dickygrace
www.richardgracecars.co.uk
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Tax dodge is the only benefit as Ewan highlights, been saying this for ages. Not one person has said they’ve done it for any other reason. I’d think they’d look rather obtuse if they did so.
In all seriousness, electric cars are proving to be a real problem for guide dogs, something needs to be done, on the other hand when we are blasting around Exmoor in our V8's and V12's and the ramblers stand there with their fingers in their ears, it's quite a good retort 'Well madam, would you rather we drove around in silent electric cars, because you wouldn't know to get out of the way until you were underneath our cars, at least you can hear us now, and know it would be prudent to move'Perhaps all EVs should have external speakers playing a Strad soundtrack? Safe and sound.
not really noticed any with a sound i would call useful yet...It is has been a requirement for over a year.
New noise systems to stop ‘silent’ electric cars and improve safety
From 1 July 2019 all manufacturers must install an acoustic sound system in new types of quiet electric and hybrid electric vehicles to improve road safety.www.gov.uk
Hope it wasn't me!!! I have an i3 and yes they are unbelievably quiet and probably ought to have a sound generator somewhere. its blissfully quiet inside tooAn i3 driver tried to mow me down today as I walked across a car park! Came out of nowhere lol. I may have to learn a new set of skills.
Tax dodge is the only benefit as Ewan highlights, been saying this for ages. Not one person has said they’ve done it for any other reason. I’d think they’d look rather obtuse if they did so.
Interesting, Ewan. What put you off the iPace relative to the Audi? I've always quite liked the iPace and the just-updated one looks even better.
Whats under the bonnet? More luggage space or engine/batteries ?Have now collected the E-Tron. So far, so good. But it’s early days.
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Have now collected the E-Tron. So far, so good. But it’s early days.
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Just a compartment for the various charging leads. I don’t know what’s under that, but I assume batteries.Whats under the bonnet? More luggage space or engine/batteries ?
Full charge. Which will have cost less than a tenner anyway. Which, I suppose, it part of the reason for buying one - they cost pennies to run.