BYD Seal

Only work from office 3 days a week and use wife's car if going anywhere as a family (people carrier so easier and bigger). Usually drive it down to 20-30% and then charge up to 100% over 3-4 consecutive nights. Only need to do this every few weeks. Keeps the costs very low (about Euro6 to get back full). Have OBD and shows no effect on battery to date - although car quite new at 4 months old only. Will continue to keep an eye on it longer term to see if notice anything.

Yeah would have thought that slow charging regime would be very easy on the battery alright.

As an example, I travel Blanch to Bray 5 days per week return trip. This is approx 38kms per trip which is 380 per week. Add on another 120appeox for evening and weekend running about so approx 500km per week. Each trip over the m50 uses approx 8% of battery. I could easily do the Mon - Fri work runs on a full charge however I typically charge 3-4 times per week times from 2-6am. This 4hr slot will pull approx 26kwh which is a little under 1/3rd of a charge (82kwh battery). I’m spending somewhere in the region of €7-8 per week where I was spending €50-60 on diesel. I think I’m in the sweet spot in terms of kms travelled & cheap night rate.,which really maximized the benefit of EV savings. (Forgetting totally about the €46k the car costs 😉)

nope. Or Netflix (error 1006 on boot). Or Disney (starts fine, you can see the selections but when you play anything, it’s audio only with blank screen). YouTube is perfect though.

You could easily have spent the same on a diesel, I mean the most popular car last year was the 40k ice Tucson afterall

Does YouTube run while driving?

Just peachy to know that I'm sharing the road with even more idiots distracted by YouTube sh1te that they'll swear they weren't watching, only listening.

I’ve never watched it while driving. The question was asked, and answered. Convenience for passenger. No need to be a dick.

Also, the price difference is only if you pick the white M3 with black interior and 18inch alloys. Start changing any of those, and the price difference closes very quickly.

Although very subjective, IMO the Seal (for me at least) is a much better car. I test drove both several times, and researched both fairly intensively (read reviews, watched you tube reviews), and finally bought the Seal.

In my time with the car (since Apr), the software and app has been updated several times. Although still not perfect, the vast majority of software concerns have been very well addressed, and that is on top of a fundamentally excellent car.

I suggest that you test drive both (a few times if you can) and then decide. The M3 is definitely a great car, but it’s the Seal for me. For you it might be different, and that’s OK 😀

I can echo the sentiments above. Test drove the M3 Ioniq 6 and Seal, went with the Seal. 12,000 km later I'm still very happy. I added the dash cam bought off AliExpress for less than 100. Was very easy in fairness and all the wiring is there waiting. Clean job.

Havent sideloaded anything. Use the native Spotify app a lot. Change to portrait mode for that 😁... Partially because I can but find it useful for having the list of upcoming songs if a random playlist is playing.

Im also a golfer (debatable) and find the boot a little disappointing. It's probably the biggest plus I'd give the M3. I fit everything in but it's tight. No way I'd get a second bag in there beside my caddy car and bag.

The space passengers have always gets comments. It's not a small car. Given the club's are in the boot shopping generally goes in the back along the floor. Loads of room there.

And imagine if every single person driving a car had some kind of portable computerised device that allows them to watch content, chat to people, video calls, check stuff online...

Imagine the absolute carnage on the roads.

its covered under existing driving whilst distracted legislation. And enforced as such

You're picking an obscure use case to make your point, poorly I might add.

Nobody mentioned holding or supporting a phone, I was referring to how easy it would be to use YouTube on a mobile device in a cradle, exactly the same result as above that you are complaining about.

I'd estimate that there are 100s of times more collisions and injuries due to mobile phone usage than there are YouTube usage in the above example.