Supermarkets are just an example of destination charging, wider availability of standard 7kW (or even 22kW 3 phase) chargers at places where you will stay for a while would remove a lot of the need for high speed fast DC charging except o long journeys. Essentially Ionicity would be the equivalent of a motorway services petrol station.
yes and? itās the best looking SUV (and driving) out there. If the Macan EV were out in the wild in my time frame it might be top of the listā¦
Itās an ugly fucking blob, Mr. Pot.
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Yes, you dickhead. I was hoisting you by your own petard.
as usual you talking bollocks
4x4ās and SUVās are not about looking good, they are about practicality.
The Macan is by no stretch of the imagination a good looking car, at best it ducked a few swings from the ugly stick wielded by VAG to distance itself from the Q5 and tugone(out).
But if you like it, you like it and thatās ok.
thats fine by meā¦clearly others are getting hot under the collar about what pleases me aesthetically
BHUT YORE RONG!!! 
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We have seen your posts in the shoe thread.
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Coming from the forum cryarse-in-chief, this is really quite something.
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Blink and you miss 45 posts.
EV cars look dull as no one has the money or time to create them to be fancy just yet. The main companies are playing catch up and the costs are going into the tech not the car.
And, they are all build to be efficient instead of being pretty.
One day we may get both.
What we need are cars that donāt look different to what we have now, and have the same space, and usability. They just do the same job as the old cars, but electrically. If they donāt make boring, affordable, spacious, small, medium cars, they will struggle trying to switch us over at the expensive end of the range.
What I need to be able to look forward to, is being able to replace my petrol car in 4-5 years, with a used EV equivalent, for the same money and performance, as a petrol car.
Rubbish, itās all about whoās car is bigger/fancier. You get no more practically than a decent estate.
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new tagline, shirley ?
You really want to change it?
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Yeah, but it doesnāt take one hundred and twelvety nine hours to fill up an ICE (shopping included).
Iām not sure I buy that. Looking up some numbers, there are about 38m cars in the UK and about 2.5m sales per year, so cars are lasting about 15 years. I think that is about the lifetime of an ICE car.
Therefore, the right number of cars are being sold. The issue of shiny then becomes a matter of who suffers the depreciation cost - your shallow look at me driver pays because he is charged for about 50% depreciation in his 3 years of ownership, but ultimately thatās an economic decision for him to make.
I guess manufacturers could be criticised for not making cars that last longer than 15 years, but in that time cars get a lot safer and loads more gadgets, some of which might be worthwhile!
Itās easy to criticise the leasing model, but in many ways it allows the driver to get the car they want without having to stump up a load of cash up front, and facilitates a second hand market that presumably is doing well. Iām not sure that things are particularly broken right now.
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you are right - everyone i know who leases, only cares about monthly repayments and the deposit.