Recent content by Steveml63

Thanks for the update! Small donation made.

Hi, We were in Las Vegas in February 2005 to attend an exhibition. Decided that me and the wife would take a helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon. The pilot was from Yorkshire and his sister was our solicitor’s secretary - in Newtown, mid-Wales! We landed on side of the canyon for a picnic and it...

As Fisker are possibly about to go bust and they do not actually manufacture the cars themselves (they are contract manufactured by Magna Steyr in Austria) - then I would be very wary of buying one of these. Warranty, after sales, spares and residual values will all become really tricky if...

Hi Saw this in Kolkata a few weeks back! Cheers Steve

Hi, Apart from rare & special sports cars - 99% of all cars sold in the Middle East are both petrol & have automatic transmissions. There are virtually no diesel cars sold in this region and also virtually no manual cars are sold here. Cheers Steve

So what - I don’t really care what other people drive - it is totally their choice. If somebody in central London can afford to drive (and insure!!) a Range Rover - good luck to them! We are not in the former Eastern bloc - waiting 10 years for our Trabant to arrive - we all have a choice, at...

I thought that this was supposed to be the “EV facts thread”! People are hiring the Hertz EVs in masses! They cost far less to maintain than their ICE cars! Slight bumps do not cause them to be written off! The main reason they are offloading them is that they bought them at the top of the...

The key point is whether you were happy with the price you paid - at the time you paid it! Of course - I would rather have paid 10K less!

I saw a good interview with the CEO of Hertz. They have no problem with EVs - but they do have a problem with their residual values & accident repair costs. We ordered our Tesla Model 3 in April 2022 and it was delivered in November 2022. In December - Tesla slashed the price to achieve year end...

I think that model is called a Tesla Model S Redneck

Thanks for the heads up! I have done quite a lot of research and have found non-EV tyres with same load, size & speed rating for around half the EV tyres price - for the Tesla. We only get rain for 3 or 4 days per year here and the roads are very smooth - so I don’t think we would see the...

No to all the above! But it’s very satisfying beating every other car from the lights in the Tesla Model 3 Performance (there are very few real world cars on the road that can beat a fast EV from a standstill - especially if they don’t use launch control) And it actually goes round corners at a...

We bought our two EVs with our own money. The Tesla is now 14 months old and has covered 34,411 trouble free kms- with zero servicing cost. Tyres are still 50% tread left and the only upcoming cost will be for a Tesla mobile service engineer to come to our place to change the cabin air filter...

EVs have very clever charging hardware & software (especially Teslas). On the NMC batteries when you charge to 80% - the battery management system charges and balances all the cells to 80% of their maximum capacity. If you charge to 100% regularly you will shorten the life of the battery pack...

Hi, Just checked the street view images of our UK house - they were taken 10 years apart in 2011 (when we were living there) and again in 2021 (when we had tenants). Quite a few differences for the “spot the difference” fans! Cheers Steve