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    Motorway Driving

    A lot of urban driving is in heavy traffic, stop start. Very predictable. You can turn it off once traffic starts moving freely.
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    Motorway Driving

    Dunno vast progress being made though.
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    Motorway Driving

    I'm new to adaptive cruise control. Its useful in crawling traffic as well. Though there's a certain amount of stress trusting it.
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    Electric Car Value Trade In. Please Help

    I think the OP just bought at a bad time. I think there's a bit of learning curve and mindset with driving an EV. You try to charge it between 20-80% and only to 100% at the start of long journey. On the journey you stop and top up just enough to get destination with a fast charge. You stay...
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    Electric Car Value Trade In. Please Help

    We are broadly on the same page. It's a market in a lot of flux.
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    Electric Car Value Trade In. Please Help

    EVs range is more heavily affected by cold than petrol cars etc. For a variety of reasons. So the winter range is a lot less than summer range. Petrol and diesel cars waste a lot of energy as heat. So hence heating doesn't effect range. Petrol and diesel is still more convenient for long...
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    Electric Car Value Trade In. Please Help

    I think there's more to it than just "cutting back" I went looking at ID4s a few months back was just staggered at how expensive they were, some were 60-70k. VW are carrying massive debt had all sorts of software issues...
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    Electric Car Value Trade In. Please Help

    Dublin to Galway is only just over 200km. I'd be curious what EV you've got that can't do that without charging twice. You've bought the car at the peak of the market just before the prices have been slashed. Most new cars have massive amount of depreciation in the first 2 years. Also its the...
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    Electric Car Value Trade In. Please Help

    Theres a bit more to it than that. Tesla keep dropping prices to maintain market share in the face of Chinese competition. They are trying to maintain market share to maintain their share price. What they have done is compressed the entire EV market under their prices. No one is going to buy a...
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    Motorway Driving

    There is the issue when you leave a reasonable gap someone (sometimes more than one) will dive into it at inappropriate speed diving for the exit. My answer to that is where appropriate slow down further making the gap bigger. Speaking for myself I want the impatient drivers disappearing into...
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    Motorway Driving

    I often see and/or experience merging difficulties when joining motorways. I noticed similar in the UK when driving there. Some countries I think have a different rule that you have give way to merging traffic. Perhaps for this very reason. Personally where possible I prefer to move out of...
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    Motorway Driving

    You already said what point he was going to merge. Exactly where you were if neither of you changed speed. You had right of way and didn't change speed. Leaving the bus only one option, to slow down, and try merge behind you at slower speed (to the traffic on the main road) or stop. That's...
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    Motorway Driving

    I just said you had right of way, you've decided to say "insisting". If someone is a on slipway joining on a major road would assume they are merging onto the major road. What else would they be doing. No sure what poor visibility has to do with it, if people are all driving at 80kph and you...
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    Motorway Driving

    You might have had right of way. But I don't really get "can't slow down" thing.
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    Motorway Driving

    Yes. Both seen and experienced where drivers on the motorway will not let traffic entering the motorway merge. I don't think its that uncommon.
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    Is the cost of electricity still that high??

    Thats interesting that you plug it every night. Never occurred to me to do that when I don't need to charge.
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    NCT delay

    They also could try to improve the pass rate.
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    NCT delay

    I'd say if they only allowed people to book within 30 to 60 days of their due date it would vastly simplify the whole thing. Just in time and all that.
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    Is the cost of electricity still that high??

    Approx how often do you charge and what size battery? I reckon I only put in about 70kW max in the EV a week. Often less.
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    Is the cost of electricity still that high??

    Unless you are very disciplined and get max use of the night rate, the discounts in general seem to offset by a equivalent higher day rate.
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