The EV fact thread

[Steveml63]

Its not just about how careful a driver you arem. A radar-based Collision Avoidance system (automatic braking), when mandatory, will save your ar$e - literally, as it will prevent other drivers from rear-ending you when you're stopped at the lights. How can this be anything other than a good thing?

My wife has been saved twice now by the radar collision avoidance system fitted in her Mercedes ML63 AMG and later in her BMW X3M40i.
On both occasions she was driving at moderate safe speed in fog and on both occasions the cars braked as the radar had seen stationary in one case, and nearly stopped cars in her lane in the other case.
In the UAE, winter fog is totally different to what we get in the UK. You can be driving in sunshine one second and then drive into a virtual wall of fog the next.
The fog is much, much thicker than what we get in the UK and previously there was much worse compliance of people using lights and fog lights.
In the last two years, Abu Dhabi has fitted an amazing warning system on the motorways - every 100m or so, there is an led light panel on the crash barrier of the central reservation that lights up yellow in heavy fog and flashes red/blue if there is a problem ahead

 

[ALFAitalia]

Well I'm back.....I drove to Dobwalls, delivered the Tesla and collected the Focus...a quick look around Trago Mills, picked up a few bits and possibly the worlds biggest pasty, ate it, and drove back. No issues either way.
Tesla was an 85D....its was not quite fully charged...but showed a 260 mile range....208 miles later it showed an 83 mile range! Traffic was lighter than I expected so I was at or close to the speed limit mostly....but obviously not a lot of fast roads past Southampton.
Focus was a high mileage manual worth a few hundred quid and only used to get me back really.
Verdict....the Tesla was fine, quick.....and well that's it...a real one trick pony. Felt very heavy on the corners but still had a rather harder ride than my 212 Sport. Felt a bit wider than my E...but easy enough to judge where the corners are. On the subject of corners....it did not like then much...fine as a cruiser, if firm, but a long way from a Sport saloon. To sum up...pretty boring and far from a drivers car. Want to get from A to B cheaply then it's fine. Want any driver involvement then look elsewhere. It seems to have absorbed it's 200,000 miles well though... only the drivers seat showing any wear. White is not a sensible choice for a car seat and it seems to have become marked from wearing jeans etc. It' was an early one so the less said about panel gaps and interior quality the better!
Focus folding roof. Heavy , manual, slow for a 2.0l petrol, thirsty, roof worked! 200,000 miles, worth nothing, still more involving to drive than the Tesla...just....but more effort.
Nice day out though.
Beer o'clock !

 

[PXW]

Well I'm back.....I drove to Dobwalls, delivered the Tesla and collected the Focus...a quick look around Trago Mills, picked up a few bits and possibly the worlds biggest pasty, ate it, and drove back. No issues either way.
Tesla was an 85D....its was not quite fully charged...but showed a 260 mile range....208 miles later it showed an 83 mile range! Traffic was lighter than I expected so I was at or close to the speed limit mostly....but obviously not a lot of fast roads past Southampton.
Focus was a high mileage manual worth a few hundred quid and only used to get me back really.
Verdict....the Tesla was fine, quick.....and well that's it...a real one trick pony. Felt very heavy on the corners but still had a rather harder ride than my 212 Sport. Felt a bit wider than my E...but easy enough to judge where the corners are. On the subject of corners....it did not like then much...fine as a cruiser, if firm, but a long way from a Sport saloon. To sum up...pretty boring and far from a drivers car. Want to get from A to B cheaply then it's fine. Want any driver involvement then look elsewhere. It seems to have absorbed it's 200,000 miles well though... only the drivers seat showing any wear. White is not a sensible choice for a car seat and it seems to have become marked from wearing jeans etc. It' was an early one so the less said about panel gaps and interior quality the better!
Focus folding roof. Heavy , manual, slow for a 2.0l petrol, thirsty, roof worked! 200,000 miles, worth nothing, still more involving to drive than the Tesla...just....but more effort.
Nice day out though.
Beer o'clock !

But, but, but…that’s not possible…it was winter, and weather, and heaters, and that indicated 260 miles would clearly only have got you to the corner shop….

 

[markjay]

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[GrahamT]