Thoughts? Similar group as the 124 with the ev exception.
Amen.The troubling part of this is, it makes the 124 feel very old-fashioned and clunky, especially on the work commute and in traffic. The Enyaq is not the perfect car, or very exciting, but it is very quiet, smooth, comfortable and effortless ...
I have to take the Abarth out deliberately to some challenging roads to remind myself what it is for - Which works just fine, but I do wonder if an open EV sportster might not also be entertaining ...
Unfortunately I disagree strongly as the infrastructure in the UK is appalling for EV's. This is why people suffer from stress and anxiety when taking trips. They have to plan around charging points and then usually hours of waiting to get the use of a charger. Superchargers? Not likely because only a few cars can use the very fast chargers so they are all low outputs at charging stations in the UK. So, maybe Stateside it's all great, but not so over here.Electric cars are simply superior in nearly all respects. Yes, including taking road trips where there is no way I’’m taking the 124 on a road trip. 350 mile range and superchargers and charging at hotels and the comfort of an EV makes road trips far more pleasant, and cheaper, and less tiring, in my Tesla.
This feels like a bit of a generalization. Regardless, things are charging ahead, charging ahead I say.... https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ticle/2024/may/05/uk-installs-record-number-of-public-electric-vehicle-chargers
Sorry to say that neither of you live here. If you did you'd know that the UK is far behind it's schedule for charger installations which of course the newspaper article doesn't tell you. You'd also know that there have been instances of 6 hour waits with queues of 22 Tesla's in one instance all waiting for a charger, so quoting a handful of people from a forum hardly equates to anything valid as far as what we see regularly in the news and various publications here. Record numbers of people are trading in their EV's to go back to ICE. Many disabled people are dumping EV's cos' those in wheelchairs cannot access most of the chargers due to kerbs and steps being placed in front of them or the charge cables being too high to reach from a wheelchair. Yup, they forgot about access when designing them. I'm not here to argue, but I do live here and see the mess they have made of it.These UK Tesla owners have no stress or anxiety road tripping in the UK. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/road-trip-scotland-to-england.305516/
For now, and for a while, anyone intending to road trip their EV very much should probably insure that it can use the Tesla Supercharger network. In the US that will be open to most other new non-Tesla EVs. not sure about other countries.
For ev driving you plan. Gasp. Dude… AFAICT you actually don’t know anything about driving an EV and you’re trying to apply what you think you’ve seen to driving one. Well, uh. I believe you may have misunderstood how it actually works.Almost, if not all, the hotels do not have electric charge points..... I don't mind as I drive a non-electric car. So for me it's not a problem.
But, gasp! How did you not die? How did you not run out of electricity in the middle of nowhere? It's not even possible - I drove around every hotel on your route and didn't see a charger (although I wasn't actually looking for chargers).We rented a Model Y and drove around France a couple of years ago with zero issues, is all I know.
LOL. I don’t live in the UK (anymore) and the picture you paint is what people who learn about EVs get from reading newspapers and not communicating with actual owners first hand.Sorry to say that neither of you live here.
. . . Record numbers of people are trading in their EV's to go back to ICE.
LOL. Farmington has a Supercharger and Thoreau has a Supercharger in nearby Grants. Check out https://www.tesla.com/trips.This way when I'm driving down a lonely stretch of two lane like New Mexico 371 between Farmington and Thoreau