CPS AC posts usually charge from both sockets. Like Edukator saya did you use the correct sequence? For CPS AC posts you activate the post with the RFID or app then plug the car in.

If you want some really good seafood I can recommend Fishers in Tower Street opposite the Malmaison otherwise there’s not really that much in Leith other than a few hipster cafes and it appears to be massively overhyped.

Oh, and I’ve just discovered due to my rural scottish location I’m eligible for grants of £400 off the cost of a charger at home

Having just come back from holiday on the coast of Argyll and seen quite a few properties with EVs and home chargers I realised EV is a great option in places like this where the nearest petrol station could be 20 miles away and would require a special trip to fill up vs always having a full battery in the morning.

MG are now saying their traction batteries are warrantied for 10 years in Thailand therefore they must expect them to last a lot longer than that. Lets see if this is rolled out world wide.

@roverpig looks like you have the perfect use case for an EV. Like Edukator said current ICE vehicles will have the same issues with technology as EVs if not more so and here I’m thinking of hybrids. I’ll add the Nissan Leaf to the list of older EVs still getting support and there are also specialists out there that can swap faulty battery modules or even replace batteries.

This spring and summer I’ve been using paraffin wax bought off ebay applied using a small wax pot used for hair removal. Nitro cellulose thinners are great for removing the old lube from your chain, cassette and chainrings before wax application.

So far its been great. Lovely doing a bit of bike maintenance and not being instantly covered in black crap from the chain. I bought a second chain and am rotating them. So far I haven’t had to clean a chain before re-applicaiton of wax but if you need to then heating it in boiling water will get the old wax and dirt off. Just make sure its properly dry before re-waxing.

Of course real test will be how well it survives Autumn and Winter.

Only downside I’m finding is the barge like turning circle means frequent comedy multipoint turns

Slight exaggeration there but I know what you mean. There’s no reason for a RWD car to have such a large turning circle. I reckon Tesla use the steering rack from the AWD cars on the RWD to shave some costs.

I know NMC can take 100% but its recommended not to charge it to this level on a regular basis even on a home fast charger and yes no one in their right mind charges to 100% on a rapid unless they’re having a long lunch. Sure prior to a road trip we all charge to 100% but for regular day to day motoring my MY RWD has effectively the same battery capacity as the NMC equipped Teslas.

I’m currently weighing up whether or not there is any value on going for the LR over the RWD

I know AWD vs RWD is better traction which is nice but not a deal breaker. The RWD has no fog lights, and a slower max charge rate, is there anything else I’m missing here?? I test drove the LR last week, not driven the RWD.

RWD Model Y driver here. The RWD has an LFP battery which means Tesla recommend it should be routinely charged to 100% unlike the NMC battery in the other Model Ys which they recommend charging to 80% normally. This means I set off with just as much charge as LR drivers. Highest charge power I’ve seen is 175kW which for all practical purposes is the same as the 250kW max of the LR especially given the excellence of the Supercharger network. Yes the LR will be a bit faster but the RWD gets to 60 mph in 6.5 sec and tops out at 135mph which as fast enough I’d say.

On road trips I normally stop for a charge at 150-200 miles which in the UK is about 3 hrs motoring which is also about the max range of my bladder and stomach.

Unlike English, every Welsh word is spelled exactly as pronounced.

I think you are confusing it with German which has phoenetic pronounciation.

Number one item on the King’s Speech should have been repealing the 2023 Public Order Act. The fact it wasn’t makes me believe labour are part of the same corrupt oligarchy the Tories are.

Oh and if this issue wasn’t so important I’d say don’t give IRC the oxygen of clicks.

Over the last 14k miles my Tesla Model Y has cost 5.9p a mile for electricity. That’s 65% home charging (7.5p per kWh or free solar), 28% Tesla Superchargers and 7% other charging networks.

Servicing costs have been zero but I just paid to have the tyres rotated. Reckon I’ll get low 20k miles out of them so you can tell the performance has been used. Insurance is another story working out around £1k a year with a clean licence. Expensive yes but probably on par with a similar sized and specced ICE vehicle that has the same performance.

The underground garage gets bigger!

Worth mentioning that ChargePlace Scotland recently partnered with Electroverse so for those of us EV drivers making occasional trips to Scotland there’s now no need to pay a tenner for the CPS RFID card. Might still be worth getting the CPS card if you are in Scotland regularly as it seems to be a bit cheaper than using Electroverse, at least on fast chargers.

As CPS is administered by SWARCO it seems that all SWARCO operated chargers like EVolt are now also on Electroverse.

Rory Reid recently drove a 430,000 mile Tesla Model, Y still on its original battery, until it ran out of juice. The car stopped about 10 feet from the charger. Fortunately a helpful Tesla driver showed him how to put the Model S into tow mode and they pushed it onto the charger.

Well deserved but at least 10 years too late.

Stop comparing the thousands of years of immigration to what’s happened recently, not even remotely comparable.

This is correct and since Brexit it’s all government controlled.

https://search.app.goo.gl/5Rb5RA5

Also the charger in Mallaig, an ancient battered thing only works with the RFID card and not the app at all

I know you left it too late to get a card but I did say a decent CPS experience requires the RFID card.

They’re all from Charge Place Scotland – what do I need to know about them? I presume it’s app based.

There is a ChargePlace Scotland App but its unreliable, shonky and requires mobile signal which can be a problem in the Highlands. Just get a ChargePlace Scotland RFID card which will start any old crappy legacy CPS charger (and most CPS chargers are crappy legacy). It really does transform the CPS charging experience.

Well done. The organisers did well to pick a route without too much climbing. Cotswolds climbs can be brutal.

Its been 10 years since I last did La Marmotte so can’t help with the insurance but good luck and enjoy it. Its a great event.

So please can you tell me that doesn’t have to be so, if we aren’t concerned about squeezing every last penny of savings out of charging, can charging be simple and easy?

It doesn’t. Just stick to the large, reliable networks like Osprey, Instavolt, Fastned, MFG, Gridserve and Applegreen. They all take normal contactless payment. I’d almost add Ionity to that list but their older chargers don’t have contactless but Ionity accept Electroverse so get yourself an Electroverse card. I’d say with those networks you can get to just about anywhere in the UK. Or just get a Tesla ;-)

These aren’t really necessary unless you are subscribed to a scheme and want to pay monthly to get cheaper rates, IME. Some small providers have 7kW chargers at destinations e.g. the hotel you want to stay at or whatever, and these often don’t take contactless so you need an app or an RFID card.

The only RFID card I’d consider to be necessary is the ChargePlace Scotland one as its the largest network in Scotland and has a lot of legacy chargers in areas with poor mobile signal where their, rather flakey, mobile app may not work. Of course its only useful if you live in Scotland or travel there reasonably often.

I’ve only heard good things about it, but my only concern is , like many other EV’s, everything runs off the single screen.

It really doesn’t. The XE30 has the full compliment of steering column stalks and steering wheel switches. Sure you’ll have to look slightly down and to the left to check your speed but that took me about 5 mins to get used to in my Tesla. Looking at the XE30 interior pics on Volvo’s website I notice that it has shortcuts on the screen for the HVAC. It also probably has voice control.

Dunno what you guys are setting the car to 22 for, that’s roasting hot. Did a 600 km round trip this weekend in t-shirt/jeans at 18 degrees. Lovely comfortable drive.

We’re all different. Our house and car thermostats are set to 21°C

I’d also reiterate what Bensales said about the supercharger network, it’s not as big deal as it was 4+ years ago and will continue to be less so.

Maybe not but for me coming from using the rest of the public network for 2 years to using the Supercharger network for the last year its been a revelation. Always a working charger available, mostly high power and plug and charge. Charger anxiety gone. Also worth bearing in mind that for Tesla drivers the Supercharger network is getting on for half the price of the other networks. In the last year my Supercharging has been done between 33p to 55p per kWh.

M3 auto full beam and auto wipers don’t work very well,

My Model Y has just received the OTA which enables matrix headlights. Haven’t had a chance to try it yet but initial reports from other Tesla drivers are encouraging. As for the wipers my car must be special because I’ve never had a problem with them.

It’s disgusting. 15:1 ratio.

The AI didn’t decide the collateral damage ratio that was a human input.

Those days are still here.

Well maybe in France. My vehicle doesn’t expend 10% of its power maintaining cabin temp but even if it did since I spend about 30 mins charging on a long run I’d be happy to spend 3 mins more on the charger so i don’t have to wear a coat and hat.

Tesla have removed ultrasonic parking sensors now, it’s done purely by vision. Supposedly it’s as good as ultrasonics, but given the vision-based systems in mine had trouble seeing rain and activating the windscreen wipers, or saw shadows on the motorway and thought “LORRY” and panic braked on adaptive cruise, I’d be a tad reluctant to trust it.

Its not bad since they improved it from the initial embarassingly bad version but its not as good as the 360 degree camera view in the likes of a Nissan Leaf. Personally I use a combo of mirrors and rear view camera when parking my Model Y with the occasional glance at the park assist graphics.

Are there still huge queues at those as they are cheaper and people will wait for hours to save a few quid?

Have had to queue for a Supercharger twice in over a year of driving a Tesla all over the UK. Longest was 5 mins at Tebay Services on an August bank holiday Sunday at lunch time when everyone was piling in for their roast lunches.

My clothing habits have changed since driving an EV, they’re similar to when I had an open top car. I dress for the weather outside and take nothing off when I get in the car. I then use the heater on the lowest setting that stops the screen misting/freezing.

Those days are long over. Get yourself a decent EV and lose the hair shirt.

I’ve an ID.4 and drive one pedal/regen all the time and like it, except at very slow speeds the friction brake comes in very jarringly when lightly pressing the pedal to stop

I’ve been a passenger in an ID4 and Skoda Enyak and noticed that both cars had problems coming to a smooth stop.

FWIW I’ve found the Tesla one pedal driving to be perfectly calibrated and much better than the Kia/Hyundai system which wouldn’t bring the car to a stop without application of the left hand steering column paddle. The Nissan Leaf one pedal mode is pretty good as well.

If Scotland ever achieves independence then Restless Natives should be the national anthem.

Its also a great film

Anyway: as an EV newbie – what do I need to know about one big trip. Do I need to preregister for certain charging apps?

As you seem to be based in Scotland I’d recommend setting up a ChargePlace Scotland account and getting their RFID card. Its the biggest network in Scotland but lots of legacy chargers without contactless located in dodgy mobile reception areas.

Check out where the Tesla open for all chargers are. They are usually cheaper than others.

Yes you can but be aware that unless the Supercharger uses the new V4 chargers with the longer cable you’ll have difficulty plugging in the Honda using V2 or V3 chargers which have very short cables designed for Teslas which have the charge port on the left rear.

It’s weird how there is a thread about diesel emissions compensation being nonsense as it is rubbish as no-one has suffered, and this thread where VW is Evil Inc and are actually murdering people.

Its not weird. The posters in the other thread are wrong.

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-dieselgate-deaths-europe-year.html

5,000 people in Europe alone. Its just that we’ll never know their names.

What’s changed, have materials got better, less salt on roads, something else?

Back in the days when tetraethyl lead was added to petrol they also added dichloroethane or dibromoethane to scavenge lead oxide deposits from the engine. These additives broke down in the engine to produce hydrochloric acid or hydrobromic acid which contributed to exhaust corrosion.

For reasons I still can’t fathom there’s so much utter bollocks on here about Teslas.

Its because some people hate Musk so try to influence others not to buy the product by criticising it in any way they can think of including utter bollocks. People don’t realise that without Tesla EVs would be 10 years behind where they are now. Politicians are OK to ban ICE and set ZEV mandates despite the foot dragging and negative lobbying from legacy OEMs because Tesla have proved EVs are a practical proposition.

What they did was so high profile their only option is to be whiter than white from now on.

VAG are repeat offenders so I’m going to bookmark this one.

VW is just business innit,

Ah I see. So that makes all the illegal activity OK then.

So wait, all VW is culpable for the emissions scandal but Musk is the only **** in Tesla?

Musk, not any other Tesla board member or employee, was mentioned by name as the reason the poster was reluctant to consider another Tesla. I’m sure the % of a$$holes in Tesla reflects the % of them in the population. I simply questioned why he has a problem with Musk when he is happy to consider a car from a company that has cheated emissions regs, the increased emissions from those vehicles statistically having killed thousands of people. And yes VW as a company were held responsible and fined billions with multiple executives receiving prison sentences which to me points to institutionalised corruption. Lets also remember that VW have been fined multimillions twice by the EU for forming a cartel with BMW and Daimler to fix the price of steel and to delay the deployment of emssions reducing technologies. Personally speaking VAG will never receive another penny from me.

Much that I hate His Muskiness, Tesla seems to have the powertrain and battery sorted.

Thing to remember is Tesla has over 140,000 employees and Elon Musk is just one of them. Clearly you think he is the devil incarnate if you are prepared to consider cars from an OEM that has actually killed people due to cheating emissions regs.