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Post by WDB on Sept 9, 2024 10:48:14 GMT
It’s certainly disconcerting, although iX has no true zero setting and the adaptive regen will cut in (prematurely, I tend to feel) to slow it before it gets too alarming. It’s definitely best as a motorway setting.
On reflection, engine braking is just another inefficiency thing that drivers have got used to. It may make for smoother driving than friction braking but it’s still converting kinetic energy to heat. It shouldn’t be a difficult engineering task to offer a regen mode that feels like top-gear engine braking on the motorway and, say, third gear in town. But it’s really just an adjustment for today’s (and yesterday’s 😛) drivers because future generations won’t know anything else.
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Post by EspadaIII on Oct 30, 2024 15:26:36 GMT
I emailed Hyundai Finance about extending the lease and the anwser is 'No'. No explanation, just a '...you will return the car on 2 May 2025...'. Odd really.
At least it has removed one option for me and I will now look at new EVs.... although... if the new Chartered Surveyor wants a new car, I quite like driving his boggy Seat Ibiza. It is 9 1/2 years old with 60,000 miles and has a willing engine with nice controls. I'm almost tempted to take it over
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Post by Rob on Oct 30, 2024 18:04:20 GMT
You'd save a fortune if you had the SEAT Ibiza if you still pay yourself an allowance for a car.
Odd they won't extend the lease. Is there an option to buy it? Although that will no doubt be more expensive than buying one elsewhere.
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Post by EspadaIII on Oct 30, 2024 19:12:51 GMT
Didn't ask about buying but can't imagine they would sell to me if they wouldn't extend the lease.
Son has decided that he likes the Ibiza after all and it suits his driving in and around London. So no change of car for him and I don't get to drive around in a great little cheap car to make fortune on car allowance...
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Post by WDB on Oct 31, 2024 7:46:03 GMT
Odd they won't extend the lease. Is there an option to buy it? The reason will be somewhere in the delightful bedtime read that IFRS 16. The lease will be defined as an operating lease, which allows Esp’s business to treat the payments as an operational expense. These don’t allow transfer of ownership (that would be a finance lease) and are restricted to a maximum 75 percent of the economic life of the asset, which may be why extending isn’t an option here. A car is typically considered to last 5 to 7 years, depending who’s using it. The lease company may use the shortest life for all its leases, in which case the limit would be 45 months. |
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 2, 2024 18:40:32 GMT
I decided that I would ring a VW dealer yesterday to arrange a test drive of an iD7.
Probably a little too large for my needs but reading all the reviews it is possibly the best sensibly priced Volkswagen group EV product they make. Having spoken to the dealers in Bury, Bolton, Manchester city centre and Stockport it appears that only the fleet centre in Stockport will deal with me and they cannot guarantee I can have a look at a car, let alone drive one, until the middle of December.
By contrast I am taking my car into the Hyundai dealership on Tuesday for an interim service. I rang them yesterday afternoon and spoke to the sales department asking if it was possible to arrange to have a look at an Ioniq 6 and arrange a test drive. The answer was swift and simple... Yes.
No wonder Volkswagen are closing factories making EVs if they are physically incapable of actually selling the cars they make.
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Post by WDB on Nov 2, 2024 21:42:24 GMT
Not a good look, is it? I’ve expressed my concern about Polestar but they do at least seem keen to get people test driving the cars they have. VW seems to have a real crisis of confidence going on.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 7, 2024 13:56:27 GMT
The search for the replacement continues.
Sat in an EV3 today. Decided that 130kW charging speed was not a game changer, given the range of 360 miles is likely to reduce the number of long journey charges so making little difference to the overall journey time.
Slight more utilitarian that the I5 but very nice. Being FWD the frunk is very modest but at least there is one and the boot is a good shape and deep. My only criticism is the lack of a storage box between the seats. It has a moveable shelf/arm rest and some space below but nothing closable other than the small glove box. This is a disappointment as I have always had arm rest storage and find it useful for charging cards, a small screwdriver, torch and other bits which I can't think of somewhere else to put. However I am going to take it on a test drive.
I also sat in an Ioniq 6 earlier this week and liked that. Somehow it is a lot cheaper than the I5 for a similar spec - I need to work that one out.
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