How far does an EV really go? On a cold horrible day in winter - several current EVs tested

And that's fine so long as they aren't holding up or blocking other vehicles - however this happens regularly.

I often find myself behind a queue of cars with the top one doing 100 or less with nothing ahead or to the left of them.

Yep, or the ones who will come flying up the outside lane and then slow down to sit on your back bumper for whatever reason (maybe it's because my A7 is rare-ish and looks cool when washed 😂) meaning that when you then need to overtake something in front of you, you have this other idiot to contend with as you move out.

The majority of them will be in ICE cars.

Lane hogging is nothing to do with EVs.

You also get considerable fuel saving on ICE driving slower with negligible difference in journey time.

While I like travelling at near or on the speed limit, in ICE or EV not everyone does. People are allowed to travel at different speeds once they obey the rules.

As said earlier if you want the least stops on long journeys buy a diesel with a large tank. It's better than petrol and EVs for that.

Same.. the giveaway is the drift to the line while they think about it.

That's good info.

I suppose though the other problem I have with EVs is I just don't like the look of most of them (they always remind me of the "2015" cars in Back to the Future 2 - but without the flight mode!). The little fella loves Teslas but I'm not a fan (sorry! 🙂)

The Audi e-tron GT is probably the closest to my current A7 but that's crazy money!

That's just cosmetic/personal preference though!

The "no reason" is usually somebody in the overtaking lane right up to their exit and then trying to cut across a lane of traffic to get to said exit. Cue brakes, slowing down to the speed necessary to get to the exit without going past it and the inevitable concertina effect on the rest of us. Particularly bad on the M50. I once saw somebody in an Audi A4 take this to the limit and hit the off ramp (hit being the operative word) so hard they blew out both near side tyres.

But we're not the only country with bad motorway habits. France and Spain are notorious for poor overtaking habits. They almost always drive right up to the vehicle that they need to pass to maintain their speed, slow down to that vehicle's speed (usually a truck doing 80), indicate and pull out to overtake and then slowly accelerate to motorway speed again. Cue concertina effect which on some occasions that I've experienced lead to an entirely stationary motorway.

Time to buy a hummer

No, its the 2022 RW standard range M3. As I said I did it once last summer without charging during the complete return journey and it arrived with less than 5%! I wouldn't make a habit of it. Door to door return for that trip is just over 400km so not too surprising for M3 rwd. I take a slightly longer route usually on the return leg so I can top up at Enfield. I don't even have to think about it anymore regardless of the temperature/weather on any given trip.

Probably came across that way. It's just funny seeing a comment that has taken an individual decision to drive a certain way and decides to paint them all with the same brush. If you don't want an EV. Don't get one. If you really want to do the 120km/hr you get the slightly larger battery of the same car the OP was talking about, voila, solutions abound.

A few cent? I do (edit: worked it out, 15kwh/100km @0.077e/Kwh) for every euro I spend on fuel. The difference between the ICE octavia and the Born I bought was 7.5k. I will have saved at least 2k on fuel in my first year driving. I was a skeptic before I bought one as well tbf, and I realise now quite how out of touch I was on the subject

What about this:

As wltp "combined" is useless for ev how about they issue 3 specific speeds but show together like below examples

First number is kph and second distance kms

(note pure example with figures plucked from my A$$)

Model Y RWD = 50.455/80.400/120.320

Model 3 RWD = 50.513/80.450/120.400

130kmph range test should be mandatory- a 120kmph test in a lab environment assumes zero headwind which is never the case. A 20kmph wind is almost the same as adding 20kmph to your driving speed