Electric Vehicles: What have you spotted?

[mickthemaverick]

I like the idea when a charge is full then a bell rings and ten minutes later the car begins discharging at twice the charge rate!!

[Hell Razor5543]

I spotted an unusual electric vehicle today (being delivered, as it was on a trailer). A 23 reg electric Mini Moke! No photos. as I was driving at the time.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yes this is the Moke Story

https://mokeinternational.com/gb-en/our-story/

and this is what they are producing

https://mokeinternational.com/gb-en/our-story/

Neil

[myglaren]

Hardly any on a 200* mile excursion. Three Teslas, S, 3 & Y. ID3, AudiQ, Kia.

* was only supposed to be 160 miles but got lost in the North Yorkshire Badlands. Wrong exit on the roundabout half a mile from where I intended to go.

[Gibbo2286]

I like the idea when a charge is full then a bell rings and ten minutes later the car begins discharging at twice the charge rate!!

They have automatic parking on some of the stuff Mick maybe they could automatically eject from the space.

[Hell Razor5543]

I was in Swindon today, at the Greenbridge Retail Park, when I saw this Citroen Ami. The reason for the closeup of the windscreen is there is a little Perspex box on the dashboard with a model Citroen Ami in it!

[myglaren]

Nil. Long walk through a wild park so none there but stood a while on the bridges over the A182 and A195. Plenty of traffic, none of it electric. None in any of the Industrial Estate car parks or on the roads leading back home.

[Gibbo2286]

Tesco yesterday all the EV charger bays were vacant not a car in sight.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Parked next to a green flash BMW thing today, not one of the SUV things...just your saloon/coupe fairly normal looking BMW car. Didn't inspire a shutter click but maybe should have done one for the record...it was grey as well.

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_02_Se ... %5Bedit%5D

This might have got a shutter click, but they only made 2 for the 1972 Olympic Games, and at the time stuffed some Lead Acid batteries in it for a 19 mile range.


BMW 1602 Elektro IAA 2021 1X7A0257
Alexander Migl, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[myglaren]

Plus 3 Teslas, an Audi estate car, A Cupra, (first one), a BMW id3, C4 electric, Kia and a Leaf.

Just on a bob to the shops.

More later probably, trip to Durham this evening.

A Volvo, two more Telsas, three Audis.

[myglaren]

BMW & Mercedes charging (outside a factory).
Tesla and Polestar, both too fast for the camera.

[NewcastleFalcon]

67 Reg BMW i3 Rex...charging buddy. They had only had the car a matter of Days, 5 year old and looking indistinguishable from Brand new.

They needed the benefit of Falcon Free Friendly advice For Freshers about charging up, which we were happy to give. A thoroughly pleasant interaction, and the chargers/car suitably went through a decent educational exercise with a bit of Sod’s law playing up.

A tale of 2 chargers, as Charles Dickens might have titled it.

We all know on road chargers should be simple to use, and some are. Flash your contactless bank card plug in and press start.

The slightly older NCC rapid chargers are basically that , but do not allow 2 rapid DC plug ins at one time.
The new BMW i3 driver didn’t know this and it’s not obvious. He also had a need to read the manual first problem in releasing the charging cable from the car.

The less said about the 11 kW AC posts which he also tried the better. One of those where you are required to set up an account, download the app, scan a qr code, make a payment plug in when the green light flashes but never before, pat your tummy rub your head and bring on the skating vicar.

Nail it with all the palaver the first time, and subsequent uses are more straightforward, but really quite off putting for the not so patient, and the newbie on their first charge up.

Neil

[myglaren]

Teslas, three of them.
VW ID4.
Kia thingy.
Unrecognised thing, badge on the bonnet, painted on in a rusty red colour a sort of wolfshead thing somewhere between a Tesla and a Cadillac badge. A bit like an Arcfox but fussier and not metal/3D.
Electric mini.
Toyota hybrid.

[CitroJim]

Despite standing by a busy roundabout for four hours this morning, I saw very few... A couple of Teslas and that was about it...

I saw, or rather heard, far more cars with 'pop bang' engine maps trying to impress the triathletes I was busy marshalling... They failed...

OT for this thread but generally, I must say it was an education to observe the traffic over an extended period... I learned a lot...