Don’t hammer the handbrake on…bluey.
Just nip up,and leave her in gear.
Franglais:
lancpudn:
For the first time in over 50 years of driving I’ve gone over to the dark side & bought a new BEV, a MG ZS EV. I’ve spent my entire life driving old classic cars, welding,fabricating,mechanics,paint spraying them myself & buying newer salvage cars for daily drivers for my missus.
It’s come a time now where the mind is still willing but the body isn’t up to crawling under cars any more so since I’m retired & have no commute or long distance driving this SAIC MG ZS EV will do me just fine.The smooth silent drive is a revelation & the one pedal driving is a blast, so relaxing, I think I only touched the brake pedal twice on the drive back home from collecting the car in Wigan.
It’s certainly not been without it’s problems trying to get a 7kw wallbox charger installed, our old house (1925) with an antiquated shared loop electricity (which there are lots of these houses in my neck o the woods) supply with two other houses isn’t up to today’s code & isn’t up to the job of running a 7kw charger plus whatever you have running in the house
The OLEV grant installation guys ask for lots of pictures of your electricity system so they can remotely access the situation & whether you have off road parking / garage which I have both.
They trook one look at my pictures & said nah mate computer says NO you’ll need to get your electric system upgraded.
I spoke with the DNO ( district network operator) and they’re coming at the end of the month to upgrade us to a new 100A electricity supply (currently only 60A) at no cost to us as it’s their problemSome nice big orange tubes for the electrickery to flow through. Quite surprised to see a 12v “starter battery” there too!
Yeah the 12V battery runs the dashboard/infotainment, lights, heater fan, electric windows etc. There are some problems with all brands of BEV’s concerning the 12V battery going flat, When the voltage drops below a certain point it wont have enough power to get the car into ready mode to enable the main traction battery pack to power up, they don’t have an alternator as such but the 12V battery draws 12-14.5 volts power from the main battery traction pack. A lot of owners carry those mini jump starter packs as it seems to be a regular thing.