GM cancelled the EV1 program at the turn of the century, but the world has become so small that Donald Lasell, one of my contacts, used to drive one. So here’s Donald and his EV1 Donald drove one for two years back in 1998-2000, mainly in Michigan, putting about 35,000 miles on it one ofContinue reading “How Small is the World”
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Hello Darkness my Old Friend
The Prisoner
So fourth day of really useful quarantine, coming from a country with ten times less cases than the UK! Helicopter hovering above the house, maybe Test and Trace are digging deep So Amazon, bless their little cotton socks came up trumps with the adapter and the car is now trickle charging from an ordinary houseContinue reading “The Prisoner”
Changing Countries? VW’s got your back? Maybe not…
So yesterday I told you how I was going to trickle charge my French ID3 from my English holiday address…….I mean this has to be standard, I could put “English” diesel in my French Qashqai.
Piece Of Cake…….maybe
So back to the one thing that has been in my mind every time I’ve used the car so far, getting elec-trickery into it. Why the pictures of charging stations? Well we’re into day 3 of the quarantine and the car is resting. But we’ve given ourselves a real challenge we’re going to try toContinue reading “Piece Of Cake…….maybe”
The Benefits of Quarantine
We were getting ahead of the curve, I’d signed for 25000Kms per year and after the first nine days (novelty I guess) we’d already more than a 1000 on the clock. No panic, GB to the rescue. We have to quarantine for 10 days so this month will be well within the Kms limit includingContinue reading “The Benefits of Quarantine”
Blighty
End of first week, now the real test: off to Blighty. Charged the car to 100% at work, only 360Kms shown on the screen. Far from the WLTP 425Kms…..My VW salesman tells me that this is predicted based on my driving to date. Who am I Jacky Ickx Or something? Then I remembered there areContinue reading “Blighty”
Could Have Done Better!
We’ll talk through the driving experience (positive) tomorrow, let’s talk about what could have been done better in the car purchasing loop. Sat in the car in the showroom ready to go, to be honest we were delayed by my insurance certificate, we looked over the car and saw that since my Qashqai, the USBContinue reading “Could Have Done Better!”
Thanks MAC
Well yesterday we’d talked about the ID3 range. So now down to hard tacks. How much was this thing going to cost me? The salesman, good at his job steered me upwind here. “Do you know how many Kms you’ll do in a year?” And as it happens, I do, quite a few actually, 25000Continue reading “Thanks MAC”
Diesel Gate: Has it got the range
In this first half of 2021, the elctric cars are extending their ranges, and the VW ID3 caught my eye, 425 Kms WLTP, for the 58KW version, now that is beginning to look like a car’s range and not that of a milk float. But it was still a bit pricey, or was it? SoContinue reading “Diesel Gate: Has it got the range”
Just got an ID3 