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[IronmanG]

That prompts a question, those who have an EV, does it start slowing down as a warning that you’re running out of power, a bit like my watch goes into power saving mode at the end of a long day just to get itself to the finish?

We've never got that far. In the same way I don't run into the red on my mini or any other fossil fuel car. But it does start letting you know quite persistently when we get below 15%

[IronmanG]

We've had ours for about 10 weeks now. Total cost of electric has been 35 quid. Normally that would be over 200 in our zafira. For us it works well.

Edited by IronmanG, 12 April 2025 - 08:19 AM.

[IronmanG]

Further to this we've just booked a stay in France so it will be interesting to see how that pans out driving down there

[mab01uk]

Further to this we've just booked a stay in France so it will be interesting to see how that pans out driving down there

 

Yes, would be interesting to know how you get on with an EV in France.

 

By the way if you are using the toll Autoroutes in France I highly recommend getting an Emovis-Tag for your car before you go, which means you get virtually no delay in queues at any toll booths as you can drive through the automatic toll barriers on theTelepeage lane:-
https://www.emovis-tag.co.uk/

Edited by mab01uk, 14 April 2025 - 06:37 PM.

[humph]

Further to this we've just booked a stay in France so it will be interesting to see how that pans out driving down there

 

We took our Tesla to Switzerland last year from the North West, doing the same in June, and France is easy.  Unlike the UK all Tesla chargers are open to none Teslas, so you should have no issues charging. The big question will be how many charging stops you'll need along the way, but most rest places we used had better provision than the UK.  Make sure you have a multi network charge card that works in France & do your route planning on something like ABRP before you set off.  When using something like ABRP make sure your 'default' speed used for calculations allows for the higher speed limits over there or your planning may go out the window pretty quickly.

 

 

Further to this we've just booked a stay in France so it will be interesting to see how that pans out driving down there

 

Yes, would be interesting to know how you get on with an EV in France.

 

By the way if you are using the toll Autoroutes in France I highly recommend getting an Emovis-Tag for your car before you go, which means you get virtually no delay in queues at any toll booths as you can drive through the automatic toll barriers on theTelepeage lane:-
https://www.emovis-tag.co.uk/

 

 

I'd agree with this completely, worked a treat last year.  The app tells you how much you've racked up on it too, although it's usually a couple of days out of date unfortunately.

[Jetpacktoby]

I have an EV as a daily drive. We’ve taken it all around GB and to France. I’ve found charging in France just as easy/hard and as confusing as in GB.
Plan the journey. Have your preferred charging stops set but also an earlier one in the journey just in case
Take your time. Enjoy the journey instead of rushing to the destination if you can.
Try and make your charging station a useful stop.
On the way to Scotland we did an out of York park and ride with EV chargers so went and enjoyed the sites of the city instead of sitting in the car.
Obviously it makes a 6 hour trip into a 10-12 hour journey but if you set out with that in mind then there’s less stress. Apart from the occasional defective charger or one that’s on the map but not in situ any more that is.
That and the idea of every town or city having its own charging app to download before it’ll let you use the damn thing.
The problems of swapping from ICE to Ev haven’t got more or less they've just changed.

Edited by Jetpacktoby, Yesterday, 12:34 PM.

[Steam]

I find it amusing that on this forum there are loads of posts on how to make the mini more like modern cars to drive but people are willing to compromise with EVs.