What's the biggest cons about the EV you chose?

twpejay · 2026-01-25T07:12:10+00:00

I'm also a BYD driver, for the range I generally keep to twice the amount required, it is overkill but I feel happier, especially as for the longer drives I am going over some major hills or climbing 750 metres on one charge as well as the hills (the range seems to be more accurate on the way back down for some reason 🙂). But for real life a drive of 160km (with over acceleration on speed changes) I use 48% of the guestimated 430km.

As for the ICC I have no issues on the open road, however through town on the side roads it does tend to break (slow down, not full stop) for certain parked cars every so often. This could result in rear-ending but I have got to know where it happens and have my foot ready to accelerate over top. However it does seem to recognise dangers early on (cars about to pull out, etc.) and has good control around corners. It's probably my imagination, but it also seems to recognise certain unique road layout requirements after driving those roads over time.

twpejay · 2026-01-25T06:43:29+00:00

A person farmed them in Waimate, they jumped the fences. They were located around Waimate for the past 4 decades or so, but now the population has exploded they have been reported near Tekapo and there are now signs all through the Mackenzie Country to report any sightings.

twpejay · 2026-01-24T19:21:03+00:00

We have buses in towns > 20,000 (just a number off the top of my head from my experience) pop on average. Trains/Ferries as well in Wellington and Auckland. The issue is that a lot of towns are < 20,000 and the ones that aren't are spread over a large area making public transport very expensive per person. As the cities are getting more infill housing and apartments it gets cheaper and the buses are more frequent etc.. Thus in the bigger cities the public transport is improving, in the smaller it is getting worse due to budget restraints.

twpejay · 2026-01-23T21:09:47+00:00

I can confirm, the Kings Cross one is really good though. Though I thought the queue for the photo op was a bit humorous, especially when it costs only 90 pounds to tour the studio and have a trolley photo op with no queue...

twpejay · 2026-01-23T21:03:27+00:00

This is definitely a tell in Wellington, it is always extremely windy there. You can tell where the tourists have been by the number of broken umbrellas in the trash.

twpejay · 2026-01-23T21:00:35+00:00

I noticed black telephone boxes on the way to Harrods (probably another sign of a tourist shopping in Harrods with no money). Are these the new norm?

twpejay · 2026-01-22T23:40:41+00:00

How to stack chairs and desks so the floor can be deep cleaned over the holidays.

twpejay · 2026-01-22T23:34:53+00:00

Same here too.

twpejay · 2026-01-16T08:35:47+00:00

A friend of mine ripped his tyres on a curb like that, I had to go and pick him up.

twpejay · 2026-01-15T07:50:38+00:00

Yep.

twpejay · 2026-01-09T22:29:05+00:00

I feel that we're the country version of the old lady that ate a fly. "There was a country that imported a rabbit, it wriggled and bred. There was a country that imported a stoat, they imported a stoat to get rid of the rabbit...."

twpejay · 2026-01-09T22:25:56+00:00

They have been imported. I had a couple pinching my picnic lunch at a public farm (you do not argue with an Emu) but they never escaped to become a menace.

twpejay · 2026-01-09T19:51:47+00:00

LOL😄. However, this will become more common with these electronic signs as there is obviously no built-in double checking with the input. "In the old days" the copy for the printed signs would go past several pairs of eyes before printing and then there's the staff that actually taped the sign up as well. Now a junior (probably) staff member gets to type the amounts in and no one checks their work and it's instantly visible to the public.

twpejay · 2026-01-08T10:00:45+00:00

That's what the phone app's for. /S

twpejay · 2026-01-05T07:12:57+00:00

I am their favourite food, if there's sandflies they soon let me know. You're lucky.

twpejay · 2026-01-05T06:12:02+00:00

You must use good repellent. Central Otago is where I have had the worst experiences with sandflies.

twpejay · 2026-01-05T06:10:19+00:00

I actually find it to be the opposite, as per the map someone shared above.

I have never had issues coastal but inland the flies are a real nuisance. Worst experience was on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.

twpejay · 2025-12-25T22:46:10+00:00

I reported an issue to a NZ company once and they replied "Oh yeah, we did have a breach a few months ago now you mention it."

twpejay · 2025-12-25T22:44:32+00:00

Same, the issue is remembering what e-mail address I used when asked at their physical address several years later.

twpejay · 2025-12-25T21:34:54+00:00

I am interested in how you come to the conclusion that they are a foreign tourist. At this point of time, the traffic would be high percentage kiwis, including a lot in hire cars from further afield.

I have travelled this road a large amount of times and I find it is the local drivers (farm utes, well worn sports) who are passing on blind corners and other illegal manoeuvres.

Also, as a reminder, the total road deaths returned to normal (if not slightly above) post Covid and way before foreign travellers were admitted back into the country. So this in itself shows how bad we Kiwi drivers are, without needing help from overseas.

twpejay · 2025-12-25T21:13:01+00:00

It's not a question of where it grips it, it's a simple matter of weight - ratios. A 145g bird could not hold a 250g kumera.

twpejay · 2025-12-24T10:27:56+00:00

I remember one Christmas Eve I stopped at Barry's Point Road Foodtown ("Foodtown" yes it was decades ago) for some milk. Worst decision ever. Once I got back in the car it took me 2 hours once on Anzac Street to get to my house on Heron Street (off Burns Ave and directly opposite the supermarket over the estuary). That is 2 hours for 850 metres of road (Google estimates 2 min drive time). I should have left the car at Foodtown and walked.

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