[millermilla]

Hi,

What a great forum, loads of info. Awaiting delivery of my Ampera Electron. It was due to be delivered on the 19th but is delayed until mid October I am a company car driver and do about 30000 miles PA but given the low BIK still makes sense. Not sure what the Ampera will be like after 100,000 miles though. My regular commute is 160 miles but I can charge at work so not too bad.
I've driven a few Ampera and had one on loan for a week and managed 74mpg on the 160 mile round trip to work or 118 mpg with charging up at work so even though the journeys are a bit longer it still beats my current car a BMW 1 Series diesel which is pretty good at 65mpg.
Anyway can't wait and just wanted to say Hi.

 

[Paul_Moxhay]

Sounds great! You should halve your commute costs being able to charge at work and have the pleasure of EV driving too... perfect

Welcome!

 

[alan campbell]

From one newbie to another Welcome

 

[AndyG]

Welcome…….

I am planning on the Volt lasting well over 100000 miles, I hope that GM's ott battery management means it should be ok.

 

[Paul]

Welcome to Speak EV, congratulations on the order.

 

[Gary Cambridge]

Welcome

 

[millermilla]

Getting exited now, due to be delivered to the dealer on Friday and not had an e-mail telling me there is another delay. Fingers crossed

 

[Lee Dalton]

Getting exited now, due to be delivered to the dealer on Friday and not had an e-mail telling me there is another delay. Fingers crossed

Sounds good !
Even better that you got to do a decent range of test drives.

 

[millermilla]

2 days before delivery I get an e-mail saying it's been delayed by another week. On the plus side they put the reg number on the e-mail so I done a bit of searching and it's definitely a MY13

 

[alan campbell]

been driving my leaf for about 5 weeks now. never going back to petrol

 

[millermilla]

Yay, finally it arrived today

 

[Paul]

Nice.

 

[hopbackguy]

Love the colour!

 

[Lee Dalton]

Agree on the colour, very nice !
Where's your charger

 

[millermilla]

The charge socket is by the door so the car has to be nose in to charge. I just put it that way round for the photo.

 

[Lee Dalton]

Bet you had a grin all the way home
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do !

 

[millermilla]

I notice my car does not have lane departure or road sign recognition, one of the Ampera's I tried last year did have. Mine is a MY 2013 although the build date is Sept 2012. Was there a later revision? I notice lane departure and sign recognition is not listed as a feature on the website but is listed in the handbook.

 

[Lee Dalton]

Not heard of sign recognition, but the lane departure would be an optional extra I presume...
To be honest, I have the positiv which had more toys than I have had on a car for maybe 15 years !

 

[millermilla]

Looking forward to the first proper drive tomorrow, spent about 3hrs sat in it this afternoon playing and loading the HDD with some tunes Its going to get some use over the next few days, a 180 mile single leg trip to kick off.

 

[Russ]

I notice my car does not have lane departure or road sign recognition, one of the Ampera's I tried last year did have. Mine is a MY 2013 although the build date is Sept 2012. Was there a later revision? I notice lane departure and sign recognition is not listed as a feature on the website but is listed in the handbook.

Hi @millermilla
The later cars have a rear armrest.
I think the lane departure and road sign recognition kit is only on the US versions although you obviously drove one over here with it installed.
Having driven mine for around 1,500 miles, it is the best car by far that I have ever owned and my last car was an M3.

So much fun for so little cost. Very few downsides although the satnav voice will make you jump when you first hear her octave change as she uses text to voice when naming roads.
Pity we cannot turn off that unnecessary feature.