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[TheBoy]

Just dumped the French jalopy.  I'd forgotten how bad those gearboxes were in those, despite having a similar car only in June, and bro having this very same car in June - what's the chances!

I note on the sort of French car forums our Albs likes to frequent, they rave about this gearbox, saying how sometimes you barely feel it change .

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

 

[Viral_Jim]

The cottage had it's own electric charging point (7KW).This cost 30p per KW which I think reasonable. The Jaaaaag managed 2.95 miles per KW so not bad considering we used the M1, M69, M6, and M42, which f*ucks the range.

30p is about as good as it gets outside the home I would have thought.

We paid 50p/kwh in Winchester which, for rapid charging is pretty cheap and I didn't mind paying it as the place was efficient, much nicer than any motorway services and clearly cost a shed load to build. Also, considering 2/3 of the journey was done on home electric, it only works out to 7p/mile for the trip, or the equivalent of 94mpg on diesel. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The cottage had it's own electric charging point (7KW).This cost 30p per KW which I think reasonable. The Jaaaaag managed 2.95 miles per KW so not bad considering we used the M1, M69, M6, and M42, which f*ucks the range.

30p is about as good as it gets outside the home I would have thought.

We paid 50p/kwh in Winchester which, for rapid charging is pretty cheap and I didn't mind paying it as the place was efficient, much nicer than any motorway services and clearly cost a shed load to build. Also, considering 2/3 of the journey was done on home electric, it only works out to 7p/mile for the trip, or the equivalent of 94mpg on diesel. 

Yep...I think so.

Up to this point the car had never been charged away from home. Charge speed is only 100 Kw so quite slow by the standards of 2025, with even cars like the mew MG IM5 able to charge at 400Kw.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It's the way they just stand there looking at you

Had similar with a Moose in Canada before - on a gravel road at about 70 MPH. Made me clench a bit.

They should bottle it and sell it as an instant cure for constipation.

[BazaJT]

Cleaned and resoldered all connections in throttle body of my V70 to cure a surging revs issue ahead of its M.o.T tomorrow.

[Viral_Jim]

Yep...I think so.

Up to this point the car had never been charged away from home. Charge speed is only 100 Kw so quite slow by the standards of 2025, with even cars like the mew MG IM5 able to charge at 400Kw.

Tbh, I think 250-300kw should be enough, certainly in Europe - that's roughly 15-20 miles a minute. So 5 mins to go inside and have a pee, then walk back to it and that's 90 miles. A few more mins in line for a coffee and that's 150. Add that to the 250-300 miles these cars will do to start with and you have got >400miles range with one 10 minute stop.

That's easily 6hrs driving in europe and will be more than 99% of people will want to do on 99% of days.   

For me the big issue really is charger availability. Places like I stopped at and Tesla superchargers have it right 15-20 chargers at a minimum, with more at big hubs. I don't mind stopping for a 15min charge, what I don't want to do is queue for a charger then have to charge. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Yep...I think so.

Up to this point the car had never been charged away from home. Charge speed is only 100 Kw so quite slow by the standards of 2025, with even cars like the mew MG IM5 able to charge at 400Kw.

Tbh, I think 250-300kw should be enough, certainly in Europe - that's roughly 15-20 miles a minute. So 5 mins to go inside and have a pee, then walk back to it and that's 90 miles. A few more mins in line for a coffee and that's 150. Add that to the 250-300 miles these cars will do to start with and you have got >400miles range with one 10 minute stop.

That's easily 6hrs driving in europe and will be more than 99% of people will want to do on 99% of days.   

For me the big issue really is charger availability. Places like I stopped at and Tesla superchargers have it right 15-20 chargers at a minimum, with more at big hubs. I don't mind stopping for a 15min charge, what I don't want to do is queue for a charger then have to charge. 

Yep....always best to charge at home whenever possible.

Broken chargers are another thing that can boil our piss.

Can non-Tesla owners use Tesla chargers?

[STEMO]

Yep...I think so.

Up to this point the car had never been charged away from home. Charge speed is only 100 Kw so quite slow by the standards of 2025, with even cars like the mew MG IM5 able to charge at 400Kw.

Tbh, I think 250-300kw should be enough, certainly in Europe - that's roughly 15-20 miles a minute. So 5 mins to go inside and have a pee, then walk back to it and that's 90 miles. A few more mins in line for a coffee and that's 150. Add that to the 250-300 miles these cars will do to start with and you have got >400miles range with one 10 minute stop.

That's easily 6hrs driving in europe and will be more than 99% of people will want to do on 99% of days.   

For me the big issue really is charger availability. Places like I stopped at and Tesla superchargers have it right 15-20 chargers at a minimum, with more at big hubs. I don't mind stopping for a 15min charge, what I don't want to do is queue for a charger then have to charge. 

Yep....always best to charge at home whenever possible.

Broken chargers are another thing that can boil our piss.

Can non-Tesla owners use Tesla chargers?

Listen to yourself. Not long ago you wouldn't have been seen dead in a scalextric, now you post almost every day about how wonderful they are.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

This. ^. 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Yep....always best to charge at home whenever possible.

Broken chargers are another thing that can boil our piss.

Can non-Tesla owners use Tesla chargers?

Yes, you need to use the Tesla charge app (yes, yet another bloody charge network app!)

[Viral_Jim]

I think some of the more popular ones are Tesla only, but the app filters these out 

Tesla drivers get cheaper rates, but even non-tesla drivers pay a pretty low rate