Car (or bike) Chat!

[dave2010]

Update on public EV chargers in Scotland.

Very limited success. A few days ago - 1 out of 1. Yesterday 1 out of 4. Plus a conversation by one charger at which someone else said he'd never managed to get a ChargePlace Scotland charger to work - certainly not with a phone app.

The one success was a fast charger - notionally 30p per kWh - but the numbers didn't quite work out. Claimed output was 10 kWh, but £3.58 posted to credit card account. Another charger - Osprey - would have been 40p per unit (nominal) but didn't work. Yet another charger should have been free with a BP card, but sadly the genius who designed the parking space didn't allow enough space to get the car in together with the cable - not totally unusual - and worse than that we never found out whether it would have worked or not as some "person" with a hybrid car had not only parked in the EV space, but managed to park so badly that there was no way that anyone with an EV would ever be able to get into the space. Oh - there was another charger which required cable connection - but that just didn't work.

So on one day we got 100% success - while another day we were down to around 20%. The people who design charger spaces don't seem to realise that many cars (stupidly IMO) have the charging point in roughly the same place that a petrol filler cap would be on a petrol car, and then put the chargers at right angles to the road way, so that reversing in is necessary. It's not so bad in public car parks if there is enough space allocated, but on public roads this is a real hazard. It doesn't even help so much for the (more sensible) cars which have front connection points, as then the driver may have to reverse back into traffic to leave.

[Marco]

Jeez... Who could be bothered with all that pish?

Life's too short... Give it up and stick with a combustion engine!

Marco.

[Marco]

I was impressed with the seat massage. Damn good

Quality. I believe that the 'SE' version gives you a blowjob, too!

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

Quality. I believe that the 'SE' version gives you a blowjob, too!

Marco.

The 'SE' will get you started, but if you want a happy ending you need to shell out for their flagship 'SEX' model

[struth]

Currently the qashqai is top of my list. (a fairly short list) if i could get an X1 it might supercede it tho, but edinburgh bmw dont seem to be interested in business.

[CageyH]

Update on public EV chargers in Scotland.

Very limited success. A few days ago - 1 out of 1. Yesterday 1 out of 4. Plus a conversation by one charger at which someone else said he'd never managed to get a ChargePlace Scotland charger to work - certainly not with a phone app.

The one success was a fast charger - notionally 30p per kWh - but the numbers didn't quite work out. Claimed output was 10 kWh, but £3.58 posted to credit card account. Another charger - Osprey - would have been 40p per unit (nominal) but didn't work. Yet another charger should have been free with a BP card, but sadly the genius who designed the parking space didn't allow enough space to get the car in together with the cable - not totally unusual - and worse than that we never found out whether it would have worked or not as some "person" with a hybrid car had not only parked in the EV space, but managed to park so badly that there was no way that anyone with an EV would ever be able to get into the space. Oh - there was another charger which required cable connection - but that just didn't work.

So on one day we got 100% success - while another day we were down to around 20%. The people who design charger spaces don't seem to realise that many cars (stupidly IMO) have the charging point in roughly the same place that a petrol filler cap would be on a petrol car, and then put the chargers at right angles to the road way, so that reversing in is necessary. It's not so bad in public car parks if there is enough space allocated, but on public roads this is a real hazard. It doesn't even help so much for the (more sensible) cars which have front connection points, as then the driver may have to reverse back into traffic to leave.

As an owner as a PHEV, would I be frowned upon for taking an EV charging space?
Admittedly, I have never used one yet, but if away from home I may want to use one. Sure, it takes 5.5 hours to charge my car…

[CageyH]

Jeez... Who could be bothered with all that pish?

Life's too short... Give it up and stick with a combustion engine!

Marco.

I think you would be impressed with the instantaneous response of an electric motor and the torque available.
I drove a Tesla the other day, and the performance is impressive. I never thought I would say that..

[Marco]

The performance isn't in question. I just like to HEAR my cars going VROOOOMM!!



Marco.

[struth]

my ass goes vroom

[CageyH]

The performance isn't in question. I just like to HEAR my cars going VROOOOMM!!



Marco.

I could I totally understand if it was a V8 petrol….
But an oil burner never really sounds right…