Thankfully Android Automotive is becoming a thing. I test drove a Polestar 2 recently, and that system is great.

It’s their first ground up EV crossover, but yeah. EQC and EQA are both on sale and popular in Europe. I see them all the time in the UK. Then there’s the EQB that’s about to arrive. 

A very new Vauxhall Vivaro Combi van/minibus.

It wasn’t just the legroom, I felt like my head was through the roof. I was definitely glad it was just him dropping me at the station 10 mins away!

I first thought it was that Sony EV concept they showed a few years ago when I saw the pic at the top of the article!

The Renault Zoe has sold very well, although it’s now fairly tired and Renault’s decision to remove curtain airbags in the recent facelift is baffling. Stellantis have some great small EVs too- the e-208 and Corsa-e for example, both have about 250km real world range and aren’t really compromised compared to their ICE…

I’m not convinced it is though. At least here in the UK, the vast majority of new car buyers are buying/leasing with finance. My parents have just got a Skoda Enyaq (basically an ID.4), and were comparing it to the Skoda Karoq, which is a similar ish size although slightly smaller. The Enyaq has a higher monthly lease…

I’m the same sort of height, and I really struggled in the passenger seat of my old housemates’s ND. Not even as if I’m not used to small cars- I drive a Seat Ibiza which is Fiesta sized. 

My old housemate has an ND MX-5. He gave me a lift once, and I could barely get in the car. Even with the seat all the way back. I’m not small - 188cm and 105kg (6'2 and 230lb) but I’m not abnormally tall and I’m more muscular not fat. He drove me to the train station about 10 mins away, and I was struggling with…

The disconnect though is in how much more expensive the battery powertrain is though.

It all depends on market. In China, a small EV makes sense due to cost, congestion, etc etc etc. The same applies to their ICE cars too. Yes big vehicles do sell, but a lot of small cars sell well in China, whereas the same cannot be said for the US.

That would be the ID.3.

Maybe she’s scared of taking too much of her heart medication?

I was told (at my all-boys school) that whilst different guys might have different sized penises when soft, that because people’s blood pressure, that everyone’s penis was the same size when erect.

I think so. Plug-in hybrids too. A clunky step on the way to pure EV, but a notable and important step nonetheless. Small steps without major disruption for most people, but still giving improvements. 

We have those too. Just that having actual bulbs increases the visibility EG when rounding a corner, or if the car is dirty. 

Might be a Britishism!

But that’s politics isn’t it. Defer it by a few years, until it’s someone else’s problem. Doesn’t matter if the cost is now 10x what it would be if you fixed it now, because it’s someone else’s problem. 

Parking lights and sidelights are *not* the same thing, at least to these British ears. And me and my friends from Ye Olde Signale, the local car lighting fetishist bar here in Manchester, will fight you for it. Once we’ve finished with our slightly too warm beer.

The have for some reason sold relatively well here in the UK. I have no idea why, but there we go. Quite why you’d buy one over something like a Skoda Karoq or Peugeot 3008 I don’t know.