Battery Vehicle Society

Floyster, appologies for hijacking your thread for my own ends, part of my motivation to make car 3 an EV is evangelism. Where we live my daughter is one of the eldest of a group of teens (all good kids, no hoodies) she will probably be the first to pass her test and have a car of her own. Most of t...

Items I forgot the first time

5/ 35-40 mile range (Thats a round trip to Chichester or Brighton from Arundel)
6/ Should be capable of 45-50 MPH for times when the A27 cannot be avoided.


Carry on laughing

Mark

You would have thought it would be easy, that big zero tax carrot should have everyone banging on the door of EV dealers. It's almost like it's too cheap, where's the catch! Anyway I believe there is lots of scope for many households to incoporate an EV into their 'transport portfolio' (don't that s...

Hi Chris, don't you hate it when work gets in the way of the internet!! I know I probably didn't show it but I was every bit impressed with your Berlingo as you were with the Prius. We talked about motor power ratings and I didn't know the answers on Sunday, well I have done some research and can no...

Hey Booboo, looking at your photos it has cleaned up nicley, I viewed it during the ebay auction and the white one looked very grubby. The pile of bits in the back put me off too. I see you are based in Crawley, that is an area I sometimes cover at work, I will be looking out for you when you get it...

The Prius is never going to be cheaper to run than an EV but the numbers warrant close scrutiny up against a 'conventional' car. I have said elsewhere that my Prius is a company car and I will give more details about how that works out later, if you choose to own one yourself I can do the basics but...

Ok I've beeen beating about the bush long enough, time for some real life 'driving a Prius' stuff. I mentioned that on the HCH the centre console was like a normal car well on the Prius it's not. The centre console is just an arm rest and has some handy storage. The drive selector is on the dash and...

I feel it's good to own up to your weaknesses before someonelse points them out. There have been instances of Prius buyers not finding out until after the cheque is cashed that you can't tow with it. I imagine that the original design brief for the developers had a few comprimises in it and if you c...

Chris, I have had a few conversations with people who have expressed an interest in car parks or on petrol station forecourts (I was trying to remember how the pump worked)! I would be a bit wary if someone followed me home but they would get my attention if they had an EV. When I went to view the C...

Hello again, just to keep things fair I thought I would put up a few words about the Honda Civic Hybrid as the Prius seems to get all the press (good and bad) the HCH is a bit of a Cindarella. I had a test drive of the HCH when I was making my decision and while it didn't 'do it for me' it has some ...