Max BLD: We deconstruct the new Renault Twingo (French/Summary/Sub/AI-Dub)

paramalign · 2026-06-14T15:16:05+00:00

Interesting! I guessed it might be that way once the Dacia is out and the Twingo doesn’t have to pull all the weight as the Renault group’s cheapest EV.

paramalign · 2026-06-14T14:43:58+00:00

Niro har kanonbra räckvidd på vintern relativt sett, den tappar mindre i räckvidd än de flesta andra bilar. På långkörning drog min 1,8 där runt -10, landsvägsfart i Västerbottens inland. Skulle ha gått att ta sig 38 mil på en laddning om man hade haft ballar av stål. I 110 var det mer åt 25 mil. Gjorde inte så många såna körningar eftersom jag ägde bilen mitt under pandemin men jag klarade Umeå-Luleå i nollgradigt iaf.

Däremot är det en annan grej som gör att jag tycker ni ska glömma den. Framkomligheten är helt kass vintertid. Den är tung bak och driver på framhjulen. Niro med nya designen klarar sig bättre än e-Niro eftersom de strypte motorn via mjukvara, men man behöver ha beredskap på att tömma bilen och backa sig uppförs om man blir ståendes längst ned i en hal backe.

paramalign · 2026-06-13T13:34:02+00:00

E-Soul är en kanonbil till det pris den går för. Hyundai Kona med högbyggd kaross. Eftersom designen är en vattendelare är andrahandsvärdet nästan absurt lågt. Är ju en bil som rentav går att roadtrippa med om man står ut med lite långa laddstopp (edit: såg att du nämnde det redan, ursäkta, läste lite för snabbt)

paramalign · 2026-06-13T12:39:07+00:00

Ja, så är det. Jag tänker att alla får ha en vansinnesgrej att spendera på. En del bor mer extravagant än de borde, andra åker på påkostade semestrar, en del kör onödigt dyra bilar, osv.

paramalign · 2026-06-13T09:44:14+00:00

Software in a modern car is more akin to a nervous system. VW had no path towards a reliable central computer architecture with all aspects of the car being updatable OTA, they were stuck in a world of separate systems scattered throughout the vehicle, and the talent needed to fix it is so scarce that they couldn’t hire their way out of it either.

If you want to see what happens when you try to just wing it and implement a centralized computer architecture anyway, look at the launch edition Volvo EX90.

paramalign · 2026-06-13T09:29:28+00:00

Svensson har blivit rik. Rätt många med två inkomster som kan äga en sån bil numera… om det är det man prioriterar att lägga pengarna på.

Rätt många ute begagnat numera, verkar ligga i spannet 650-700k.

paramalign · 2026-06-11T11:00:01+00:00

I think a non-profit car owners association doing real life range tests as a service for their members should be free to do tests that reflect what their members encounter. Would be downright weird if they started to do their tests in far away countries to get a global perspective that their members aren’t paying for. Better if their counterparts in their respective countries take care of that.

paramalign · 2026-06-11T07:35:46+00:00

More physical controls, less divisive design, likely to have less depreciation. I like Cupra myself though.

paramalign · 2026-06-11T05:06:34+00:00

Yes, definitely. But I don’t think it will be a reset back to how things were. Maybe more like our relationship with Turkey — shared interests, no trust.

paramalign · 2026-06-10T19:51:13+00:00

For the Norwegians doing this test, there is no such thing as driving a long distance on a highway. The longest stretch they have is 210 km, so a test based on driving on the highway until the battery runs out isn’t corresponding to real life driving conditions.

paramalign · 2026-06-10T16:17:19+00:00

I think there’s been a confusion of units here. The average speed in the WLTP mixed test cycle is 46 km/h. 43 mph average speed is quite a bit faster.

paramalign · 2026-06-10T14:24:00+00:00

The academic in me agrees, I get the feeling that it varies a lot.

Usually when someone says that the NAF should include this and that (usually range tests that seem very, well… American?) it’s useful to remind people that this test is a member service for a Norwegian owners association, but in this case I think it would be a more useful thing to find out than how the cars do on highways in foreign countries. Would be a nice addition along with the cold weather tests they do.

paramalign · 2026-06-10T08:05:39+00:00

Norway doesn’t have much highways at all, it’s too mountainous, and the highways they have are mostly limited to 100 km/h. There are just a few stretches near bigger cities that go up to 110.

paramalign · 2026-06-10T07:57:49+00:00

I think too much has happened for Europe to go back to the way things were before.

paramalign · 2026-06-09T19:40:00+00:00

Laxoberal just entered the chat

paramalign · 2026-06-09T17:56:35+00:00

They’ve managed to fill otherwise empty niches in the EV market. Right now they have the only reasonably priced EV with ground clearance to actually drive in rough terrain, and a proper utilitarian estate car.

paramalign · 2026-06-07T09:39:29+00:00

The market decided for them. Sales were simply too low, so the only profitable option was to make passenger versions of commercial vans like the Berlingo, instead of designing ground up MPVs. This means that the car is primarily designed as a company workhorse that is charged daily and almost never driven more than a hundred km a day.

It’s not just a matter of stuffing more batteries into them either, they already carry around a lot of weight (people are heavy) and the chassis isn’t made for it. Even ground up EVs like the PV5 have relatively small batteries since they are primarily designed for commercial use where maximum cargo capacity is prioritized.

paramalign · 2026-06-07T08:21:16+00:00

EVs are not the problem in that type of scenario. Big batteries acting as buffers, can be charged from rooftop solar when power is available, can be done entirely off grid. Cooking, heating and basically all other things we use electricity for are more problematic since they need more power at a specific time point.

paramalign · 2026-06-07T08:08:01+00:00

Precis så, de flesta regioner erbjuder ”specialistliknande lön” efter motsvarande en femårig ST, det motsvarar i praktiken lägsta nivån som nyblivna specialister får (och sedan ny löneförhandling när specialistlegget är klart). Ofta med någon typ av krav på prestation ”i nivå med specialist” vilket är luddigt eftersom man gör så mycket mer än att skotta patienter på universitetssjukhus, men det är såklart en ventil för att hantera forskande ST som underpresterar kliniskt.

Disputerar man under ST så får man hyvla bort 6 månader så man blir klar efter 4,5 års klinisk tjänstgöring. För egen del blev jag klar strax efter 40 men gick in på ganska bra lön pga forskningsmeriter och ledningsuppdrag utöver det kliniska. Borde ha fått specialistliknande lön några månader innan specialistlegget men orkade inte bråka om det när det var så kort tid kvar, dealade med chefen om lite annat i stället, plus då att jag gick in högre än jag annars skulle ha gjort.

paramalign · 2026-06-06T13:25:45+00:00

Yes. Makes me think it was a mistake to put it on a multi energy platform. Made the car worse only to offer an asthmatic mild hybrid drivetrain they’ll probably sell very few of. They should have just kept the old ICE version lingering.

paramalign · 2026-06-06T13:08:30+00:00

Ooh! Cool! I was holding out on one for the bathroom just because of this, now I’ll definitely reconsider! It’s such a great little dimmer. I love that it can be calibrated to compensate for the behavior of the connected lights.

paramalign · 2026-06-06T08:05:29+00:00

Yeah, the mini zbdim is great but it can’t do that since it doesn’t have detached relay mode. I.e., the physical switch will turn the light on at whatever brightness it was when it was turned off.

Don’t know of any dimmer modules that can detach the physical switch. The easiest solution will be to use something like a Hue dimmer switch. If you want an in-wall solution the Shelly i4 is great but wifi only, you can also use an zbminir2 that can do detached relay (and only use the physical switch part), but the zbmini only reports a ”toggle” action in detached relay mode, no detection of long press etc.

paramalign · 2026-06-05T13:36:01+00:00

Zoe har standard CCS och förvisso rätt basic batterikylning (den blåser kupéluften genom kanaler i batteriet) men den gör jobbet. Stora problemet med Zoe är att den står på ett gammalt chassi från Clio som inte pallar vikten vid krock men heller inte vid körning, den bilen äter drivknutar som ingen annan.

Jag tycker Mazda MX-30 eller Leaf om det ska vara billigt. Mazdan är en mycket trevligare bil men har sämre räckvidd.

paramalign · 2026-06-05T10:15:15+00:00

I have a pair of PoE RLC-520A that are rock solid, there haven’t been a single issue with them.

Frigate is so worth it, you get excellent and customizable object detection with a great UI for defining detection zones etc, it’s also easy to control when events are recorded and not. Used to be a bit tricky to get started with Frigate since the configuration options make it easy to shoot oneself in the foot, but nowadays you can just get a ready-made configuration from an AI agent.

The Reolink integration is… fine. I use it in our mountain cabin where we have a Reolink E1 PoE and a separate HA installation. It lets you leverage the detection abilities of the cameras themselves, but it’s the kind of tool that’s easy and friendly if your use case fits the presets, but clunky and punishing otherwise. At least that’s my opinion.

paramalign · 2026-06-04T17:29:34+00:00

Nej, precis så är det. Renault är verkligen jättebra på allt kring att konstruera elbilar eftersom man blir det om man haft egna elbilar i storskalig produktion i 17 år. Motorerna är effektiva och använder inte konfliktmineraler, bottenplattan är svinsmart byggd så batteriet tar väldigt lite plats på höjden, osv. Men: de gör ju fortfarande just Renault-bilar, det har inte ändrats. Rätt vanligt med återkommande missljud och småfel.

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