The i3 modular battery sounds great on paper but it’s complex and VERY expensive. The i3 was very much a concept car that was brought to life, going forward things will be much simpler.
1 Like
For $10 US, you can have it all…. Munro live 24000 page full teardown report, including the battery.
https://munrolive.com/store/ols/products/bmw-i3-reports
Groetnis
1 Like
In Italy you don’t see many BMW EVs.
The most popular EVs (driven by taxi drivers) are Prius and the Leaf.
The Leaf being 25% more expensive I was told by our Prius taxi driver (28k Euros vs 34k Euros)
Convert the Volksie, your know you want to. 
Tyres up in smoke, brake pads too 
Gonna cost a bunch on just that!
Groetnis
New since 2012… Was this announced locally?
Groetnis
1 Like
Daar ia nogals n klompie kombies en beetles wat klaar al gedoen is in SA. Weet van n paar. My beetle is already converted with disc brakes and running bigger wheels. It’s between 1835cc forge turbo motor that I’m busy building now or a ev setup. Friend of mine working in the UK can get me the controller kit.
That’s old already. It’s actually a 2-seater, though it is a tight squeeze.
The slightly larger one is called the Zoe. It is essentially an electric version of the Kwid (not exactly, but that is the closest local reference).
Of course none of them made it to SA.
Jun 2021 … ag cute:
1 Like
I’m seeing these in Italy at the moment.
There are quite a few hybrids but I’m only looking out for EVs. (and there’s plenty of ICE bangers!)
I’m not looking in nooks and crannies. I just check out the traffic on the roads and see what’s new.
Oh wait, there is a solution… I wonder if the blackouts are a planned part of the decommissioning???
By
Published
6 hours ago
Eskom, South Africa’s national power utility company, plans to decommission 5,400 MW of electricity from coal generation by year 2022, 10,500 MW by 2030, and 35,000 MW by 2050 (IRP, 2019). South Africa’s contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is ranked as high, and its per capita emission rate is higher than the global average. Energy demand within the country is expected to rise steadily and double by 2025, and this will have a significant impact on climate change. However, the country is currently facing an acute shortfall in terms of electricity generation capacity and hence Eskom has been forced to implement electricity rationing schedules. South Africa needs to add new generation capacity ASAP.
To help plug the electricity generation gap, Eskom is making land available close to its power stations, where there is sufficient grid capacity, for Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to lease and invest in renewable energy projects that can be implemented very quickly.
What are these morons thinking?? Real bad reporting …
Groetnis
Are you referring to this …
Again, the first I heard of it the above was from … De Ruyter.
The stompies I picked up … as in Eskom shareholders in one Dept are legislating their company, in another department, into oblivion due to emission controls and standards, local and international. It makes sense, laws must be upheld as people are dying due to the dirty coal emissions, but when does the ANC do things because it is sensible? Eskom wants to go to the Conti court to get around the law, as it makes NO sense to decommission anything until their is something in place.
And if Eskom does not reduce its emissions as per international standards, and it had years and years to do that, plan, huge costs to do that on like Medupi, the shareholders ignored it for decades, then SA exports are going to be taxed heavily going forward.
There is, or rather was, an appetite for investing in SA green energy to the tune of billions from the international arena at very very favorable interest rates, but that was before Ukraine, and Europe themselves having to go back to coal/nuclear in haste, the coal exports from SA currently, if Transnet strikers can stop their “vloermoer”. And then the elephant, corruption.
So reading that article, it is going to make a lot of people foam at the mouth, yet it feels like big games are being played here by Eskom’s shareholders, over decades.
2 Likes
I, for one, welcome our new green overlords!
One thing I enjoy, and perhaps shouldn’t, is debating anti-EV people on social media.Here you always see the same arguments over and over, but one that comes by very frequently is the one of government coercion: This cannot be a good thing if we are forced, they say!
Well, let me use an example. My kids don’t want to eat their vegetables. Sometimes I have to lightly coerce them to do so. Oh alright… eat one carrot, five peas and I’ll lightly brush a floret of broccoli across your face! The coercion doesn’t imply it is a bad thing.
Make no mistake, it could still be a bad thing… this just isn’t a good reason. You’re going to need more ammunition buddy.
Also, there is that other little glaring thing that this deadline is 13 years away. Which puts it so far in the distant future that I find a lot of the whinging and kid-like “But it is disgusting! You can’t force us!” to be a bit premature. Also, as I understand it, they built a little escape clause into it. There’s going to be a report every 2 years, and a review in 2028. Then they will adjust the target.
Finally, there is also the niggling issue that the automakers announced plans to go electric even before governments got on the bandwagon. Apparently Opel has already said it’s aiming for 2028.
(Seriously, I’d buy an Opel Adam EV. That is one seriously cute looking small car. Sadly discontinued because apparently most people don’t agree with me )
There are some elephants in the room. One is the Green energy kerfuffle, the other one is the same just positioned as climate change. There is another elephant called science. Today, that word does not mean what it used to mean. Nor does the 97% of scientists agree from ol Al Gore got anything to do with reality since science is not a democracy. They were quick to fire scientists that disagree, and that apart from the fact that he grabbed that number out of thin air.
If there is no crises, manufacture one out of nothing and do the money making behind the scenes. See where the green energy got the World… Stop fossil fuels and see people die of cold and hunger, it’s just an alternate reality. Maybe as WEF and UN want with Agenda 2030 or whatever that is called, there will be a drastic population reduction after all…
And yet we are not done.
Groetnis, maar ek is sad. 
2 Likes
This is BRILLIANT!! I would have one
1 Like
Let me start by saying… ag forgetaboutit already… Good lord, that thing is a brick, I bet the worst Cd of any EV. At least it is light. Ok maybe under R500K in SA, but that thing will likely never make it here.
Predict that thing to sell like uhmmm, no will just leave that here. Not going to sell. It sounds really bad in there when se is talking, my word. Wonder how that will fare in crash testing. Ag forgetaboutit again, dumpster fire.
Groetnis
1 Like
I’ll have one too…
Well… maybe not the minute it hits the market. It is a French car… and the only thing I traditionally avoid harder than a German car is a French car.
The aerodynamic coefficient is a tradeoff. The car is meant for use in the city, limited to 100km/h, and what it loses with the flat front window it gains in savings on air conditioning.
The whole thing weighs only a metric ton!
Maybe this is not the car South Africans will buy, but it at least shows what can be done.