Random EV thoughts.....

I always have the foot on the brake (out of habit) when at a complete stop in traffic, so that if I get a love tap from the car behind I (hopefully) wont be shunted into the car in front.

I appreciate that the car will hold itself when at rest, but I am unsure if it would hold if my foot wasnt on the brake in such a situation so apply the brake as a precautionary measure. It might also be a complete waste of time.

A quick click of the paddles allows adjusting the regen while driving without having to go to the menu which is great. Hold in the right paddle to swap between auto regen and normal regen. As mention click and hold in the left paddle, this uses a regen level higher than level 3.

Auto regen is great and is a bit of a safety feature. Not sure if it's meant to be.

Yeah I never got the attraction of having paddles to set the regen, do people really change it that often?

Having said that some configuration would be nice, the ID cars basically just have D mode for minimal regen and B mode for max regen. Really wish they had a proper one pedal mode, two pedal driving is far too much work for me 😁

Every day. Zero for motorway. Level one or two for local driving, squeeze the paddle every now and then for braking.

Hmm, okay fair point. I still feel like the paddle shift would be for something you'd be using every few seconds

While I like the simplicity of D and B modes, I do feel it silly that the ID cars lack a one pedal mode that Kia/Hyundai have.

I still feel like Nissan have it best with just a switch to turn one pedal on and off, no need to hold anything down

We love the 1 pedal driving of the Model 3.

set it on Hold (Full regen) the 1st day and have never changed it since…..

52,000km on the car and the brake pads are only just worn in.

Not perfect, but a good idea

Maybe they should have just put in a random number generator 😂

I had 4 different levels of regen braking in my last EV (zero / coasting, mild, medium and strong). It was a bit gimmicky, I usually just used medium. And on longer motorway journeys switched to mild or even off as @stesaurus rightly points out, you actually lose range if regen is too strong. The battery in that car was very small and I sometimes needed the range

In Teslas you have either standard or low regen braking. Standard is fairly strong and has one pedal driving in Model 3 and Model Y. I leave it to standard and I don't like when you don't get any regen braking when the battery is full or very cold. Also one of the reasons I now dislike driving ICE cars. Some people who are no big fans of regen, just switch it to low.

Ah ok, every day a school day. It's a good few months since I last drove a Model 3 (Freemont made Performance) and I didn't spot that in my test drive of the (China made) Model Y last week (I like one pedal driving, so never thought to have a look in the menu). All Model S and Model X have two levels afaik. I wish they had one pedal driving too.

Yeah, that sucks if you don't like strong regen. But I bet you will get used to it though?

Are you saying you get cramp in your right foot from keeping it on the accelerator? How long would you have been driving before suffering from cramp?

Same here. This is part of my minor gripe with my new M3. As I said above, always on regen, coupled with a stiffish accelerator pedal (strong spring, if you know what I mean - can empathise with @eagerv’s cramp)

Then along with this, there’s nowhere to put my right foot when using cruise control. My ice has a ‘shelf’ to place my foot beside the accelerator (at the same angle) when using cruise control, but in the Tesla I can only place it flat on the floor which is far less comfortable on a motorway trip.

Now don’t get me wrong, I do love the M3, but I would prefer a footrest and regen level options.

I got a good renewal price from chill.ie (agent) and they are nice to deal with also. But as usual check a few usual suspects before making a decision.

123 for both cars now..

Had the Tesla for the 1st 2 years with XS Direct (started a fresh new policy with 0 NCB) but they are shutting down so 123 was the best price @ €885

Very easy to deal with regarding document uploads and online portal etc...