Electric Vehicles
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@nostrildamus said in Electric Vehicles:
There is a Skoda electric hatch/SUV but not sure it will ever gain the underground cult status of the Yeti..
That's the Enyaq - too big for me and no PHEV version.
Yeah, I didn't realise the Yeti was such a cult car until I started talking to the dealers - told me they were horrified when Skoda axed it.
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Took the Q4 for a spin. Goes really well, and the technology in it is really good. Although I'd have to turn off the bit which auto slows you down as it reads speed limits up ahead. Driverless cars etc.
Downside is that somehow or other Audi have made a premium car feel not very premium. Lots of plastic in there and although the build quality feels decent, the materials feel pretty cheap.
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Apparently not everyone wants a Tesla. Biggest selling EV in Norway last month was Ford's Mach E.
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@antipodean said in Electric Vehicles:
Apparently not everyone wants a Tesla. Biggest selling EV in Norway last month was Ford's Mach E.
They got it on May as well - first full month of sales over there.
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@majorrage said in Electric Vehicles:
Took the Q4 for a spin. Goes really well, and the technology in it is really good. Although I'd have to turn off the bit which auto slows you down as it reads speed limits up ahead. Driverless cars etc.
Downside is that somehow or other Audi have made a premium car feel not very premium. Lots of plastic in there and although the build quality feels decent, the materials feel pretty cheap.
I have similar issues with the driver aids on my A6 Avant. Lane drift warning gives a tug on the steering wheel. Not nice when you’re actually trying to change lanes smoothly in the wet…
Also collision response chucks the brakes on if it thinks something in front is getting too close. Might be handy if the sensors were accurate.
I turn as much of it off as I can.
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@catogrande said in Electric Vehicles:
@majorrage said in Electric Vehicles:
Took the Q4 for a spin. Goes really well, and the technology in it is really good. Although I'd have to turn off the bit which auto slows you down as it reads speed limits up ahead. Driverless cars etc.
Downside is that somehow or other Audi have made a premium car feel not very premium. Lots of plastic in there and although the build quality feels decent, the materials feel pretty cheap.
I have similar issues with the driver aids on my A6 Avant. Lane drift warning gives a tug on the steering wheel. Not nice when you’re actually trying to change lanes smoothly in the wet…
Also collision response chucks the brakes on if it thinks something in front is getting too close. Might be handy if the sensors were accurate.
I turn as much of it off as I can.
Scariest thing is that we are creating cars for people that can't drive very well and dumbing down their need to learn even more.
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@crucial said in Electric Vehicles:
Most people I know with lane correction in their vehicles turns it off. It may work fine on the M4 or Autobahn but on NZ roads it is plain scary. A bit like Cruise Control it only really works well in ideal conditions.
Had a rental in the South island that suddenly jammed the brakes on whole driving near Cromwell. A car 200m ahead was slowing down to pull off the road and the smarts took me by surprise. People behind me weren't thrilled.
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@crucial said in Electric Vehicles:
Most people I know with lane correction in their vehicles turns it off. It may work fine on the M4 or Autobahn but on NZ roads it is plain scary. A bit like Cruise Control it only really works well in ideal conditions.
Depends what you are in and the technology. The company car for my shop is a Subaru that has lane departure and it is terrible because most of our roads around here are shit and most don't even have road markings.
My father's E-tron Audi on the other hand is really bloody good. Completely different tech involved, not to mention $150K in price as well as the cars age.
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@majorrage said in Electric Vehicles:
@snowy And we've done the full circle. This conversation started on my pointing out how much I didn't like the driverless car tech on the Audi E-Tron I test drove!
Haha. Yeah I know, but some of it is better than others. I don't usually use any of it.
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So managed a drive of the Audi Etron GT-RS yesterday.
Proper proper quick. Neck snapping off the line and the 70-90mph as fast as I've felt in anything..
But it's just completely devoid of any drama / emotion / excitement. And it comes in at a lazy 120k GBP! I just can't see how that work. I know I'm a bit of a dinosaur with my approach to cars, but surely if you are going to spend silly money on a wagon, then you want it to make you feel like you are in something special, you look something special, you are something special. This car just doesn't have it. As it stands right now, for your toy car, you simply need something that burns hydrocarbons.
Hopefully next week, we'll be getting behind an E-tron Quattro 55. This is looking the winner for me as it means we can ditch our X5 and move to something more planet friendly. I absolutely love our X5 though, so it'll be an emotional day. But the tax breaks on electric cars are just too tempting to avoid.
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Drove the Taycan.
It’s unbelievably good. Porsche handling, beautiful to ride in, fast as all hell & is the first electric car I’ve driven since the original Tesla roadster which delivers performance with some drama (still less than petrol drama, but has some).
It’s a real deal game changer for petrol heads like me.
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And drove the iX3. Summary is that it's a cracking wagon, but comes with the same problem as a lot of electric cars. Its over priced. It's not a 60k GBP car, not even close.
Still, if we can lock in a tax efficient leasing deal it's a bit of a no brainer. So far ahead of the Q4 and XC40 on driving dynamics. Would like to see an iX first though, but that's not likely til 2022.
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@jc said in Electric Vehicles:
Just saw the Audi e-tron GT ad. If I buy one will I be as cool as Tom Hardy?
no
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