So, as July moves on I begin to think of UB40, I’ve had my ID3 for about a year and it’s been in the VW garage for a little over a month, so yes that is 10% of my ownership, a one in ten! So I sympathise with the song I am a one inContinue reading “I Am a One in Ten”
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Warp Speed
Now the car is in the garage, everything should move quickly and smoothly: Operation Warp Speed! —Hello, Mr Dunleavy? —Yes —Everything here is under control. Now I am beginning to worry —We need a special tool to analyse the car and we’ve found one…in Bordeaux. Okay So two weeks later the tool turns up, soContinue reading “Warp Speed”
Take me to the garage
So suddenly on the way back from a trip my ID3 seemed to be drinking kWs and then the car told me to take it to my garage. Well of course the first thing I did was to return home and call my insurance (VW ASSISTANCE) who kindly gave me a reference number and toldContinue reading “Take me to the garage”
It’s not what you do it’s the size that counts!
Hello again, back with more Electric car. Wisdom. You all remember the lying WLTP test? Well now I can Announce The Pat method. Don’t go believing any old nonsense, It is what you’ve got not the way that you do it. Well my ID3 is given as being capable of 425 Kms WLTP. But everyoneContinue reading “It’s not what you do it’s the size that counts!”
Three Blind Mice
Half a Sixpence
Out and about again, after the quarantine it nearly feels normal. Nipped out for a coffee (didn’t fancy a Nescafé), turned the corner and there was the bin van. Should I wait half an hour or try to turn in this narrow street? The salesman had mentioned the turning circle it was the same asContinue reading “Half a Sixpence”
Sweating Buckets
25C before 10am, Bristol or Benidorm? Right, Bristol. This has been super fortuitous because I’ve sort of understood the range envy thing……261 Kms left and I’m asking myself should I go for aircon or should I go for an extra 20Kms range? At this temperature it’s a no brainer and should stay that way. I’mContinue reading “Sweating Buckets”
Please Release me Let me go
Day 10, on the starting blocks waiting for day 8 test results , about to rediscover the ID3. Has some of the worry about range rubbed off? My 6 year old grand son told me not to worry if I run out of electricity, I can always push it to a petrol garage. Have beenContinue reading “Please Release me Let me go”
How Small is the World
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”
Just got an ID3 