The young BMW salesman is on the phone bright and early. " Just a wee courtesy call to make sure you're enjoying the car and know how to use all it's features ". This is a not so subtle way of reminding us to fill out the manufacturers survey scoring our pre-purchase sales 'experience'.
A chilly minus three this morning. Lesson #1 about the new car - if you use the heater to defrost the windscreen the battery drains very quickly. In fact it drains remarkably quickly. The promised 50 mile range seems to fall by half. Heated seats, ambient lighting and a system that projects the instruments onto the windscreen all seem to 'gobble' range.
The sacred turf of the Old Course blanketed in frost. The fancy 5 star hotel by the treacherous 17th hole busy but not full. We discover from a Texan visitor in a Stetson that father and son golfing tours are an American thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBPLB9lrD8 Mothers and daughters and non-golfing sons are presumably happy to fend for themselves at Thanksgiving.
'Quiet Please' notices appearing on doors in town. Exam season proper starts a week today but some poor souls are already being tested. Lets hope they have the consolation of finishing early.
The shoe repair shops mechanical mascot has not yet been decked out for the festive season. I'd give it a week before a Santa hat appears.
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I have some bad news about the promised range. I got my Plug-in Hybrid last November. Range in advertising 45 miles. Enough to get m into Aberdeen and back comfortably, yes?
The first thing they tell you is don't fill the battery. Mine is now set at 80%.
The first thing they don't tell you is... winter. I was getting 17-20 miles until the weather warmed up. The highest I ever saw was 33.
I've been over it with them. It still bugs me, but I'm reconciled. Everything sucks electricity, so my constant standard is 25-27.
(I still love it, and now the tariff providers are getting their acts together, the cost is falling too.)
My nephew just mentioned that his dream is to come to St Andrews for a round of golf.
The flight into EDI is much quicker than holding over LHR for an hour.
That golden morning light is beautiful. 50 miles? That seems low :(
Hari OM
At first I thought "50 miles???" Then remembered it is a hybrid you have not a full EV. Admittedly, I tend not to use the heated seats but I do use the heated window and occasionally the blower/cab heater; yes it sucks some of the mileage but only maybe 10 to 15% over an hour journey... then again, I prefer cooler temps for driving. Conversely, I utilise the drive battery to feed my 'house batteries' each day, and that takes around five miles off the range. My van will give me 160-165 miles in the summer, 145-150 in winter. Not that I use all that capacity. I rarely do more than half that on any given day and there's always a charger near wherever I opt to park. Like now, in Banchory... YAM xx
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I live in Northern Alberta. An electric car is not an option. It's currently -15C and snowing. It will hit -40 at least twice before next spring.
We know someone that bought a Ford Volt pick up truck. It was sold before it was a year old. Just not viable.
This climate is not for electric vehicles. Some of my coworkers drive 100 miles each way to work.
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