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Yeah - EV drivers are especially disinterested in who runs the company. Tesla drivers even more so...

The 100kW update got released last month. Both 100kW charging and OTAs get unlocked with the same at-dealer upgrade (Jag's reference number for the upgrade is H159). I had expected that H159 update was the one they were doing at the US landing port. Maybe not. Either way, if you don't already...

80% charge (187 EPA miles) for the Jaguar in 42 minutes is currently available at 49 sites in the USA. There will be at least another 8 live over the next four weeks.

Strictly speaking, Volkswagen AG owns all of Volkswagen Group of America, which in turn owns all of ElectrifyAmerica, the organisation that's installing the chargers. So yes, they are explicitly installing chargers. Unless you mean that they are getting construction firms to do the...

If you spot it on a map. the map of stations promised for 2016, and the map of stations promised for 2017 are both at Electrified Thinking That'll give you an idea of whether it was a new promise for 2018, or a holdover from earlier years.

Two or three of 2016's North Dakota stations have recently got planning permits, so maybe stations will appear there in 2019.

This will be at least the third year running that Tesla have said this. There are whole routes promised for 2016 which have not been started yet.

Yes - you can even download while you drive. (The swapover happens once the car is switched off)

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And my answer is that clearly, they are sales, as they are resulting in actual handovers of actual vehicles to actual customers, and actual registrations of ownership with actual government agencies. Sorry if that was insufficiently clear.

Customer handovers started a month ago.(13th October). Each dealer in the Netherlands is handing over an average of about 10 I-Paces per week. Norway's vehicle registration system provides real-time reporting on vehicle registrations, and confirms I-Pace sales have begun there. In the UK, my...

Given that CCS disallows adaptor cables, you'll be waiting a while. (I'm assuming it's disallowed because the High Power Chargers use active-cooling on the cables)

Customer cars have had the 100kW OTA since Bjorn made that video.

CCS DCFC is available at ~1,100 locations in the USA (compared to 577 Supercharger locations) The Jag has 100kW charging now. (It had 83kW before a late October OTA). 100kW charging is live in both Europe and America. Initial taper and final taper is lower than Teslas', so there is a smaller...

Compliance may not have a spirit. The agreement certainly did.

Panasonic are already selling the cells to Tesla at below cost.

I'm intrigued as to how Robyn Denholm will be able to effect any greater control or restraint over Elon Musk in the role of Chair of the Board, than she did in her last four years as a member of the Board, and Chair of the Audit Committee. It has the feel of compliance with the letter of the...

Some cars arrive home at 5, some at 7, some at midnight. Some cars need to leave at 6am, some at 8am. Some cars need to replenish 200 miles of range, some need 100 miles, some need 30. Many will vary from day to day, some will vary occasionally. All in all, it's best left to groups of cars to...

There are lots of pilot schemes live, right now, in Europe, and often they feed their results directly into Government policy. The know-how gets spread widely and fast. The Netherlands (where they are based) is probably the second-most BEV intensive vehicle market in the world after Norway...

Autocar got two different figures for two different driving styles: "driven modestly, the red I-Pace has covered 239 miles on a charge. The briskly driven blue I-Pace needed an electron infusion at 208 miles, which is not vastly less given that it was driven a lot harder". -- Autocar Top Gear...

All consistent with the disclaimer text on the Jaguar website that's been up for a few weeks now, ever since the Jaguar EPA estimate was reduced by 6 miles to 234. (The officila WLTP range was also reduced by 6 miles, when moving from pre-production to production cars). "2019 Jaguar I-PACE...

And it finally has a zoom on it!

The model appears to be that VW HQ fund the roll-out with their Dieselgate penance money, then it's expected to be self-funding once that money runs out. For comparison, Tesla value the Supercharger network at $500 million, and the VW penance money is about $2billion. Potentially this means...

There are three accessible stations between Grand Junction and Denver. One station open 24/7 at a dealer in Glenwood Springs. Two stations in Aspen. Aspen requires going off the most direct route, but still facilitates a trip across the Rockies.

ElectrifyAmerica revamped their web-site a week or two ago. https://www.electrifyamerica.com/locations/ has changed to: Locate a charger | Electrify America

Elevation plays a massive role - and it can work to your advantage as much as to your disadvantage. Like I said in the post, the miles are road miles, not flying car miles. And like I said, if you are driving uphill, you can use one of the three stations en route. The biggest elevation...

Grand Junction to Denver. From Grand Junction to the first charger in the Denver Metroplex is almost exactly 234 miles by road (according to Google). In one hit if you are feeling careful, or stopping at one of 3 CCS stations en-route. You say I am a liar. (Thanks for the ad-hominem, btw) I...

So you say, and you are flat wrong.

Just looked at Plugshare. It has even more chargers on the Grand Junction to Denver route than Chargehub has.

Yes it can. Plugshare is deficient in this instance, not the I-Pace.

Yes. What I find interesting about Jaguar is that they are now the 2nd most BEV-intensive brand in the world, and are likely to hold that position for a long time to come. In some markets. their BEV is now two-thirds of sales. Globally, I-Pace is likely to be about 1/6th to 1/7th of total...

It can cross the Rockies today, but not in Winter.

Personally, I like it and the Model S, and dislike the X and 3.

The problems with discussions about looks is: - chacun a son gout (each to their own taste) - de gustibus nil disputandum est (there's no arguing matters of taste)

I was particularly amused by one of the EV YouTube channels, which talked about how the new Porsche Taycan was going to have a Tesla-style frunk. Even though Porsche's have consistently had frunks since the 1940's.

Here is a Model S frontal air intake for comparison: https://wallpaperstock.net/wallpapers/thumbs1/13167.jpg

Yes, there are front air intakes for the cooling systems. For a long time, they were slits under the front bumper. Grills made a comeback for aesthetic reasons. The Model 3 has frontal air intakes for the cooling systems. The I-Pace has frontal air intakes for the cooling systems. Even the...

Right now, using just fast chargers, a Jag can drive from Coast to Coast in the USA, . In fact it can do any combination of Tijuana Mexico to Edmonton Alberta, Miami to Nova Scotia to Minneapolis, LA to Salt Lake City, San Diego to Pheonix, all by fast charger. Just like a Tesla, it can't...

Fuel stations, have been on a downward trend for decades, certainly in the UK. In 2000, there were almost 60% more fuel stations than there are now. I expect it won't take much softening of demand before that starts to fall.

I haven't found any so far - still, must be soon.

For Supercharger, it's stalls. i.e. counting 2 stalls per super charger. For CCS, it's chargers. 20kW CCS are therefore excluded from the figures. If it is below 50kW, by definition it is not a CCS DC Fast Charger (DCFC). CharIN, the standards body for CCS, defines Fast Charger as 50 to...

One-twelfth of UK new car buyers are already buying a hybrid or electric vehicle.

Not unless the car can drive across an ocean. I doubt European Tesla owners can drive all the way to the birthplace of their car using a supercharger network.

Grills became unnecessary in *all* cars in the mid-1980s. Grills came back in the mid 1990s - but not because they were functionally necessary. People like grills. The I-Pace's grill is actually functional - it feeds a front wing.

In the EU, CCS DC Fast Chargers (DCFCs) outnumber Superchargers about 2 to 1. In the USA, Superchargers outnumber CCS DCFCs by just over 2 to 1. The number of cars trying to use the Superchargers outnumbers the EVs trying to use the CCS chargers by about 6 to 1. In the USA, there are about 25...

@wws - I'd be really interested to read that long-running thread - where is it?

Nissan will launch a Leaf with a liquid-cooled battery pack in the USA within a month.

Isn't that digital signalling part of the CCS standard already? Ah, right - it allows up to 600V single-phase AC, and also high-voltage multi-phase AC. SAE Releases Charging Standard For Big Rigs / Trucks

Isn't this just CCS on Type-2 connector, then? i.e. what Europe has for CCS?

Going West to East, it's easily done by a Bolt - the 262 mile section is downhill.