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Kilowatt Half Hour Ep 129: Posh Perks and the Bear Behind

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Every week, the Electrifying.com satisfy online to discuss all the important matters at hand. Such as the weather, what we're all having for our tea and who disposed who in last night's Love Island. In between these heavyweight subjects, we likewise discuss electrical automobiles. A lot. Probably an unhealthy total up to be honest.

And when we do talk about vehicles, we discover a lot. From industry chatter to the more ordinary practicalities of electric car ownership, it's the location where we dish the dirt on the cars we have actually been driving and provide our own decisions on the latest electrical cars and truck news. We also like to have a great make fun of the daftest little bits of anti-electric news that we've seen in the press.

We can't promise that you'll discover much. You most likely won't. But if you elegant thirty minutes of idle chat and gossip about the world of electrical automobiles, we're here for you. If you like it/ hate it/ believe it's too long or too short, let us understand.

Chapters are below so you can leap straight to the topic you're most interested in:.

00:00 Intro.
00:54 Range Rover Electric: first drive verdict.
04:28 Is the Range Rover's variety enough?
06:30 BMW iX5: first drive and a look back at the initial X5.
12:05 Motoring journalism in the 1990s.
14:37 Behind the scenes: recording in extreme weather.
16:33 Fiat Koala: a new small electrical automobile?
23:09 Charging without a driveway: pavement gullies and public charging expenses.
27:24 Coming up: ID Polo vs Kia EV2 and Polestar 4 SUV.
29:01 EV owner of the week: Kia EV6.
30:49 Buying suggestions: what's the electrical equivalent of a Ford Carnival?
32:57 Will crediting 100% damage your EV battery?
36:03 Your comments: retro cars, electric Jeeps and a VW Beetle revival.
40:20 Tesla's flying Roadster: fantastic engineering or a publicity stunt?
47:59 Next week and farewell.

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24 responses to “Kilowatt Half Hour Ep 129: Posh Perks and the Bear Behind”

  1. @royagyei1099 Avatar
    @royagyei1099

    Fiat Yogi, smarter than the average EV 😁

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    1. @johnohara9129 Avatar
      @johnohara9129

      Got there before me. I guess that leaves me with BooBoo 😆

      Reply
  2. @BhupendraBabuItani Avatar
    @BhupendraBabuItani

    Wow that’s amazing

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  3. @neilrwilliams218 Avatar
    @neilrwilliams218

    As someone who chaperones a school bus, I hope they never fly, I don’t need to add dealing with flight induced travel sickness to everything else!

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  4. @DavidJones-jz9sb Avatar
    @DavidJones-jz9sb

    I should imagine the military and emergency services would be very interested with the technology on the Tesla roadster

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  5. @TheJAMF Avatar
    @TheJAMF

    38:05 The Kübelwagen

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  6. @Bullit151 Avatar
    @Bullit151

    The ID Polo is actually the size of the Puma. The Vauxhall Corsa and Peugeot 208 are more Fiesta size, both of which have electric variants.
    The EV2 has the same length but is 6 inches taller and 3 inches wider, it depends what the buyer meant when they said they don’t want a bigger car.

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  7. @HiruS22 Avatar
    @HiruS22

    If any manufacturer did want to restrict you to 80% charging then they must reduce their WLTP claimed range by the same proportion, they can’t have it both ways. In any case, 100% is not 100%, just as 0% isn’t 0%, there are safety margins

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  8. @TheJAMF Avatar
    @TheJAMF

    @45:30 I was hoping for realistic. 🤔🤣
    Thanks Nicola for the “balanced”.

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  9. @stephenwensley Avatar
    @stephenwensley

    To be fair to the Range Rover, it is a school run/city car these days, so doesn’t need the 500 miles range anymore. No-one is going to be taking one into the Kalahari anymore (although if Landrover want to give me one to try that, I’d happily take it)

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  10. @brentharrison143 Avatar
    @brentharrison143

    So orders just opened in Canada for the GLC and we placed our order on Tuesday. This will be our first electric as we currently drive a 2013 GLK diesel and am looking forward to no more gas stations. It really won over the BMW and Volvo as I couldn’t see how I would clean dog drool out of those fabric covered dashes. Also liked the mechanical door handles. Thank you for your reviews and your comments, I also look at the GLC as an estate on stilts as I miss my 06 Jetta wagon for its space but wagons are gone from North America.

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  11. @stephenwensley Avatar
    @stephenwensley

    Ursula is derived from the Latin/Italian and means little female bear, perfect for a small Fiat. The Fiat Ursula. Another option could be Voytek who was enlisted in the Polish army in WWII and started mimicking the humans around him and carrying crates of artillery shells to the front lines without every dropping any at the battle of Monte Cassini in 1944, and eventually became the official emblem of the unit. He retired to Edinburgh zoo after the war.

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  12. @Oldboytelevision Avatar
    @Oldboytelevision

    Good podcast
    I will like and hype it

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  13. @rogernobbs6559 Avatar
    @rogernobbs6559

    Not entirely sure where Ginny’s been, but when Top Gear started it was presented by Angela Rippon. And until the May/Clarkson/Hammond iteration there was always at least one female presenter, most notably Vicki Butler-Henderson moonlighting from her day job as a touring car driver. As for regional accents back in the day, what about Adrian Chiles, Gloria Hunniford, Michael Parkinson… the list goes on. The big debate over accents was during WW2 when the BBC employed Yorkshireman Wilfred Pickles to read the news. I’d never realised Ginny was from up north and that’s after watching countless episodes of a well-known property show!

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  14. @Jaw0lf Avatar
    @Jaw0lf

    Thanks for the Roadster shout out, I agree we will only see the basic version that will have the suction but no thrusters, available to use on public roads. The next, with the thrusters are for race tracks and private roads.
    The final one that flew, will be very limited and unlikely to be used on public roads or race tracks. However I will not say there will never be flying cars. We have now seen it is possible to do and even the first flight of a plane was a very short distance. So maybe in many years we will see flying cars!

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    1. @AutoTrawler Avatar
      @AutoTrawler

      We have flying cars already, they’re called helicopters!

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    2. @davidschaub7965 Avatar
      @davidschaub7965

      Slight correction: There are 4 versions:

      1) No compressed air thrusters or ground force suction
      2) + Ground force suction
      3) + rear compressed air thrusters (200L tank)
      4) + bottom/side rear compressed air thrusters (+400L tank)

      Described by Telsa staff here: <https://youtu.be/JdkIOhFmbKI?t=444>

      (3) and (4) will never be road legal.

      I have serious doubts of (2) actually being road legal in all places.

      (1) is an underwhelming car VS what China can make.

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    3. @snaenaeyerbusiness Avatar
      @snaenaeyerbusiness

      Yeah the suction will not be road legal.

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  15. @PerdixDesignLtd Avatar
    @PerdixDesignLtd

    Correcting for inflation, £40k in 2000 is a little over £87k based on ONS info. The X5 hasn’t actually changed much. Unfortunately it’s still another universal SUV

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  16. @starlord8973 Avatar
    @starlord8973

    I’m surprised Mike didn’t talk about the NEW SMART 42 EV ?

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  17. @bryandavies6074 Avatar
    @bryandavies6074

    The BBC – after the accent correction, the question invariably followed: ‘Which school did you go to?’ They were resolutely committed to keeping the proles out.

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  18. @hex_7187 Avatar
    @hex_7187

    I use the Channel Tunnel a few times a year and Range Rovers are always well represented. They have always had a broad range of users.

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  19. @bryandavies6074 Avatar
    @bryandavies6074

    Trekker was the UK name for the VW type 181, a kubelwagen derivative developed as a ‘stopgap’ jeep type vehicle for the German army. And yes, something simple and rugged with some off road capability would be a good thing.

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  20. @StanleyD-c8b Avatar
    @StanleyD-c8b

    The Fiat Teddy🧸

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