Today's drive

I've looked at a couple of cars from one manufacturer who pledged a 180kph/112mph cap, the paperwork says different still showing 260kph.

It appears, for some markets, the limiter is being ignored if it hits sales.

I've written before NL has reduced the daytime speed limit on motorways to 100kph between 6am and 7pm lifting it back to 120 or 130 at night. I'm not sure if that will work in D if it impacts industries ability to function with sales folks driving between Düsseldorf or Hamburg and Berlin, Munich or Stuttgart. No doubt there will be an experiment which will be put in place and political pressure will be applied to remove it.

Edit: Just like the Tesla S model around 8 years ago the I5 is NOW quite the popular choice on my commute to work. Don't notice many EV6 though. Maybe Hyundai are doing better deals than KIA or the I5 has a USP missing from the EV6.

So home now having driven about 370 miles today. I know that in various ICE cars past and present around the Pub that would not even be a tank of fuel, but cruising at an indicated 75mph on the radar cruise control, that translates to about 230 miles per 90% charge. That's about 66kWh and therefore 3.5 miles/kWh.

Today I charged up in Bodmin and then at Gloucester Services. Gloucester Services are lovely and much much nicer that the usual rubbish. Branded Westmoreland, I suspect they are part of the Tebay Group?? Very smart, real food, no chains and excellent charging facilities.

The charge speed of the I5 is welcome. I got 175kWh yesterday, 140kWh and 150kWh today. The e-Niro owner next to me could only marvel at how quickly I added miles. A maximum charge speed of less than 100kW is painful to watch.

I concur with Dubya.. The 'economy' doesn't take too much of a dive after 65mph until you get towards 80mph. The difference in indicated range between a 65mph cruise and 75mph is not a large as I would have expected. Probably lose about 10%

Counterintuitive, innit, because the EV6 looks like the bigger, longer family car, so my assumption is greater legroom and more boot space than the I5.  Whaddaya know.

It's like comparing broadband speeds. Gigabit is nice but who actually needs it ? No good the car telling you its full and you're about to incur excess parking charges for hogging a charger mid-stream.

Doesn’t really happen that way, though, given the usual tail-off above 80 percent. You’d have to be pretty inattentive (or inexperienced) to let it overrun.

This was mine at an Ionity 150, suggesting the car rather than the charger applied the throttle at 80 percent. 

Esp has far more experience of DC charging than me — I’ve done it maybe a dozen times to three cars over seven years — so I can only guess what was restricting that post on that day before it reached 80 per cent. I used exactly the same one a week before and it behaved similarly, as did the Gridserve 150 at East Midlands.

But, as we’ve been saying for ages, efficiency is what really matters, because that’s what turns the input of percentage or kWh into the useful outcome of travelling distance. A 280Wh/km Etron or a 260Wh iPace will take a lot longer to achieve that Esp’s 170Wh Ioniq 5 or even my 200Wh iX, especially if the promise of superfast charging rates is seldom delivered in full.

I would really like to do that. I wonder if they rent EVs?  Like I did last year from Hertz at Newquay?  And where did all those Polestars go?