Electric cars-got to be a viable option now?
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Originally Posted by
thenikjones
Unless Musk has bought out Bezos then why not from Amazon?
Is Bezos really any better than Musk?
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Originally Posted by
thenikjones
Sister won't use Amazon as they "kill the high street" and she works in Tesco - where do you draw the line?
Oh, the irony.
Electric cars-got to be a viable option now?
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Originally Posted by
Mr Curta
Astonishing that Teslas don't have CarPlay as standard, even my crappy Nissan has it and it is very handy.
Me too, family firmly in the Apple ecosystem and our current Ford and Cupra both have CarPlay in use on every drive. Amazed you can’t get them on a Tesla??!! Cupra also has HUD even on mid spec which I actually find very useful. Anything that avoids taking your eyes off the road has to be a plus!
Electric cars-got to be a viable option now?
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Originally Posted by
Passenger
Eh? Genuinely trying to get what the deal, appeal is with these EVs, that is all and my small engined Skoda is very quiet at lower, mid speeds and a pretty comfortable ride too, so it didn’t seem like an unreasonable comment/ poo post to me…and yes Yank automatics are pretty dull in my view.
I can’t speak for American automatics because I’ve not driven any but even so, I wouldn’t judge all yank autos on one or two. The auto boxes in my wife’s Mercedes and her mini before that were very good and much better than the box in my 59 plate Merc.
As to the ride in an EV, if the road surfaces are bad then the ride is as bad as any other car but on decent, smooth roads the ride is much better. Driving your Skoda at slow speeds will not replicate driving a car without an engine. The closest you could get would be to drive it down a suitable hill having knocked it out of gear. We are so accustomed to the (albeit fairly minimal) vibrations from an ICE vehicle that it’s only when they aren’t there that you really notice it.
You can no more equate driving an ICE slowly to driving an EV than you can equate dry slope skiing on a cold day to the experience on snow.