Hey, there is another one for sale at the same dealer! Anyone want to take the plunge with me?
It even has two additional cup holders. Those cup holders are like a thousand rand a piece… second hand 
This looks like more of a base model. Upholstered seats. No adaptive cruise control or any of the fancy stuff. But I really do like the charcoal colour (I like white slightly more) with the blue door sills.
How neg do you think they are?
R400k is a bit much for a 2015, at R350k they would have my interest
I managed to get 10k off ours with almost zero effort. Just that would make it the second cheapest one I’ve seen so far (the cheapest one was in Centurion and went for 350k, but it had slightly less mileage on it too). I’d just give them a call. Guy’s name is Warren. Very nice guy to deal with. Quite busy though, you may have to make an appointment for a test drive.
Before you go, make a study of how to check the battery capacity. This figure is not perfectly accurate, it can vary by quite a bit depending on temperature, but if you get anything above 15 (out of the original 18.8), it’s about on par with other 2015 models I’ve seen. Ours show a mere 14.3, which I still think is a low estimate.
On this topic. One reason I know the car underestimates the range, is because it also overestimates recharge times. It typically finishes charging 30 minutes to an hour earlier than estimated.
Our car has the “BMW Connected” option still active, which means it has a sim card and somehow it remains online (for now, until 3G stops working). When you plug the car in, you get a message saying that it started charging, and when it will be finished. It always finishes early.
The other upside of the app, when it still works, is you get a tracking device for free. When the car is parked, it updates it’s location, and on the app you can see where it is parked. I can literally spy on the wife…
Edit: This is what the app looks like. Blurred out the location, for obvious reasons.
Slightly off topic, but I often “spy” on the wife when she isn’t answering her phone by checking my “find my” app since we are both loaded on that. Unless she misplaced her cellphone, I can have the food ready just as she gets home. Obviously she can check my location as well, but that it rarely required, because I am just so much better at answering when she phones. A little while ago, we got get a smart watch. Phone-answering probability went up a little bit, but still not in what I consider to be the “reliable” range.
Same here. I have essentially a 99.995% reliability rate in answering when the wife calls. The wife, on the other hand, has similar odds of calling back within 5 minutes, but answering is about 50/50. Well, used to be. Giving her a fitness watch did bring that up significantly.
Edit: I need to add more to this… because it is funny. I got sent to the store. As women do. Not sure why, after years of sub-par results, they continue doing this. On the list, there were not one, but TWO items that caused problems. The first was “caramel flavoured condensed milk”. The second was “500g butter”.
The condensed milk turned out to be not condensed milk at all. It is also called “caramel treat” and it comes in a can that looks like a condensed milk can. The butter… well, do you want salted, or unsalted woman!? These things are important!
(I went with unsalted, because I figured it was for baking. I got lucky, that was a good guess).
Did she answer her phone when I called from the store? I’ll let you imagine what the answer to that may be
You luck lot you. Almost never answers, consistently It is on silent permanently…
KoueskouerWaremtongGroetnis
They claim a lack of pockets. Probably why the watch helps.
When my son goes shopping for his mother, a lot of WA’s ensues. Salted or not, this or that …
I get tired.
When I’m given a list to go shopping … there are no comms needed. If the instructions are not clear … bleh, so what. Then I get what I like.
Men learn the hard way “they” say … “they” don’t add, “as do women”.
Yeah, I’m very strict. If it wasn’t on the list, I’m not buying it. Then the response is that I should use my intuition. But I think what is really meant is that I should use her intuition, because mine will bring back meat and immediately light the fire when I get home.
Just for being pedantic. 
Your wife knows stuff …
Unfortunately, that isn’t clear on the can (wow, this is now properly derailed…).
I’m currently in China for a week and it’s amazing and crazy at the same time how many electric vehicles are in the road here from so many different brands. Compared to the last time I came in 2015 when it was just a handful of buses.
Byd is probably the most common ones that I see, I deluding those being used for taxi. 4/5 taxis I’ve been in, have been electric. Buses, panel vans, tuktuks, scooters, bicycles… mostly electric.
Bicycles and scooters are just left on the side of the road on the pavements, no chains holding them down. Apparently one can take a bicycle, pay a rental, ride it to another place and leave it there.
I saw this in Europe earlier tis year with the rental EV scooters…
Something that no one has mentioned yet on here is the release of the BYD Atto3 in SA.
Sounds to me like customers might be able to take delivery as soon as the end of this month!
It also has 2.2kW V2L capability, now that could open a lot of doors…
I might end up installing a total of 3 cables to my garage 
I could theoretically charge my car at work, drive it home and use it to slowly recharge my existing solar system, it would be like having a 50kWh generator on standby, I could drop my grid usage to practically zero.
BYD Atto 3 (50.1 kWh) – R768 000
BYD Atto 3 (60.4 kWh) – R835 000
The BYD Atto 3 is sold with a 5-year / 100 000km warranty and 5-year / 100 000 km service plan.
SjeezGroetnis
Would the V2L be legal in SA? Technically it is connected to the grid?
Also, would you need to disconnect from the mains for it to work? How would it know how to play well with another inverter on the same grid?
Considering that in size its similar to something like a Rav4 they are packing real value.
The mild hybrid top spec Rav4 is R833k.
The Atto3 might just make the PHEV Rav4 DOA for someone like me.
But with that said, I love the specs and looks of the BYD, but that interior looks way too “interesting” for my taste.
I think it would be treated the same as any generator.
Its times like these where I wish I had bought a Victron Quattro instead, but I can just flip a changeover on the AC input side of my Multi dropping the grid and applying a conservative AC input limit with power assist on.
The Volvo EX30 seems like a much nicer car for the same money.
