Your next car, will it be electric?

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sweetsand said:

RichardD1970 said:

sweetsand said:

RichardD1970 said:

sweetsand said:

 Alternatively, if you like a car, an eltric one and want one with "dials" you could commission one.

HTH ATB
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Do you have any idea how much that would cost? It would be way out of even your budget.

You are making an assumption that is wrong as you do not know what my capacity is. To commission, ie have dials in place of a smart screen is relatively inexpensive compared to a whole car. Even whole car are not that expensive when compared with many Marques like Bentley, RR,  Ferraril, etc. It's all relative.
ATB
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You have no idea of the complexities of what you are proposing.

You are making and assumption that is wrong. Simply put, I do not need to know about the "complexties" etc as we have had a car commissioned years ago. Prices vary greatly and vary again based on what one is looking for and their budget. To get dials into a car into an ordinary car is no big deal
HTH

Well, I for one do not believe this to be true. You've been caught out in your own lie regarding beemer ownership so shall we give you the opptunity to prove us wrong? 
What vehicle did you commission? What where the changes from the normal vehicle and who carried them out? What was the price of said changes verus the standard vehicles price? 
Good luck answering those.

RichardD1970

sweetsand said:

To get dials into a car into an ordinary car is no big deal

But you are not on about an "ordinary car". Getting dials and switch work into an electric car that was never designed to carry such would be anything but "no big deal".

onlyfoolsandparking

EDIT: Neuralyser used, nothing to see here move along.

gzoom

DUTR said:

I like the Taycan and spec'd one up £157K, 

Why did you spec one up to £157k???!!
The 4S with larger battery is more than quick enough for public road, add on a few essentials options and you will still be south of £100k.

Compared to the 911 or Panemera I would say the Taycan is actually 'good value', especially when a Model S in similar spec is £80k+. Paying an extra £10-15k for Porsche legacy/build quality over Tesla in my book is pretty cheap premium.

Am pretty sure the Taycan will be our next car/EV purchase. Its a beautiful machine, and for not much more than what we paid for our Tesla. 

Yes you can go nuts with the options list, but you really don't need to. The base 4S really is a fantastic proposition in the EV market.

DUTR

gzoom said:

DUTR said:

I like the Taycan and spec'd one up £157K, 

Why did you spec one up to £157k???!!
The 4S with larger battery is more than quick enough for public road, add on a few essentials options and you will still be south of £100k.

Compared to the 911 or Panemera I would say the Taycan is actually 'good value', especially when a Model S in similar spec is £80k+. Paying an extra £10-15k for Porsche legacy/build quality over Tesla in my book is pretty cheap premium.

Am pretty sure the Taycan will be our next car/EV purchase. Its a beautiful machine, and for not much more than what we paid for our Tesla. 

Yes you can go nuts with the options list, but you really don't need to. The base 4S really is a fantastic proposition in the EV market.

At a quick glance , it's the only electric car I'd have, well sort of, I'm not in desperate desire for one, I'll prolly get an i3 as a toy (previously owned of course).

NaughtiusMaximus

If and when technology improves to give a REAL WORLD range of 400 miles and they have a purchase price comparable to the equivalent ICE/hybrid I'll seriously consider one.

motorguy

NaughtiusMaximus said:

If and when technology improves to give a REAL WORLD range of 400 miles and they have a purchase price comparable to the equivalent ICE/hybrid I'll seriously consider one.

You do more 400 miles a day on a regular basis then?

Perhaps electric isnt the car for you?

Doesnt mean it cant / wont work for most other people

DUTR

motorguy said:

NaughtiusMaximus said:

If and when technology improves to give a REAL WORLD range of 400 miles and they have a purchase price comparable to the equivalent ICE/hybrid I'll seriously consider one.

You do more 400 miles a day on a regular basis then?

Perhaps electric isnt the car for you?

Doesnt mean it cant / wont work for most other people

I was watching an article on youtube yesterday (that US mechanic guy James) , one of the things he pointed out was to keep the battery good for longer , not to charge it just after use! Surprising really, as if you went to town or just got home that's the time to charge it (me thinks) , also he mentioned rapid charging is not good either, there maybe some essence in that, if I quick charge my phone, yes it reaches max quickly , but doesn't seem to last as long per charge.

peter_the_piper

Apart from the times I use a car for holiday trips an electric car would be perfectly acceptable to me, apart from one major drawback, the ridiculously high purchase price .

NaughtiusMaximus

motorguy said:

You do more 400 miles a day on a regular basis then?

No but I do 300-350 often enough to need sufficient range to cover it plus a decent safety margin in case of delays/diversions.

Perhaps electric isn't the car for you?

No **** sherlock.

Doesnt mean it cant / wont work for most other people

I didn't suggest otherwise, but since you bought the subject up:

- Electric cars are not currently a practical option for the millions of people who don't have off street parking and therefore cannot realistically charge from home. 

- Range. The Kia eNiro has the best real world range of around 230-240 miles, less in cold weather. Since only an idiot would routinely run the range down to almost 0 between recharges that effectively limits you to around 200 miles. Add to that the fact it takes around an hour to fully charge an electric car compared to a few minutes to fill up a tank of petrol it's a huge obstacle if you do high miles.

- The big one, price. Even if you never cover long distances and can have a home charger, the purchase price of a new electric car is significantly more than the equivalent ICE vehicle.