Thanks for your insight. Yes, reassuring. This Kona will be a local runaround when we get the longer range Elroq next week, that should give us a lot more wiggle room and I believe it charges 10%-80% in around 25 Mins. We’ll get used to it all soon enough I’m sure, big change from our old petrol and diesel 2011 BMW and Mini. I ain’t gonna miss the ever increasing repair costs. Happy to have made the transition.
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Quick question for those who use Chargemap.
Do you just have the Chargemap Pass or the Chargemap Boost?
I got the basic Charge map, but never used it , yet…
Cheers, Mark. Is the 15€ just a one-off fee and not a monthly charge?
Yes, one off fee. I suppose I’d best try it out sometime (when I get back home)
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FFS Chris. That IS EV 101 and the wanker involved is making money because of your link.
Provided to someone who was asking EV101 type questions.
Your tone was quite unnecessary.
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Ditto @JohnH - YOU may know all about electric car charging but many of us don’t. As someone just starting to investigate such things I found the video useful.
No need for the vitriol.
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I abhor the increasing trend of “teaching your grandmother to suck eggs” videos on Youtube. You now google a quick question and you get some halfwit, often in dreadful english, doing a long preamble, a request to “like” the video and to subscribe to his “channel” before saying “press button “B” (for those who have ever been in a phone box).
Obviously Youtube pays people based on the amount of time users spend looking at contributors videos. So, this has generated petabytes of dross. These plonkers need to be purged.
I’ll tell you everything you need to know, without click generating padding 
Just email me your questions 
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Are you ok, John? You were always robust but you seem downright irascible at the moment.
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No they don’t John - you just need to stop watching the ones that irritate you.
There is a very simple mechanism for that - you click “don’t recommend channel” and then “confirm” and you will never see them again.
Most YouTube content creators don’t make enough money off YouTube payments to cover their time - they increasingly rely on things like Patreon or Buy me a Coffee to make ends meet.
I have found a huge amount of useful information on YouTube on many topics of interest to me, by people who are doing it mainly because they enjoy sharing their knowledge and interacting with a community, not to make a fast buck (very very few YouTubers get rich off it).
Yes like any other medium of communication (including this one) there is dross and piffle - but just take a chill pill and ignore the stuff you don’t like, it’s that simple.
No totalitarian purges required - which I am surprised to find you recommending, as a man who regularly rails against dictators and fascist behaviour . 
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Agreed.
And for me, some that are of no interest, but I need to learn - like getting my robot mower to work!!!
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OH swears by YouTube for loads of tasks around the house, it’s often the first place he looks
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On the subject of YouTube, while we are in drift mode, @ykm71 on another thread recommended NewPipe app as a way to view YouTube clips.
Not only does it remove adverts, I am sure the picture quality is better. You can search clips in portrait mode then move phone to landscape to watch full screen. Swipe up/down left/right to change brightness/volume.
And,of course, you can save interesting clips
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Fair comment John, and I appreciate your concern I probably am getting more intolerant, from a reasonably high starting point.
But in this case that is down to outrage at the enshittification of Youtube, which I guess many people don’t even notice.
I’ve been using it as useful resource for a long, long time. IMO it is only relatively recently, that the number of idiots posting has exploded (influencers who have always been idiots IMO excluded).
Before if you wanted to know how to use a, say power tool, an expert or several experts would have very informative videos on how to do so.
They’d have a little plug for their company or whatever in the video. If you liked their stuff you subscribed to their channel. If you really liked it you might even pay them a small amount or a inexpensive subscription through Patreon (as I still do for some).
But the greedy bastards at Alphabet weren’t happy. So the T&Cs changed. Without having wasted too much time researching, it seems to me that Alphabet (Google) pay now on clicks and stickiness (the longer you watch the more ads they can be bombarded you with). Hence the preamble, the bullshit and at last the “reveal”… “press button B”
So quality of the videos has tanked as every halfwit tries to cash in.
Does Alphabet care, quality is nothing, clicks are everything.
What amuses me in all this, I might start a thread, is the building anger at the avaricious, amoral crowd that run X, Meta, Google etc.
First of all they are not tech companies, they are advertising companies.
An nauseam investigations, fines, court cases etc. are not the way to control them, They are fleet of foot and politicians tend to be stupid. Too late, too little, too ineffective.
Advertising licences totally at the discretion the Government are a potential solution. That’s a strategy that should be adopted Worldwide.
If Facebook was banned from advertising in the EU for a month Zuckerberg would piss himself 
We shouldn’t be fining these people, we should put them out of business if they don’t comply with our laws.
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I can’t argue with any of that though, fortunately, I rarely use YouTube as I much prefer the written word though even that is becoming more difficult to find as Google insists on pushing search results towards YouTube video.
When I do use YouTube then I tend to be very specific in my search terms and I’m ruthless with the fast forward button.
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Same, it drives me crazy, I don’t want to watch a 9/20/30 minute video when I could read an explanation in a few minutes.
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Surely not just?
The new game is monetising our data and behaviour patterns as well. Which is quite sinister given the uses to which that knowledge can be put.
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Maybe try duckduckgo.com ? YouTube results do appear, but it seems to operate more like search engines used to when they weren’t trying to sell a product
That’s why I boycott Google and YouTube, and use DuckDuckGo and Newpipe !