B5 default?

[greendwarf]

That's a rather patronising generalisation. You've obviously never been there, they have plenty of those.

And as narrow as ours with such poor sight lines?

 

[ChrisMiller]

Hi Chris

Can I ask you why you select B5? I'm a new owner and when I start up I set to B0 and only use B5 by paddling on down hill stretches and as a replacement to the foot brake where possible to recharge the EV battery. I was just curious why you would start off in B5, am I missing something?

Thanks
Pete

Lots of 1:6/15% hills where I live (Chilterns, England), so B5 makes the most of regeneration. With experience, you can 'balance' the accelerator to get close to the effect of B0. If you don't drive EVs all the time, B0 can 'catch you out' because there's no slowing down at all, unlike what you get in an ICE when you lift off the accelerator while in gear (I think B2=D is intended to most closely replicate that experience).

 

[Nigel McGoldrick]

There's a simulated 'engine noise' when you drive below ~35 mph (to alert other road users, particularly pedestrians to your presence). This can be turned off (on my 2016 model) with a dashboard button.

Mind if I ask where is this button, or what does it look like?

 

[ChrisMiller]

Mind if I ask where is this button, or what does it look like?

It's a 'loudspeaker' icon (with a corresponding warning light on the dash. The button to operate it is below and to the right of the steering wheel (on my British 2016 spec model, YMMV).

 

[Nigel McGoldrick]

It's a 'loudspeaker' icon (with a corresponding warning light on the dash. The button to operate it is below and to the right of the steering wheel (on my British 2016 spec model, YMMV).

Many thanks Chris. I'm excited that after two years of ownership I find I have buttons I never new existed.

 

[David Andrew]

On my model, it makes the 'cylon sound' a semi-musical woobly-woobly sound at low speeds.

You can turn it off with a switch on the Dashboard.

I don't turn mine off because otherwise the only thing to alert pedestrians is the horn if you are travelling slowly along a residential road.

 

[greendwarf]

I don't turn mine off because otherwise the only thing to alert pedestrians is the horn if you are travelling slowly along a residential road.

Driving into them also works