Stop the press! New cars lose money!!

I'm still very happy being paid to put fuel in my milk float. Was buying it new silly, oh yes, just like my new Subaru back in the day.

 

Maybe can offset losses with bit coin

 

Serviced my first E -tron today.

Had to drain the coolant leakage reservoirs as part of the schedule.

WTF is that you ask? I asked the same. Well, the motor armature has a hollow shaft used for cooling with slip ring seals to keep coolant out of the motor/gearbox. The reservoir is there to catch any coolant that may weep into the motor casing.

A few ml is ok, but if its found to be full there's a leak . If the reservoir isn't emptied coolant contaminates the motor causing an earth fault and the vehicle to shut down the HV system (equivalent of a RCD tripping) rendering the car immobile. Rectification is to replace the motor. Kerching, turns out E-Trons are bricking quite a lot with this issue. Hope the owners have a good warranty.

Its the modern version of a head gasket failing. But this ain't no scabby old K-series

 

 

how much less of an 'investment' has it been than the Subaru ??

forgetting about your solar for a minute

 

Sooner or later, taxes will be imposed on electric cars, so it's worth considering whether your car is worth exchanging for an electric car.

 

Not sure I get what you mean but the Subaru lost ~£20,000 in my ownership plus an absolute **** ton of petrol. My little milk float didn't cost that much.

 

go get your cut price Tesla


https://www.reuters.com/business/aut...ys-2024-06-20/

 

Electric cars have gained a lot of popularity these days. Especially the various Teslas of Elon Musk.

 

They’ve had to cut price to do that

 

https://news.sky.com/story/stellanti...rules-13158573

 

'Fewer fossil fuelled cars ...."

where the f do people think the fuel comes from


presumably all wind powered lol

 

As polling day looms, remember 381 MPs that "we" voted to "represent" us passed a law in January forcing the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate upon us.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com

This is the beginning of the blowback of MPs passing this daft law which is essentially dragging a horse into a lake and forcing it to drink by drowning it.


As an aside I stopped off in a rather nice dog friendly Hotel in Pamplona earlier this week; Dog friendly being the priority not the accessibility of usable charge points. Which they did have, but they were all out of order except for this one;



BTW, That's a Porsche destination charge point intended for Porsche owners.

Imagine owning a Porsche signed up with Porsche destination charging, then getting to your nice Hotel to charge your £80k Taycan overnight only to find a poxy MG hogging the only working charge point all night!! LMAO 🤣

Didn't find the MG owner to ask far he can drive a MG per day, but our old F07 BMW managed Bernay (France) to Pamplona (Spain) - 900km in a single day with 100km to spare so no need to "refuel/recharge" inbetween.

 

I find it amazing an old man like you can go a whole day without pissing or eating.

 

Planning in advance hasn’t worked for an 80k spend

 

You need to stop drinking from those bottles you keep finding on the verges.

 

Porsche Destination charging points are supposed reduce the need to plan ahead via the app / map advising of charging at your destination hotel / golf club / Gucci outlet store / whatever. (hence the name "destination" charging. As well as the perk of it being free.

https://www.porsche.com/internationa...stination~open

There's only two free-to-use destination chargers in Pamplona, one here and the other in the city somewhere, one in use by a MG. Obviously a non-issue at present as the chances of two EVs needing to charge overnight are slim, but as ZEV laws progressively kick in across europe and beyond this will change. Will be fun for the early adopters.

 

Charging is getting easier every month, the difference from this year to last is astonishing. My annual over 100mile trip this year was a doddle where last year I could only have a plan A and B this year I was so spoiled for choice I needn't have planned. And that's on my little car with only AC charging sticking to 22kw chargers, for cars with DC charging the choice is huge, Tesla has opened up their chargers for everyone now.

You'll be dead before you can't drive a Fossil car so why worry.

 

Will we have more wind / sun by then too

 

EV's no more , unless hand is forced


https://www.carscoops.com/2024/08/ov...-improvement/#

 

Not sure what you're trying to say but anyone who drives can see for themselves the growth in electric cars year on year, roads are full of them and chargers are abundant.

 

not so much elsewhere , here its mandated is it not


even then the government is likely to roll back on targets

 

It's not mandated at all, it a simple choice, choose a slow car that's expensive to run or not.

 

lol, happy with my slow car , un mandated car

while saving fortune

 

Filled mine up for free again yesterday, lost count of how many times now, you're chipping away at that fortune every time you chuck another £100 in the tank.

 

Jack you're in a very small pool of people who maybe can balance it all out , almost everyone else has been caught up in a fantasy that they are saving the world



* a wicked fantasy to boot

 

Saving people walking from breathing fumes and saving a ton on petrol.

 

Its another form gentrification/nimbyism


obviously heavy polluting diesel should not be in the city , those diesels that we were all told to buy not long ago

 

22kw's yesterday, 5p. That's half the car filled, washing done and dried, dishwasher run and living room heated to tropical. Negative pricing today too, might go for a drive.

 

Walk/Bike Run would do you more