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#2852953 18-Jan-2022 15:09

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Obraik: $300?! That's like half of what I've spent charging my car over the last 46,000km I've driven it.

Same, only spent $380.99 on charging on my EV in 3.5 years!

So you guys are the ones clogging up the free chargers when the rest of us are gasping for juice...

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#2852988 18-Jan-2022 16:29

Nah! Most of my public charging has been at Superchargers for free or at the hotel when I get to my destination. Otherwise it's all been at home at $0.09/kWh

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#2853003 18-Jan-2022 16:40

With my night rate charging, my car costs under 3c per km to run, even including inefficiency in the charger itself.

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#2853018 18-Jan-2022 17:28

SaltyNZ:

dacraka:

Same, only spent $380.99 on charging on my EV in 3.5 years!

So you guys are the ones clogging up the free chargers when the rest of us are gasping for juice...

Wow, I didn't know I was going to get a response like that from you, SaltyNZ...

No, I used to use my one free hour of power with Electric Kiwi every night to charge, and now most recently Contact Energy with three free hours of power.

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#2853023 18-Jan-2022 17:42

dacraka:

Wow, I didn't know I was going to get a response like that from you, SaltyNZ...

No, I used to use my one free hour of power with Electric Kiwi every night to charge, and now most recently Contact Energy with three free hours of power.

Lol, I'm just kidding. :-D (Sorry if it didn't sound like I was).

Did you get a faster AC wall charger installed? We've found that a 16A charger (bearing in mind that the Leaf only actually charges at about 14.5A) is more than capable of recovering our daily mileage, but of course it won't manage that in an hour or three. More like 5 although once I have a car that I don't have to nurse all the way it, ah, might be more.

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#2853025 18-Jan-2022 17:53

make sure someone doesn't steal your brake pads when you get your new car

https://www.thedrive.com/news/43876/tesla-model-3-owner-discovers-car-was-delivered-missing-a-brake-pad

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#2853039 18-Jan-2022 18:29

Unlikely to happen here in NZ where we have first world things like Warrants of Fitnesses that catch that sorta stuff.

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#2853060 18-Jan-2022 19:40

Batman:
make sure someone doesn't steal your brake pads when you get your new car

https://www.thedrive.com/news/43876/tesla-model-3-owner-discovers-car-was-delivered-missing-a-brake-pad

Better than stealing catalytic converters; there are dozens of recent thefts reported in Canterbury alone.

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#2853072 18-Jan-2022 20:14

SaltyNZ:
From the article:

The firm does not expect any low-price electric vehicles to hit the Kiwi market in the next few years, stating that “there are no other EVs planned for launch that we are aware of, that are anywhere near $48,700 until beyond 2026”.

Except for the MG which is $49,990 on road already.

...then take $8625 off for the rebate. So just over $40k. The MG is very nice car. I own one.

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#2853075 18-Jan-2022 20:21

Obraik:

Unlikely to happen here in NZ where we have first world things like Warrants of Fitnesses that catch that sorta stuff.

Once it hits 3 years old. That's a lot of driving without a brake pad. You'd just about get away with it on some EVs, depending on regen strength.

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#2853082 18-Jan-2022 20:58

Linuxluver: The MG is very nice car. I own one.

It was a very close call between the MG and Model 3 for this purchase for me definitely.

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#2853087 18-Jan-2022 21:45

SaltyNZ:

dacraka:

Wow, I didn't know I was going to get a response like that from you, SaltyNZ...

No, I used to use my one free hour of power with Electric Kiwi every night to charge, and now most recently Contact Energy with three free hours of power.

Lol, I'm just kidding. :-D (Sorry if it didn't sound like I was).

Did you get a faster AC wall charger installed? We've found that a 16A charger (bearing in mind that the Leaf only actually charges at about 14.5A) is more than capable of recovering our daily mileage, but of course it won't manage that in an hour or three. More like 5 although once I have a car that I don't have to nurse all the way it, ah, might be more.

It’s hard to convey tone of voice in text so politely suggest putting an emoji like a winky face to convey jokes (otherwise it sounds like you are serious) (politely speaking of course).

Yes my car came with a faster wall charger.

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#2853157 19-Jan-2022 07:39

SaltyNZ:

Linuxluver: The MG is very nice car. I own one.

It was a very close call between the MG and Model 3 for this purchase for me definitely.

The one being sold in NZ is the runout model isn’t it?

The next generation one seems quite a lot more capable. Updated styling, new infotainment and instrumentation and a bigger battery.

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#2853159 19-Jan-2022 07:43

Dingbatt:

The one being sold in NZ is the runout model isn’t it?

The next generation one seems quite a lot more capable. Updated styling, new infotainment and instrumentation and a bigger battery.

Yes, new one is supposed to have a choice of 50 and 70-something batteries. Be interesting to see if the 50 stays at the same price when it lands in NZ.

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#2853161 19-Jan-2022 07:54

SaltyNZ:

Yes, new one is supposed to have a choice of 50 and 70-something batteries. Be interesting to see if the 50 stays at the same price when it lands in NZ.

The HS PHEV that it seems to share some bits with is mid $50Ks so I would expect it to be a little above the current pricing. The ZS does kind of own that budget space where you can get a brand new EV (after rebate) for under $50K. All the reviews I have watched on the new one indicate it is pretty good value and an improvement on the previous model.

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