Yep been using daily for my running about fine.

Have a look at the Central screen to see what Efficiency you are getting should be at least 3.9 to 4.1 miles/kWh​@@ChopsGarage

Guess so

It was no different 20 years ago. If you bought a car on drip feed, and didn't keep up the repayments, then it would be repossessed. Nothing has changed. The cost of living may explain why it's happening more often now.... More house repossessions are happening these days, for the same reason....

Finance on cars is no different to defaulting on a loan. Finance companies aren’t car dealers, just lenders money and charge you 10% for it

I'm back living in Northern Ireland after 20 years in Gloucester. Covered most of GB in my job. Those speed cameras, overheads and so on, did my head in. I reckon without them I would have been in Gloucester for 10 years!

The Kia Soul was tested at -12 and did 3.5 KWh compared to 3.9 at summer temps so around a 10% reduction.

You might lose 15% at worst...... That's my experience after 3+ years of EV ownership....

Many thanks

The 12v will be drained with those accessories before the main battery 🤣🤣

@@ChopsGarage What do you think charges the 12v battery?

@@kaptinkeiffThe low DC-DC converter in the power control unit

@@ChopsGarage Which naturally gets its power from the main HV battery, there are no free lunches unfortunately...the other guy is right about what the individuals at Kia were saying

@@kaptinkeiff where has the assumption of free power come from? Those items are charged from the 12v not the main battery. Therefore it will not diminish mileage capacity as the charging of the 12v has already been factored into the 95 mile max range

Go well but need care

I have to admit probably being a rubbish spouter but I love it lol. Even 100 miles lasts considerably longer than you think and simply plug it in when you come home and settle on the sofa

Get a night tarriff from edf for 8p/kwh. The car will do nearly 4 miles per kWh so it’s 2p/mile motoring 👍🏼 With older evs either no timers or apps just go to screwfix and get a smart socket. You can control it on your phone to charge your car at night the same as a new ev

Range of 100 miles when new & it is showing 97 miles and SOH drop of 5% after 40k miles means another 160k miles before the battery would be down to 75% which is the usual cutoff for battery warranty.

⁠@@eastwood978Not how it works with batteries. Battery degredation isn’t linear.

@@LorandHungary Battery SOH is fairly linear for most of its life so nothing to worry about at 95% although you are correct once below 75% the decline would speed up.

@@LorandHungary you are right - most degradation happens early! See Tesla studies

@@Lyndalewinder Correct. You usually see 2 to 3% degradation for the first 4 years or so, then it tends to slow.

Cheers I agree

That's UK average sale price

Cheers mate

Nice feedback

Yes is doing nicer stuff

Cheers Nick

Glad you enjoyed it

I did wonder if it was that engine

@@ChopsGarage take oil cap off and you can see the belt, same issues as ford ecoboost, I sold a 208 the other day and although it seemed OK it's very worrying, no fun with a blown engine coming back, I'm deffo not buying any more, but you should be OK at 30k, belt is easy to do on those anyway.

@@roystonvehicles9129 I’d be more worried about burning oil due to rings, very common on them. They are worse engines than the ecoboom

@@derekfleming3095 yes bud, had one the other day, it wasn't burning oil but it sounded awful, I'll deffo not be buying another.

The cross land is a horrible dull car and it’s not even a real vauxhall it’s a Peugeot in drag

I prefer that front end to the petrols

@@ChopsGarage as they say, you need to go to spec savers 😀

Good call

It depends how much a person is able to assess a car, rather than whether they're a trader or private individual (granted most traders know more than more private individuals!). There are bargains to be had if you're savvy but there's always an element of luck. I bought my current car at auction for £675. 3 years and 30k miles later it's still going strong and no major work needed.

@@markf4720 yes bud, I'm just sorting a freelander bought at auction, turbo actuator, steering column immobiliser fault, I had to limp back, but loads of purchases are ok.

I did say so didn't I, should not listen to Joe lol

No shit Sherlock, infinity Q30 & QX30 even built at Sunderland Nissan plant.

Bizarre that people in the trade know nothing about EVs and think Infiniti is Toyota brand 🫣

@@Lypiatt why bizarre? Over the last 20 yes how many variations of make, models, engines, drivetrains,spec levels do you think there have been? It would be far more bizarre for anyone to have the encyclopedic knowledge that would be required!

@@ChopsGarage A fair question. The reason I mentioned it was that the knowledge I expected you to have wasn't what you highlighted in your response above. It was basic broad industry level knowledge. I was a bit rude, perhaps I should have said I was a bit surprised 🙂

Cheers bud

Cheers, its outside on the extension lead now lol

@ChopsGarage my mate ran his Tesla for 3 years using the same system but I do worry about the heat generated on am extension cable!

Knew it

No been along in the car with it all on the go did not reduce the range. Understandably will be drawing from the 12v but I'd assume that's charged during the main battery back recharging and regenerative braking while charging so unless it was completely drained and needed to pull from main battery would it reduce range. As said I've used it for 2 weeks with all gismos on the go and as stated only the blowers reduced range.

If course it reduces the range, but by a tiny amount. The motor uses 20kW cruising, 80kW pushing hard. Your radio is 50w. Stuff like heated seats 150w. Blower/air con is 1-3kW

Glad you enjoyed it

100k miles ?? 200k miles 300k.miles Condition Service history ? Can make a difference in price by thousands and thousands

I have to say if I had a bigger 4X4 style with say 250 range its all the car id need

Many thanks

Nothing wrong with gaps the driver’s door is not shut properly and is on the latch

Been doing it 3 days no issue, it's charged by car batteries

I think that you are correct about the charging of the 12V battery. It is obvious that the Kia techs don't understand basic Physics, but what would you expect from grease monkeys who think that Electricity is a new and wondrous thing !!

I think it depends if its of an age n miles that you see them retail. If it is then run.

Yes it has, on that in morning

I did say Nissan didn't I, that Joe eh lol

The Insurance is one problem with the Range Rovers but there’s plenty more 😅

Thought that myself, with 99 mile range it must have taken ages to get down to Devon.

Not really worth my time

You too!

Who's doing that commute 🤣🤣

I've used last 3 days done me great for my commute each day

The heated seats would use far less energy than the heater... Plus you wouldn't use the heater for a full journey anyway. I never have with my EV.

I use the blower a lot as my ev steams up when it’s raining etc but when the heaters on low it only uses maybe 1/2 Mile per kw

There is. You can use an OBD via the car's diagnostic socket. This can provide you with a print-out of the battery's state of health in percentage terms.

The OBD will show the state of health which is the overall condition. It will also show battery cell voltage deviation, if it shows Zero it means the battery is as happy as it can be. If you have a deviation of more than 0.5 volts there is definitely a larger measure of degradation. In terms of testing if you have the car already you can charge to 100% and take the charge down as low as you dare. You can drive how you like, efficiency won't affect this test. Divide how many miles you did by the number of miles per kWh as reported on the dash. That will tell you how many kWhs or energy you have used, added to estimated left after the discharge which again you can get from miles left divided by miles per kWh. You know what your battery size should be, minus what you measured will be the degradation. To verify this you can charge again to 100% and see how many kWhs you put back into the battery. It sounds complicated but it really isn't. Another test is a range test but this is more difficult and takes time. Charge the car to 100% and drive at moderate speeds not on motorways and see how far the car goes without the heating on. You know what the car's original range was, what did you get. This one you have to do continuously as you want the battery to get warm and stay warm. In a 300 mile range car this will take 7 hours or more. I've done degradation tests as it needs no extra time to do it. Can't be bothered with range. Dealer level type scan tools can get things like battery capacity available negating the need for these tests.

Either way it’ll do about 80miles per charge all year and cost 2p per mile when charged on a 3 pin plug in an 8p/kwh night tarrif

A lot of the reason the early evs like leafs etc batteries have lasted so well is now being attributed to most of them being charged on granny cables or old fashioned 3kw chargers.

Found it's pretty bang on those miles

Not bad i had a nissan leaf for a few months 20 tho miles on it didnt get no where near the miles stated @145 ish in real life i got about 100 miles on a good day but do like the look of your kia i must admit @@ChopsGarage

Charging at home on a 3 pin plug with a standard ev tariff anyone can have it’ll cost 2p per mile to run. There’s your selling point

The battery never goes completely flat, as it has a buffer to prevent that happening.

@@Brian-om2hh it was meant as a humorous comment bud, I didn't really mean James would go out with his top don, ha, ha.

I've always found him ok

@@ChopsGarage disses his customers, bad crack

@@ChopsGarage wannabe actor. Team up with car uk, you and him would get on great

Yeah...agree , he,s everything thats wrong in flipping cars....just seems untrustworthy ...instinct 😮

Joes alright 👍🏼 He just forgets he’s being recorded sometimes

Many thanks

Range Rover went wrong 2 days later

@@ChopsGarage oh well, maybe best then

And......

@@ChopsGarage Having had an EV in the early days I have experience of them to some degree. After eight years I am dumfound at the report you received, I would have thought 50/60 percent at the very best. As you stated it only had a maximum distance of around 100 miles from new I believe. That means a small battery is fitted to it. Watching your channel I just wish we had someone in Yorkshire as honest as yourself, I really do not want you to get your fingers burnt with an electric milk float as they are called. If the battery were to fail within your generous warranty period and the manufacturers warranty has expired, 15k to 20k to replace it?. They are ok to drive as you say, but in the real world, not for for purpose, yet. Best of best luck with it mate you truly deserve it.👍

I know me neither but Im not letting anyone else in door at dealers lol

@@ChopsGarage yes bud

lol

Evening Stevie

@@ChopsGarage Evening James, I think you have won hands down with this purchase mate 👍👍 Joe will be well pi**ed off mate😊😊

Why did they sell then?

If you really do long journeys, and often, no but if you do short journeys perfect. Looks are an opinion not a fact of course

@ChopsGarage any journey so much better without range anxiety, so limiting, and sorry but like most ev's it is ugly

@@rossanderson7553 but I get range anxiety on my diesel range rover when it gets low and go and fill it up and when I did with the EV I plugged it in. I don't think you have run one. Again looks are not facts but simply opinions

You’ll get endless negatives from people who don’t own evs and positives from people who do

@@simonwhitcombe841 agree

You don't let anyone in door at main dealers , take it all

Well if they were not they would all be piled up somewhere I guess

Yes. Sales of used EV's are up around 70% so far this year....

If they are cheap enough 😊😊

@@thindo Fair enough. We sell refurbished Dell computers with warranty, every nutter wants a guaranteed battery which costs £70 a pop (on a machine selling for £160).

What use? Well is you do say 20 miles at a day, 5 days use.

I know lol

There’s always one 😂

It's a reference to Alan Partridge. 🤣

I bet he parks it outside well away from anything flammable though... :)