Like most decisions by a carmaker, its cheaper that way. You save at least 25 cents/car with the combo bulb. Thats huge for a car maker. If an engineer figures out how to save $0.05/unit on a high volume line, he has paid his salary for the year.

I have to look now. I doubt it is a wall plug, as a german car, it would have a different shape (larger, and round).

In "Normal" you get an 87 mph limit.

You also get to game the euro range test. The modes are there for "limp home", boosting the range when the batteries are almost empty. By adding the button, they can run official tests in ++, and inflate their score. US test range is 80 something, Euro range (same car, different testing cycle) is over 100 miles.

Top speed (unless you explicitly push a button each time you start) is 87. (ecu limited).

The eco modes are there for two reasons, they are the cars "limp home" modes, the car switches to + at 20 miles range left, and ++ at 10.

Top speed is 87, unless you hit the eco button every time you start it.

Top speed is 87 in normal mode. The ECO modes are there when you are making a trip on the edge of your normal range. They are also what the car uses when you are close to empty. (like "limp" mode in most fuel injection systems) Basically at 20 miles range left, it switches to + mode, and at 10 miles left, it goes…

I do wish that was an option for us. Sue would be more comfortable with a hybrid, and the plug in portion would mean that for 95% of the time, the ICE would be off.

Your gallon of gasoline took an average of 4kwh of electricity to refine. That much power will take the eGolf 16 miles.

We bought the eGolf last month. Just got to 500 miles today. One of the reasons that we wound up with the VW rather than the Leaf or the I3, is that the thing looked and drove like an ordinary Golf, not some bug eyed, or two toned freak. The differences are tiny - a blue stripe across the front, LED headlights…

I got the press release from chargepoint today. This is nice to see, right now the nearest level 3 charger that I can use is 177 miles away. Thanks to the connector conspiracy, there are several that I can't use, one less than a mile away.

One of the reasons we chose the eGolf over the Leaf, was that it just looked like an ordinary golf.

Why aren't small diesels available here, why are base engines bigger here, and why is it starting to change:

One of the selling points of the VW Car-Net system that was included on the model we bought is that includes access to car location, which they expose as a "where did I park" feature in the phone app. So what did the F+I try to sell us during closing? ... Lo Jack. They also wanted >750 for road hazard protection on…

As to fraternity, it was in the sense of "a group of like minded people", not a formal organization. Its been my observation that the average apparent IQ of a group of teenage males after dark is proportional to 1/n where n is the number present. Add alcohol, and its more like 1/n^2.

Its a light car by current standards. I suspect fraternity.... Go collect a half dozen shaved apes from the weight room, and let stupidity take its course. It is heavy end down.

You will take a hit on range at those low temperatures, but that's partly because the battery will have to spend some of its capacity heating itself. Li batteries freeze at -20C, and they have a heater in the battery pack to deal with this. In the case of the Leaf, the battery can keep it self warm for a full week…

You could kill two birds, by getting hold of a Tesla Roadster, you would get the elise handling, and the electric acceleration.

Put this in perspective, take one product of Modena, which when driven on the EPA's rollers returns double digit (barely) MPG. Substitute a Stig for the tech following the test cycle, and replace the rollers with a real track, and get under 2 MPG.