Great to hear about the Hyundai kona @mikelow . We are seriously thinking of moving our Ford on after 8 years and the kona looks about the best bet. It is not too big and there are a few secondhand available at around the £20 k mark in our local dealership. I also had a good experience with some senior Hyundai managers over from Korea who had some very progressive attitudes about the company and it’s values.
EV Owners Thread
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We've had an EV as our main family car before our daughter was born (she is now 7). I've 'enjoyed' real range anxiety in a 24kWh Leaf on the A14 in torrential rain, been in an RTA bad enough to write off a brand new £70k Tesla, and this summer took the entire extended family of 6 up the Stelvio pass in our EV having driven there from Leicester.
I have some real world experience of EVs
Eh?
You never change the temperature in your car?!
I prefer to do that by twirling a simple knob than poking at a screen.
Each to their own, but I’ve had a few pals with Teslas who dislike that (& grumble a lot about dodgy autowipers too 🤷♂️). Personal preferences are personal, I guess.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
We've had an EV as our main family car before our daughter was born (she is now 7). I've 'enjoyed' real range anxiety in a 24kWh Leaf on the A14 in torrential rain, been in an RTA bad enough to write off a brand new £70k Tesla, and this summer took the entire extended family of 6 up the Stelvio pass in our EV having driven there from Leicester.
I have some real world experience of EVs
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Sorry, what??
You *drove* up the *Stelvio* ???
Uncivilised.
What next, driving round the Roubaix velodrome???
lazybloke
Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Thermostat is for air temp. Sunlight adds radiant heat, which varies with every bend (angle of incidence), variations in cloud cover, and time of day. What seemed a good temp, suddenly isn't.
That's what visors are for. If you set the climate to auto, it will ramp up fan speed and increase or decrease temp to maintain preset temperature
We will have to politely disagree on how we manage car temperature.
Lowering the visor makes zero noticeable difference to any car temperature I’ve been in…..& I will often nudge it up or down a little. On a hot day, I will want a blast of hot air to my face first, then adjust to go to that +screen+legs. All a massive faff stabbing at a screen, especially if on the move.
If you never change yours, then you were built for a screen-only Tesla 💪
🤷♂️
cougie uk
Guru
I'm not sure my visor is like yours?
It blocks glaring sunlight on my leaf.
How does it work in yours?
When driving down a road when the sun is coming in from the drivers window or directly in front, the radiant heat can be intense. Visor shields you from that increase in skin temperature. Cars climate controls overall temperature 🌡️🌡️
You don't need to touch the screen to change climate control settings on any Tesla if you didn't want to.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
We have always used climate control like you, I thought (mistakenly I now gather) that every one did.
For sure CC can maintain a dialed-in temperature pretty much ad-infinitum.
Get into a car feeling hot and sweaty after a long walk though, and suddenly that comfortable 20C you set several weeks/months ago is not so attractive.
Without getting too distracted on CC per se, the new VW chief has mandated a move away from touch controls for certain functions - general feedback being that they are fiddly, difficult to use accurately and require more distraction time to simple rotaries and buttons. Maybe other manufacturers will follow suit?
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
We've had an EV as our main family car before our daughter was born (she is now 7). I've 'enjoyed' real range anxiety in a 24kWh Leaf on the A14 in torrential rain, been in an RTA bad enough to write off a brand new £70k Tesla, and this summer took the entire extended family of 6 up the Stelvio pass in our EV having driven there from Leicester.
I have some real world experience of EVs
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The real reason for having a boot becomes apparent - noisey buggers aren't they.
Presumably because the VW climate controls are such a pile of shoot.
Rocky
Hello decadence
I find that the climate controls on my ID3 work fine, are easy to access and adjust and the operation is fairly intuitive (press red for warmer and blue for colder). I've no problems with them......somewhat easier to operate than on my previous EV, a Leaf.
I'm guessing operability is like beauty....in the eye of the beholder.
I'm guessing operability is like beauty....in the eye of the beholder.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
No idea - only ever had dials/buttons.
