W*nker of the week

[Protheroe]

I'm still at a loss to explain why monied people happily part with cash for a car with panel gaps big enough to get your fist in and paint jobs that Musk has admitted are shite.

[sickParrot]

I'm still at a loss to explain why monied people happily part with cash for a car with panel gaps big enough to get your fist in and paint jobs that Musk has admitted are shite.

Is it because they are good for overtaking? 

[Spandaubaggie]

I'm still at a loss to explain why monied people happily part with cash for a car with panel gaps big enough to get your fist in and paint jobs that Musk has admitted are shite.

A guy I know who leases electric cars for companies said to me Tesla’s are shite.

[Tom Joad]

I'm still at a loss to explain why monied people happily part with cash for a car with panel gaps big enough to get your fist in and paint jobs that Musk has admitted are shite.

Wait till there is a 20 tailback on the M25 and they all run out of battery time....

[Borin' Baggie]

I'm still at a loss to explain why monied people happily part with cash for a car with panel gaps big enough to get your fist in and paint jobs that Musk has admitted are shite.

Wait till there is a 20 tailback on the M25 and they all run out of battery time....

Electric cars are not like ICE cars, they don't idle. A tailback and traffic jam will increase the range of an electric car as the motors are working less.

[Tom Joad]

I'm still at a loss to explain why monied people happily part with cash for a car with panel gaps big enough to get your fist in and paint jobs that Musk has admitted are shite.

Wait till there is a 20 tailback on the M25 and they all run out of battery time....

Electric cars are not like ICE cars, they don't idle. A tailback and traffic jam will increase the range of an electric car as the motors are working less.

True, and the lights take little. The heater though, is a different story.

[Fulham Fallout]

I'm still at a loss to explain why monied people happily part with cash for a car with panel gaps big enough to get your fist in and paint jobs that Musk has admitted are shite.

Wait till there is a 20 tailback on the M25 and they all run out of battery time....

Electric cars are not like ICE cars, they don't idle. A tailback and traffic jam will increase the range of an electric car as the motors are working less.

So if it doesn’t move.... it doesn’t drain the battery?   That’s clever

[Borin' Baggie]

I'm still at a loss to explain why monied people happily part with cash for a car with panel gaps big enough to get your fist in and paint jobs that Musk has admitted are shite.

Wait till there is a 20 tailback on the M25 and they all run out of battery time....

Electric cars are not like ICE cars, they don't idle. A tailback and traffic jam will increase the range of an electric car as the motors are working less.

True, and the lights take little. The heater though, is a different story.

Wear a bloody jumper!

[sickParrot]

True, and the lights take little. The heater though, is a different story.

They are clever enough to switch off the electrics when the battery is low.

My wife had an i pace for a while, it wasn’t a bad car, went ok and felt like more than 400bhp. The problem is that the charger network isn’t ready, which is where Tesla have the advantage.

Depending on your driving journeys, you could effectively have “free petrol”.

[HawkingsHalfpint]

The old MD at our place literally flipped out at his tax bill one year, and decided he didn't want to give HMRC anymore money than he already was. So he chopped his relatively decent motor, and bought one of the first Mitsubishi iMiEVs to hit the streets.

Despite it being little bigger than a Ka he loved it at first, and used to take great joy in driving folk around in it at breakneck speed; as if almost to prove how fast it was. Which was - in fairness - not too sluggish, however you wouldn't expect a car the size and shape of a bumblebee to be too pedestrian.

My abiding memory was that he always had his coat on as the heater was shit. He also nearly mowed quite a few people down as you could never hear it coming. Eventually (after the first one's battery failed, and his eco-barfmobile-coloured promowagon was replaced by a slightly more subtle silver one), the second one began to wain, and its battery seldom gave him over 60-100 miles unless more or less permanently plugged in, which it was. He gradually started using his wife's car more and it was left to decay in the factory somewhere, until he retired and we eventually chopped it for about £2k.