love the styling, and do like the mini-x3/5 look but this being the entry* level electric at £52K! jeez, must be some rich people still knocking about in a cost of living crisis
£52k. FFS that’s nearly what my M340i xDrive cost. And in that, I don’t have to wait around for 90 mins trying to get a charge. Yes I know BMW claim it will charge up to 80% double quick, but try doing that when the entire street is plugged in… And that interior is bloody horrible. God I’m grumpy this evening but in all seriousness, I want to know who is buying these and why they appeal.
Not many people need to boil a kettle with their car but . . . . if we run out of gas this winter . . . . which Vlad the Impaler is doing his incompetent best to engineer, and we then suffer power outages as a result, you will be grinning from ear to ear if the battery in your car can provide V2L to keep the lights in your house on and the boiler and its water pump humming.
@@JamboLinnman It would not need any elaborate cabling at all, assuming that you have an outlet to charge your car at home, the electricity will run through the same cables, from the car to your home. There is what you might call a ‘black box’ which controls the direction of flow of the electrical current, from the grid to the car to charge it or from the car to the grid. I don’t know in which part of the world you reside but, in the UK, an electrical utility supplier called Octopus Energy was offering Nissan LEAFs on a lease, with a V2G setup included. V2G, by the way, is Vehicle to Grid. The benefit to the utility supplier is that it can supply power to you at night, when there is a surplus of wind and other power and wholesale prices are a fraction of daytime prices and, in the early evening, when demand is high and electricity wholesale prices are high, you SELL the electricity stored in your car battery back the utility company which can supply it to other homes. The only problem with Octopus Energy deal was that they only supplied the Nissan LEAF, which was not my first choice of car although you could do worse, and the lease cost back in 2020 was £350 odd per month, which seemed to be rather a lot . . . . what a difference a couple of years of plague, supply chain difficulties and missile exchanges makes! If everyone did this, then there would be much less demand for ‘peaker’ gas fired power stations to be brought online in the evenings. Car owners tend to worry that their car battery will become degraded by daily charging and discharging, however, Octopus keep the car battery charge between about 40% and 60%. Octopus claimed there was no measurable degradation, even with a Nissan LEAF, which does not have a great reputation for battery degradation. Newer battery chemistries, such as LFP, have a life of 4,000 full cycles and, therefore, if the charge/discharge is say only 40%, from 30% to 70%, the battery life would be 10,000 days. That is about 30 years. You might be thinking about getting a new car after 30 years? octopus.energy/blog/vehicle-to-grid/
The way you said 'the future is electric, apparently' was quite possibly the most honest 4 seconds of journalism I've seen in a very long time. I'm surprised greta hasn't had YT attempt to cancel you for such an outburst against the narrative. O yeah, the car. Meh?
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52k... what kind of person can still afford these cars? There's nothing entry level about this, at all.
love the styling, and do like the mini-x3/5 look but this being the entry* level electric at £52K! jeez, must be some rich people still knocking about in a cost of living crisis
Really enjoyed the review entertaining whilst being informative! Thanks Tim
What was the average consumption or range?
£52k. FFS that’s nearly what my M340i xDrive cost. And in that, I don’t have to wait around for 90 mins trying to get a charge. Yes I know BMW claim it will charge up to 80% double quick, but try doing that when the entire street is plugged in… And that interior is bloody horrible. God I’m grumpy this evening but in all seriousness, I want to know who is buying these and why they appeal.
BIK company cars
Hosenlatz von Hanz Zimmer
Ooh la-la! *futuristic zoom noises*
@@TimRodieDrivesStuff That was my best guess at Codpiece... Well Google's
I’ve ordered a fully loaded iX1 M Sport.
It's 2022. Buying an EV without V2L is like buying a house with no door. Excuse the bad analogy.
Ok I give in. What is V2L?
I’ve ordered an iX1 without your door. Who the hell needs to boil a kettle using their car?
Not many people need to boil a kettle with their car but . . . . if we run out of gas this winter . . . . which Vlad the Impaler is doing his incompetent best to engineer, and we then suffer power outages as a result, you will be grinning from ear to ear if the battery in your car can provide V2L to keep the lights in your house on and the boiler and its water pump humming.
@@PhilipFly11 what kind of elaborate cabling set up would be required to facilitate doing that?!
@@JamboLinnman
It would not need any elaborate cabling at all, assuming that you have an outlet to charge your car at home, the electricity will run through the same cables, from the car to your home.
There is what you might call a ‘black box’ which controls the direction of flow of the electrical current, from the grid to the car to charge it or from the car to the grid.
I don’t know in which part of the world you reside but, in the UK, an electrical utility supplier called Octopus Energy was offering Nissan LEAFs on a lease, with a V2G setup included. V2G, by the way, is Vehicle to Grid.
The benefit to the utility supplier is that it can supply power to you at night, when there is a surplus of wind and other power and wholesale prices are a fraction of daytime prices and, in the early evening, when demand is high and electricity wholesale prices are high, you SELL the electricity stored in your car battery back the utility company which can supply it to other homes.
The only problem with Octopus Energy deal was that they only supplied the Nissan LEAF, which was not my first choice of car although you could do worse, and the lease cost back in 2020 was £350 odd per month, which seemed to be rather a lot . . . . what a difference a couple of years of plague, supply chain difficulties and missile exchanges makes!
If everyone did this, then there would be much less demand for ‘peaker’ gas fired power stations to be brought online in the evenings.
Car owners tend to worry that their car battery will become degraded by daily charging and discharging, however, Octopus keep the car battery charge between about 40% and 60%. Octopus claimed there was no measurable degradation, even with a Nissan LEAF, which does not have a great reputation for battery degradation.
Newer battery chemistries, such as LFP, have a life of 4,000 full cycles and, therefore, if the charge/discharge is say only 40%, from 30% to 70%, the battery life would be 10,000 days. That is about 30 years.
You might be thinking about getting a new car after 30 years?
octopus.energy/blog/vehicle-to-grid/
Wi probably buy one this week
Stuka!🤣
The way you said 'the future is electric, apparently' was quite possibly the most honest 4 seconds of journalism I've seen in a very long time. I'm surprised greta hasn't had YT attempt to cancel you for such an outburst against the narrative.
O yeah, the car. Meh?
What colour is this pls
Frozen Pure Grey I *think*
Using the idrive in a left hand drive is fine. Try it when you’re driving RHD. You’ll definitely struggle unless you’re left handed
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