this one has car crash written all over it

good work.

forwarded to mrschrispy. she can get me one for Christmas while shes spending money on more bloody cushions and throws.

ditto on ignore all the rubbish in the chat side of things, just use it to park some shares/regular invest into a ETF of your choice.

I’ve been using it for nearly a year, I was on freetrade prior to that but T212 has a bit more to offer.

I like the fact my Cash ISA and Stocks ISA are in the same place so I can see the shared allowance.

Cash ISA is just money we’ve set aside for university and is sat there earning 5.1%.

Stocks ISA has some old shares I had kicking about and a couple of difference ETF based pies, the pies only contain 1 or 2 ETFs as you can autoinvest into them (dont think you can do that outside of a pie), I just stick 50-100 quid a month in and leave them to it.

The have a practice mode and I tried the day trading thing….very quickly lost 50% :D
Dicking around with individual shares is a mugs game, its just not worth the risk/stress IMO.

Niro went back on Monday, thought i’d check what we spend charging it at home. it’s around 400quid over 3 years maybe around for 20k miles.  not half bad

yup just tap and go….they wait to see if they actually do charge you (‘m still waiting for a booths charge to appear from 4 months ago)

Electroverse is bloody magic, just works (well it has so far)

I stopped taking sandwiches to work as I just nommed then before 11 and then had to get lunch anyway.

getting PTSD seeing this thread pop up, nearly 40k posts…..dark times.

Im still pretending its all gone away, it clearly hasnt :-(

whatgoesup has it IMO

destination charing is on our list of whats if its semi remote but Id bork at high rates that are just taking the pish.
would not expect it to be free but its would be a plus if it was.

realistically you are looking at big charge when they first arrive and tops ups over the week.

always worry about it but I comfortable with the fact I’m never going to be perfect, just need to keep trying to be a bit better.

Agree on the Niro, anything over 70 killed the range and it did over read the speed (Polestar speed is bang on GPS speed).

LOL – mrschrispy also struggles to plug in the car, its literally a 5 second job ffs, I just get a “the car needs charging” comments when she comes in.

There is also unnecessary stress about range, she’ll worry that she wont get to her mums and back, its a 30mile round trip when there is 100mile range left :-/

twist.
I went all in on Einhell and whilst they are perfectly functional I cant help feeling that Makita would have been the better choice.

personally unless a heatpump is not something I’d spec at additional cost but if it came with one I’d be happy to have it. sure it improves efficiency but that not really that important in everyday use when you can charge it every night, on longer journeys I’m happy to spend an extra couple of minutes charging (as I’m stopping anyway).

I’ve just used a IFA to consolidate and move mine into one place, I just dont have the time to sit and research and do it all myself.   According to the numbers it looks like the move should pay for itself in the first 6-9months. If turns out not to be the case I’ll bin them off.

52 now so I’m thinking I have 10years to throw as much as possible into pensions/ISAs/etc…

My new motor has a offer for a free Ohme charger or £900 electroverse credit, we already have pod point charger and are on the normal Go tariff (8.5p 12.30-5.30).

I’m not convinced I’d see the return on moving to Intelligent Go so I’m taking the £900 credit, it’ll make 100% stress free for the next 3 years.

@renton I went for a LRDM as LRSM with the pilot and plus packs are like rocking horse shit.
I did Manchester to Carlisle over the weekend and I reckon it’ll do around 220 on a long run.

not great but not the end of the world, we dont do a lot of long trips, it charges much faster than the niro and it’ll take us to suitable chargers (the Niro couldnt do this). Its a much niceer place to so I’m happy to take the hit.

I had my Niro (3 years ago now) in about 10 days

I’m 3 days in :-)

Bike in the with both wheels off (Sonder Camino) with loads of room to spare, reckon you’ll get a MTB with just the front off.

The new facelift single motors are really nice with more than enough power and better range than the older ones.

stick or twist?
you are holding a 10, stick

(and IMO…having the oldest and hence spending the least money marks you out at being the smartest)

AC charges are really only suitable as destination chargers, trying to use them part way through a journey is a fools errand.

3 years EV driving here and I’ve only ever had one issue charging.
Drove Manchester to Newcastle, had around an hours window to charge the car backup for the drive back the next day but really struggled. either all full, too slow or broke. Not really the world ending issue some make it out to be, frustrating yes but I managed.

like it or not they are going to be the future for most people.

after getting a bike written off and going through all the crap with them taking the ‘oh its second hand so worth 5 quid’ line I’ll be claiming on my home policy (new for old) and letting the insurance companies fight it out.
they’ll do everything in their power to screw her over.

meh, emails are so before covid, its all teams and slack these days

how did I miss this. just agreed to drive down to London with the missus this weekend :-(

Ive given my wifi exactly the same name as next doors just to mess with them.

The lack of V2L on the Polestar is the one thing that causing me to hold off getting one.
25k get you a lot of 2nd hand Polestar but an EV6 might be the more sensible option (coming from a eNiro)

what @llama said.

they love it when everyone fights/argues amongst themselves about who has it the worst.
35k-55k-75k….whatever, everyone thinks those above should be paying, its totally understandable but the ‘proper rich’ (however you want to define that) are hovering up assets. the entire system is designed to minimise the tax they pay on them which leads to them using the extra money they have hoovering up assets.

the slippery c-nut is sniffing around sunaks honours list isn’t he.
the little fella is so pathetic he just might put him on it

Having had the police take my bike camera and then proceed to break the SD card and ‘loose’ the footage (it involved someone running me over) I’d avoid letting that have it until I’d secured the footage myself.

If you just witness something and you have footage that can help I’d send them the relevant bits afterwards, not the whole SD card. If you are directly involved in something then this wouldnt be a good idea as it could be seen as obstruction of justice.

The Artemis rocket is getting bought asap (and getting added to my ever increasing built backlog)

I thrashed the balls off my yeti (1.4TSI 4×4) within hours of picking it up.
made sure it was fully warmed up and then went full on italian tune up on it.
In the 5 years we kept it for it never needed an oil top up, it was peachy.

I’ve a pretty good success rate with GPM, cheshire less so. they were more concerned about me clipping a hashed area than the guy that overtook and then came to a halt before pulling into his drive :-|

^^^ wot he said ^^^^

The niro tops out at 7kWh AC charging (which is pretty common) so no benefit of being on a 22kWh charger.

ah yes, type2. my bad.

as for the roof bars, just stick em on, doubt you’ll really notice until going long distance at speed.
ours are on all the time.

you dont need the kia charging card.

great cars, should come with a CSS cable (for plugging into the AC charges when you are out and about) and a granny charger for using a 3-pin (used mine maybe twice in 2.5 years).

There was a recall/maintenance update for swapping out the battery coolant a year back (done at my last service and covered by Kia) other than that its been faultless.

got for the 3 or 4, 2 is poverty spec and it’s lacking a couple of things IMO.

Similar situation when mine were toddlers on bikes. cars on the pavement were fair game for scrapy metal bits on the handle bars. even before that….if there was a car blocking the pavement I took that as a challenge to get the pram through the gap

personally I wouldnt be buying a PHEV with my own money, its the worst of both worlds.
either stick with ICE or go all in on BEV.

If you can charge at home thats where you’ll be charging most of the time, even charging out and about you just need to charge enough to get home.

my wife doesnt even like charging at home, she’s not worried about safety, she just cant be arsed plugging it in :\