Kilowatt Half Hour Episode 46: Miles high club, PHEVs and Fuel cells | Electrifying.com

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This week, Mike and Tom go over the Italian electric car scene (a really brief discussion), the Dolphin Active and ask why it's so bloomin' challenging to buy an automobile. The group likewise talk about a buying quandary, a charging puzzler and dip into the postbag to see what you're believing.

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Each week, the .com satisfy online to discuss all the important matters at hand. Such as the weather condition, what we're all having for our tea and who discarded who in last night's Love Island. Between these heavyweight topics, we also talk about electric . A lot. Most likely an unhealthy total up to be sincere.

And when we do talk about vehicles, we discover a lot. From market gossip to the more mundane functionalities of electric vehicle ownership, it's the location where we dish the dirt on the cars we've been driving and provide our own verdicts on the current electric vehicle . We likewise like to have an excellent laugh at the daftest bits of anti-electric that we have actually seen in journalism.

We can't promise that you'll learn much. You most likely won't. However if you expensive thirty minutes of idle chat and gossip about the world of electric cars and trucks, we're here for you. If you like it/ dislike it/ believe it's too long or too brief, let us understand.

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28 responses to “Kilowatt Half Hour Episode 46: Miles high club, PHEVs and Fuel cells | Electrifying.com”

  1. @mikadavies660 Avatar
    @mikadavies660

    Nice to see, we are back in the car with a cozy feeling chat. 👍

  2. @Erikkrols Avatar
    @Erikkrols

    You can start this video at 5.42 min. You haven’t missed anything.

    1. @davidspencer7254 Avatar
      @davidspencer7254

      That’s good because sometimes you can skip over the thin skinned Nissan owner feeling threatened by Dacias and not miss anything at 43 minutes in. 😂

  3. @rio8677 Avatar
    @rio8677

    In germany hydrogen stations are closing down already, dead horse😂

    1. @jamesengland7461 Avatar
      @jamesengland7461

      California also

    2. @crm114. Avatar
      @crm114.

      Hydrogen cars, DOA

  4. @mikadavies660 Avatar
    @mikadavies660

    Difficult to calculate 260,000 miles but even assuming cheap rate at home electric it is still over £12,500. But imagine the average petrol car, which would have burnt £40,000 worth of petrol.

  5. @mikadavies660 Avatar
    @mikadavies660

    In 2022 we were waiting for a VW E-up. This kept being delayed… So I called the leasing company and they offered us a Citroen E-C4 as an “in stock deal”. Which we took without even driving it or looking at one. The only thing we did was look at your review on YouTube. It has actually been a brilliant and we love it.

  6. @mikadavies660 Avatar
    @mikadavies660

    On the “Capri Game” we would have one as long as it was under £300/mth on a 10,000/yr lease.

  7. @stephenballantyne Avatar
    @stephenballantyne

    Ordered my Ora 03 earlier this week! So excited and then suddenly realised I need to get a smart meter to be able to switch to an EV tariff. Hoping To get this sorted ASAP and might need to find some cheeky free/cheap charging options in the meantime.

    1. @robertmacgregor2575 Avatar
      @robertmacgregor2575

      It will still be cheaper charging at home.

    2. @salibaba Avatar
      @salibaba

      ZapMap and Electroverse have filters for that 😊

    3. @stephenballantyne Avatar
      @stephenballantyne

      @@robertmacgregor2575 not if I can park up at the hotel in town that has free chargers 😉

    4. @leem5894 Avatar
      @leem5894

      Very expensive to charge publicly, better off at home even at day rate prices

  8. @Eric-xq4dy Avatar
    @Eric-xq4dy

    Pennsylvania resident here — why am I watching a UK EV channel? Because your whole team is fantastic. Fun, great reviews, world wide coverage too. I can’t help but think if the US gets rid of govt intervention (tax credits and mandates) we could have a lot more EV models over here???

    1. @geoffreyevans6133 Avatar
      @geoffreyevans6133

      Dropping tariffs on Chinese EVs would work…

  9. @e-trippingwithadamgebbett8024 Avatar
    @e-trippingwithadamgebbett8024

    I Brought my 2018 e-golf because Jonny Smith liked it. Also test drives were impossible as I had to wait for a year for a factory order. However I never been involved in a quicker handover at the dealership. I think he was frightened I would hand it back.

  10. @kcwolf4624 Avatar
    @kcwolf4624

    Took the plunge ……bought myself a 1 year old polestar this week ,after a test drive , first impression……I absolutely love it ,it’s soooo cool

  11. @Stumpy.blesma Avatar
    @Stumpy.blesma

    As a limbless veteran (RAF), I was looking for an my first EV, I watched lots of car reviews from the Electrifying Team and had come down to a choice of 2, either Skoda Enyaq, preferred choice, or Hyundai Kona. Unfortunately, delivery of an Enyaq I was told would be 26 weeks, a Local car dealership (Arnold Clark) could get me a Hyundai Kona within 6 weeks. Thanks to your reviews, I’m now driving an adapted (Hand Controls) Hyundai Kona. I absolutely love this car, and I’m glad that I bit the bullet and went fully electric. Many thanks to the team at Electrifying for doing a great job of informing us all, of the good and not so good points of the current EV lineups. Keep up the good work guys. 💙

  12. @dewarmc Avatar
    @dewarmc

    Oh and as for the Capri, I can see that cropping up in a County fair Raffle, or the modern day version of Bullseye, for those “This is what you could have won” moments… 🙂

  13. @maxgasper Avatar
    @maxgasper

    So, in July I bought my first EV, a used I-Pace – still a gamble because it is still at the dealership getting stuff fixed (came with 2-year main dealer warranty, wouldn’t have bought it otherwise). Bought that because it’s the prettiest way to save money.

    After watching this episode I find myself trying to convince my wife to buy an ORA, which I don’t particularly like, just so we can put the Mini in the garage (2nd gen JCW convertible, it’s worth trying to preserve it). The money saved in fuel will literally pay for the lease!

  14. @karlInSanDiego Avatar
    @karlInSanDiego

    My wife got a ride in a coworker’s Lotus Elise at a company picnic, a super rare treat in the USA. Years later, we were looking to replace our 11 year old Z3, and she said out of the blue, “What kind of gas mileage does an Elise get?” She didn’t have to ask me twice. I’m a lifelong sportscar fan, and realizing she was interested, I found a 2 year old, low miles example 2 hours away. In the meantime, I’d snagged a test drive at a Las Vegas dealer, and I was sold. We owned that car for 12 years, put 60k miles on it, and managed to sell it for the same money we’d paid. We replaced it with an i4 eDrive40, which is more than twice its weight.

    BTW, the Elise got 30 mpg using a Celica GTS, Yamaha tuned motor.

  15. @karlInSanDiego Avatar
    @karlInSanDiego

    Hydrogen fueling stations were so unreliable here in SoCal. Many relied on local electrolyzers and they couldn’t keep up production to match their limited consumers. So people would show up and realize it’d be hours before they were ready to dispense. And then the complex pumps would fail, not unlike DC Fast Chargers. But with hydrogen, you cannot fill at home.

  16. @appkazoo5925 Avatar
    @appkazoo5925

    If a PHEV only makes sense if you can charge at home then they don’t make any sense because if you can charge at home you should get a BEV

  17. @salibaba Avatar
    @salibaba

    Be sure to explain to dad that if you run out of fuel in an FCEV, you can’t simply walk to the fuel station with a Jerry can and pick up a gallon of h2.

  18. @barriepotter3753 Avatar
    @barriepotter3753

    Thank you for answering my question about car leasing. I asked the same question of Auto trader at the same time, and have yet to receive a reply. I’m sorry I rambled on originally, and in future will try to keep it one question at a time, so thanks again.

  19. @bellshooter Avatar
    @bellshooter

    I bought my MG ZS EV after seeing it at a car park! James Coates had a Press car and advertised he was going to be at the Bosworth Battle field car park, and it was a great intro offer, £3500 Gov grant and £3500 MG rebate for first 1000 cars, that was me. Leaf replaced!

  20. @leem5894 Avatar
    @leem5894

    I’m on my 2nd EV, Mokka e and now Kia EV6. Driven over 85k miles in under 3 years and saved thousands!

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