winter

Hi all, we bought our first Leaf30 Acenta back in October last year, so have only really known it as a winter car so far. We found that a general battery use rule of thumb during the cold months seemed to be 20% battery = 15 miles. I'd seen that ratio on this forum somewhere, and it worked...

The German channel Nextmove (subtitles available) has just done an excellent analysis of this topic, and EV advantages in winter. My own experience (e-Niro, 2 years, Herefordshire + trips to Aberdeen) shows roughly a 30% increase in monthly average energy consumption (at car level) between...

I have a Mercedes B class electric 2017 model. The official says that it should charge 87mile range (not on paper but in the real life) without extender. in the summer time we managed to get close to 87miles but now in winter it went down to around 52-54miles. Just over 50miles isn’t quite...

I've been watching the EV market for many months now, and let me state up front... I would really like to get one; and may still but the problems described below will be hard to overcome. I live in Minneapolis MN, and currently drive a 2011 Cadilac STS AWD with 78,000 miles on it. I drive...

Hi I'd thought I post my first year's ownership experience after using my REX as a commuter car for the last 12 months. Bought the 2014 car with 25,000 miles from an independent dealer with a 12 month insurance policy warranty (Just expired). So always slightly concerning to if and what they...

Hi, I’m shortly going to be buying a Leaf. It will have a 30kW battery and I will likely need a 6.6kW charger. The biggest bonus with the Tekna over the Acenta seems to be the heated seats and steering wheel reduces need for heating the car in the winter. However, I have three kids in car...

I'm looking for a set of winter wheels/tyres for my 2016 i3 BEV. Please contact me if you have a set to sell...

I’m hoping someone can help or advise. As we’ve now bought out our PCPd Zoe, I’m thinking of getting a set of winter tyres which I’ll look to use half the year. My intention is to pick up a set of steel wheels and put winter tyres on these however I’m aware that my car has the TPMS system...

I'm planning to drive Bournemouth-Southport via M27, M3, A34, M40, M6 tomorrow in a Leaf 24. I've done it before in summer (3 stops) and autumn (4 stops) and in those trips all the chargers worked. Now it's come to winter it seems it's a different story. So much red on Zap-Map. It looks like...

Hi friends, I took my Zoe to London this weekend. Plugged into a few posts that were 7kW as found no free (well paid for via the Polar-Plus subscription) 22kWs (I realised I've been spoilt with Polar 22kW / free Sainsbury's Pod Point posts elsewhere!). London public charging is surprisingly...

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Got back from my 40 mile commute with only 1 mile remaining ... an driving like a nun for the last 3 miles New to me as I have only been driving the ' stealth machine ' since April . 3000 miles on leccky but it seems i'll soon be falling short. I've had to use the preconditioning plugged in...

Just downloaded my last 11 months figures off the Nissan website: very clear evidence of the winter/summer effect on range and energy efficiency for my 2013 Leaf: I'm driving about 1,000 miles a month or so: June 2015 figures are unavailable due to a carwings glitch: Jan/2016 0.34 kWh/mile...

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I use my leaf For delivering Chinese Food 3 or 4 nights a week Extra Pocket money. After I purchased my used leaf gen2 in august knowing my my average nights shift is between 40-70 miles so should easily be in range of the leafs battery even if a few shifts were busier.(I have a 55 plate focus...

In case anyone is curious about this topic, here is text from the manual... "The high voltage battery warmer system prevents reduction of battery output when battery temperature is low. If the charging connector is connected, the warmer system automatically operate according to the battery...

Winter kills range, we all know that. But why exactly? Is it just the battery temperature and the use of the heater and demister? And if so, what about long distance trips - with multiple rapid charges? I'm interested in heading from Scotland to Cheltenham at Christmas - a 350 mile trip I have...

Is anyone here thinking of getting winter tyres for their e-Golf? I have heard good things about the benefits of winter tyres but I don't do a lot of miles and live in the temperate south west London suburbs.