EV and advice from any users please!

[CatmanV2]

This is Maserati Territory

Not Tesla

Just saying

Thanks for putting us on the right lines. We've been getting this thread drift thing wrong for all these years!



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[Italiano]

Thanks for putting us on the right lines. We've been getting this thread drift thing wrong for all these years!



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[Andyk]

I see Fisker are making an electric car and have to say it looks good to me and a you can have a solar road to harvest electricity when sunny. No sure why this hasn’t been done before, Starts at 35k as well so not the silly prices that some start at.

https://www.fiskerinc.com/en-gb/ocean

 

[philw696]

I see Fisker are making an electric car and have to say it looks good to me and a you can have a solar road to harvest electricity when sunny. No sure why this hasn’t been done before, Starts at 35k as well so not the silly prices that some start at.

https://www.fiskerinc.com/en-gb/ocean

Saw solar roofs on Toyotas 3 years ago and thought how clever.

 

[CatmanV2]

No sure why this hasn’t been done before

Because they are outlandishly expensive, at a guess

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[ScottH]

I believe it was a weight / efficiency issue too, although that was a few years ago.

 

[CatmanV2]

I believe it was a weight / efficiency issue too, although that was a few years ago.

I was specifically referring to the roads, but pretty sure you're right about the roofs as well. They need to be structural and support the panels.

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[safrane]

Fisker have mad a few EVs... saw these in Monaco a few years back and quite liked them.

 

[Andyk]

Fisker have mad a few EVs... saw these in Monaco a few years back and quite liked them.

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Agree Pete…A bit of an acquired taste but I like them also. Wasn’t this based on a 6 series…or 8 series ?

 

[safrane]

No idea on the platform - maybe Wiki would know

 

[Scaf]

How about and electric classic - saw this series 1 etype today.

Seems like waste of a rather special car IMO

 

[philw696]

Never ending carburettor issues should have found a new mechanic who understands carbs.
I found running a XK motor on SU carbs an absolute pleasure to set up and enjoy.

 

[Oneball]

They’ve made it slower!

 

[gb-gta]

Not many classics I’d want as electric converted.
Would certainly need to have been auto originally. Maybe a Silver shadow or a Citroen DS might suit due to the cruisy, luxury, wafty thing.

 

[Alan Surrey]

My view too. Putting an electric motor in a genuine ( not replica) E type is not a good thing to do. Revisionist?
In my book its up there with tearing down statues of people who founded Oxford colleges. XK engines (lovely) and colleges (also good things) exist. We can recognise them and how they came to be. We don't have to celebrate it, but we must not modify the record.

 

[Oneball]

If you’re going to do it. Do it properly

 

[Vampyrebat]

If you’re going to do it. Do it properly

Ahhh............The Blackcurrant!

 

[zagatoes30]

My little i3 is just great. 125 mpg is what a petrol car would have to do around town to beat it. So no price anxiety for me anytime I drive past a filling station. Cruises on the motorway with the big boys (most of them anyway.) Out accelerates most (7 seconds, I think 0-60) and handles brilliantly. Not bad for a shopping/commuting car.
Oh and because it has a relatively small battery, I just plug it into the house's ring main - any 3 pin socket - and it recharges overnight, so I don't spend any time in filling stations with it anyway.

Your not helping my, I think I should buy an I3 thoughts only the Irish price is stopping me

 

[Alan Surrey]

The i3 was getting a bit low on petrol so I tanked it up last night. It took 7 litres.
Nice, but it's not a Maserati.

 

[drellis]

The i3 was getting a bit low on petrol so I tanked it up last night. It took 7 litres.
Nice, but it's not a Maserati.

Im experimenting with the traction off on the i3, it actually feels like a 3200.... with the traction on