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Jul 2020
1:16pm, 15 Jul 2020
11,528 posts
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larkim
Picking up Monday - the excitement builds!! Yesterday the engineer spent 3 hours clipping 26m of high load armoured cable to the house (!), the final section of the home charger installation happens on Saturday now (fingers crossed).
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Jul 2020
1:15pm, 20 Jul 2020
11,572 posts
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larkim
First drive done, very impressed. Lots to learn (I've never owned an auto-gearbox car before, so even that is "new" to me) but it drives nicely and pulls away from traffic lights in Sport mode at quite a rate 
Lots to take in and get used to on dials, screens, etc, but none of that really any different to any other car. Will charge up tonight and have more of a play, but no complaints so far.
And it's as quiet as anything, and just as pleasant to drive on the 30mph or motorway so far.
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Jul 2020
1:23pm, 20 Jul 2020
3,249 posts
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Bob!
Nice
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Jul 2020
1:36pm, 20 Jul 2020
35,649 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Very nice indeed.
Did you see the article that Rf_fozzy (I think) posted saying that in Germany they are effectively now "free" to lease because of the size of subsidies that German gov't are giving public to get them. The dealers can't shift them off the forecourt fast enough to meet demand! G
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Jul 2020
1:47pm, 20 Jul 2020
11,573 posts
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larkim
It really does need govts behind this, as I don't think there can be a rational car driver that wouldn't find that car as equally appealing as any petrol commuter. As I've said before, the anticipated residual values which are causing finance deals to be equally priced petrol vs electric, despite the "sticker price" of the electric being significantly higher, should encourage ownership too, though from reading around about public chargers if you can't charge at home as easily as we can then that infrastructure needs to improve if personally owned electric cars are expected to remain a "thing" for the next 20-30 years.
I just discovered that it's 0-62 is quicker than the original Golf GTI. Not that that's a quick car in today's standards, but compared to the 0-62 of my 1.1l 10 year old Panda it does move swiftly.
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Jul 2020
1:53pm, 20 Jul 2020
10,747 posts
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rf_fozzy
You get much higher torque from an electric motor than from an ICE.
Hence generally much faster acceleration.
(and personally owned cars will only be a thing for the next 15years )
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Jul 2020
3:25pm, 20 Jul 2020
8,797 posts
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simbil
Decent looking car.
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Jul 2020
3:40pm, 20 Jul 2020
203 posts
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ZenTaoPlurp
Congratulations larkim. I've been earnestly interested in electric cars since Tesla was just a small US company that few knew about. Prices and procrastination mean that I still haven't taken the plunge. But you've gone and done it in an impressive whoosh. More reports about how you're getting on with it would be brilliant.
And I'm not just here looking for a badge, I'm bigger than that. Honest.
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Jul 2020
12:56pm, 22 Jul 2020
11,576 posts
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larkim
After 48 hours, the easiest thing I can report is that the fact that it is electric is in many ways neither here nor there. It starts, it drives, it gets me to work, and it gets me back home again. It doesn't look wierd, and inside it all feels entirely normal. The biggest differences for me personally are just a) auto gearbox and b) it's a step up in overall car "niceness" compared to usual.
Charged it up on the night we got it, done 65m of commuting (1.5 days) and it is showing as having 105 miles of range left. Beyond the price, I can't see any good reason why a driver would even care whether they had a petrol, diesel or electric car in this model.
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Jul 2020
1:00pm, 22 Jul 2020
35,662 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
You haven't tried charging anywhere else yet? When would you expect that you would need to charge at a location away from your house? Presumably, not until you have to do a single journey of more than 150 miles or so (to recharge to get home)?
How easy is it recharging at home? Do you just get into the habit of plugging it in again as soon as you park in drive / get out of car? G
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