Renault Megane e-tech fully battery powered French car for everyone? 

It’s a tough experience but I’ve learned a lot about the channel and the people who subscribe! I’ll be fixing things in the background for a long time to come

What happened?

I’ve put the belt and braces on the channel now!

Thanks Alan!

What happenend?

@@simond3975 Bob had his account hacked. You might have seen some scammy Tesla live stream in your subscriptions lately. He explained about it on his TikTok

@@danielbrierton i did wonder what that was about, I just ignored it, but maybe I should've reported for spam? Glad to see it all worked out, hope nothing was lost

Are the rear seats a deal breaker? , what is the price / delivery waiting times like.

@@columcreaven8860 Wouldn't be a deal breaker for me. 2 kids in Isofox / booster seats fitted fine. Bob mentions in the video that you'll fit 3 adults in the back. Pricing starts at about 39k for base model, 47k for mid range Techno trim. Not sure how much the top launch edition is. Don't know delivery times.

It's actually surprising the Leaf is still limping along. It is outclassed by a number of more up to date EV's, with higher levels of tech. I understand good discounts are available on new Leafs.

The BMW only has 14 miles of electric range though, less on a cold day or for an older car.

You mean the badge!

Keep the Golf it’s going to be a collectors item in a couple of years!

I see countless comments by people saying they can't go electric because they can't charge at home. Do you refuel at home with an ICE, i thought not. Charging can easily be incorporated into daily life, most ev's can be fully charged during the weekly shop for example

Just don't buy a Tesla. Almost all other EV's can have their battery pack refurbished for a fraction of the cost of completely replacing it....... Tesla make it extremely difficult to refurb their battery pack. Any decent dealer selling used EV's should be able to carry out a SOH (state of health) check on the battery, and give you the reading of - in percentage terms - the state of the battery. Normal battery degradation runs at 2 to 3% per year....

They are all constrained by battery supply at the moment and can sell as many as they can make. Until that changes prices will remain high.

A good used EV will cost less than a new one. You don't *have* to buy new...

It looks costly next to an MG4 at £27k.....

I don’t like the heat bit

European car manufacturers are very worried right now

Some folk play golf, or have dogs etc.......

some people need a big boot... I have a wheelchair that needs to fit in it.

Rubbish. Radiation comes from plutonium not from electricity. Obviously you have no idea how electricity works. Electricity can emit electric magnetic fields but not radiation. Batteries do not emit radiation either.

It’s a story put out to scare you. If batteries really put out radiation we’d all be dead from our phones.

@@BobFlavinVideo Well said Bob

There is now a new and improved ID3. They finally did something about those awful sliding controls....

I hope I’m not, that truck looks stupid 😂

​@@BobFlavinVideo Looks a bit like building with Lego, all flat surfaces. I know that's because of the difficulty of working with the stainless steel itself but they should have taken that into consideration when designing it. I had a silver BYD SUV traveling behind me for approximately 20 kilometres in west Cork on Monday, it was a right hand drive with a big sticker on one side of the screen, presuming they were testing it on our lovely bumpy roads, have to say it seemed pretty smooth at absorbing the bumps nicely. Will you be getting a chance to test one any time soon.

Plus the fact that as Bob mentioned, there is next to no hydrogen infrastructure. And I can't imagine town and city planners, along with the Health & Safety police, allowing the placement of large tanks full of hydrogen - stored at 10'000 psi - anywhere near housing or workplaces. It's just not going to happen. I never could see the point in using massive amounts of electricity to produce hydrogen, to then use a fuel cell in a car to convert it BACK into electricity at a *loss* Plus once you've got your hydrogen, it still needs to be transported everywhere before it can be used or sold. Given that a hydrogen powered car uses an electric motor to drive the wheels, why not skip the inefficient hydrogen production process and the transportation, and just charge the battery in an electric car in the first place?

But Alun, we're basically just 10 or so years into mass market EV's at the moment. Where do you suppose the ICE motor car was after just 10 years on the road? In comparison to ICE car development, you could say EV's are steaming ahead. Yes it needs to get better. And it will.... But as with many things, you have to start somewhere.....

The self charging thing is marketing bull. They are hybrids and offer little benefit over a petrol engine and none over diesel. Plugin hybrids look like a good interim technology to me but they seem as expensive as full EV's so perhaps not.

Self charging hybrids rely totally on fossil fuel, which has no long term future as road fuel. Shell's latest business report here in the UK, stated that they plan to cut the refining and production of petrol and diesel by 40% on the run up to 2030. You still want that self charging hybrid, which can't actually charge the battery *unless* it's burning petrol?

@@Brian-om2hh you should read up on E fuels. Hate to ruin your day but electric cars have no long term possibility, plugging a car in to charge and wait half an hour (if you are lucky) has no legs

@@Brian-om2hh i will also add where you think electric comes from in first place

@@tonyedgecombe6631 pretty sure its EVs that are marketing crap. Notice how they always show somebody plugging one in. Like its the norm 😄

It's not a little car. A Zoe is a little car or a Citroen C1. The Megane is a mid sized family car. This Megane is probably as big or bigger than a MK 1 Laguna from the 90s and that was a big car in its time.

@@sharonec5419 It's similar in size to the MG4 which is considerably cheaper

@@ThePetrolhead94 Yes that is cheaper for a reason. Its not as good inside its not well built it has oil leaks and bits falling off it and other problems but you go buy your inferior MG4 then.

@@sharonec5419 I am on my 2nd EV and I also work in the industry so I know what I am talking about Megane is a fantastic car but I think it's overpriced

@@ThePetrolhead94 Awe very good. It's the way it's gone do. No one ever thought they would be paying 50 or 60k for a Kia and yet that's now what the EV6 costs. The MG4 is a great car for the price alright but MG need to sort a lot of things out like there build and there waiting times for delivery's out. Lots still waiting for a ZS that they ordered a year or even 18months to 2 years ago. That is just disgracefull. We live in a crazy world.

The same with others EVs

So you don't have it in your house then?