughter a photo of an electric hearse.
She said they had looked at them (Mustangs) for their fleet but couldn't abide the ugliness of them.

[mickthemaverick]

I can see what they mean!

Bftw

[CitroJim]

Oh gawd... I wouldn't be seen dead in one of those

[NewcastleFalcon]

A bit more colour

Red and Blue	Blue
Red	Blue-ish

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

A pair of VW's in a Village Car park just a short period of years apart. But miles apart in their development.

The VW e-golf, a normal golf with an electric powertrain shoved into an ICE designed car, vintage 2019
The VW ID 7, a first for the thread, entirely new model not an SUV but a fully electric fastback. Comes in some nice colours too although the first spottage was nice and grey. Its a decent shape but more on the car in the "what's available" thread there's bound to be a video on it!

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Volkswagens seem to be flavour of the spotting month. Hardly ever seen a VW e-up but one or two have cropped up including one in this little crop from yesterday 4-door with a dog-crate in the back

Grubby VW e-up	Pristine white as the driven snow VW ID Buzz
A brace of Jags	Brand new VW ID 4

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

A simple MG4. The more familiar sight they become, the more ordinary they look, those in highlighter in your face orange and blue demand attention, but this red one just merges into the street scene. Quite pleased with the photo, looks like I have accidentally got the MG in sort of focus while the passing car is blurred.

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

On the cobbles at Alnwick. Close encounter of the first kind for me, but not for the thread. Got a wow what's that from me.

Hyundai Ioniq 6.

Neil

[Gibbo2286]

A new podcast with Imogen here, it's quite long but I found it interesting.

[ChrisRobin]

Electric Vehicles and what I have spotted........

The best way to fix an EV.........

Been on ramp for 2 weeks waiting for a part.

SO..... Put an engine in it.

Not quite what the thread is about, I know! but rather amusing never the less.

[NewcastleFalcon]

The masking doesn't work on the Reg number Chris if it was your intention to hide it.

One of the VW Group triplets, along with the Skoda Citigo-e iV and the VW up!. Bit of a half-hearted effort from VW group as evidenced by their axing of the Citigo-e back in 2020. viewtopic.php?p=656499&hilit=citigo+e#p656499

A very recent post of mine!

Volkswagens seem to be flavour of the spotting month. Hardly ever seen a VW e-up but one or two have cropped up including one in this little crop from yesterday 4-door with a dog-crate in the back

Grubby VW e-up	Pristine white as the driven snow VW ID Buzz
VW ID7	Brand new VW ID 4

Neil

[CitroJim]

The best way to fix an EV.........


SO..... Put an engine in it.

A good plan!

[ChrisRobin]

@NewcastleFalcon, Love the pictures seems odd to see them on the road and not in the air having new cells fitted, apart from the BUZZ which seems to be the best of them, we don't see many BUZZ's in for work apart from service time, they seem pretty stable.
All suffer from charge flap issues (excluding BUZZ) including Audi, Seat and Skoda, but the I.D,s seem to also have cell issues as do Audi not so much Skoda/Seat (maybe the amount we sell perhaps) and door handle (driver side) issues on the I.Ds, we have replaced quite a few of them so far, Audi seems to be front motors on the smaller Q range.

It is new technology so it will need to settle in and be tweaked as did the ICE range I would imagine when it replaced horse and carriage, time will tell.

It just looked funny with an engine dumped behind it.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Niggly things that need sorting Chris, and quality control, and overcomplication with software, infotainment etc. At its heart the EV is very simple, and very reliable and requires little maintenance. Mine has never been anywhere near the dealer in the last almost 5 years and 53,000 miles. In many ways you are better off if you do want to go for an EV to get them at the just off lease/PCP at 3 or 4 years old. By then all the new car niggles if there are any, and warranty rectifications should have been sorted.

As far as ongoing maintenance is concerned, the running gear is just as for cars with alternative powertrains, and well within the capabilities of professional mechanics, and even amateurs like me with no high voltage training. Discs and pads are discs and pads, bushes are bushes, suspension arms ball joints and springs all pretty familiar.

The Leaf is a bit simpler than the 2024 crop of EV's granted. None of this coolant flowing through pipework in the battery pack to optimise temperature of charging/recharging/ battery operation. Gets lambasted even in EV circles for not having thermal management, but the first gen Leafs are reassuringly long lasted in any case in the temperate UK climate, and mine has 11 out of 12 bars state of health remaining after 82,000 miles and nine years.

You will have seen more complicated drivetrains than this. Electric motor turns A, A turns B, B turns C and C via the driveshafts turns the wheels.



Neil