New 2024 Mazda MX-30 R-EV | Can A Rotary Work For EVs?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Today on Buckle Up Harry and Rob drive Mazda's first EV, the MX-30. But this time it's got a range extender, and it's a rotary!
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This ia a 26 minute video with 8 minutes of content and 18 minutes of chatter.
The chatter is what 80000 people have subscribed for
pls dont shoot on apple's wide angle camera, the quality is so bad
It wasn’t. The rain was a pain in the arse, though.
tbh the quality is poor on a good day for these guys 🤭
And yet you keep coming back to watch 😅
I think that the Mazda with the front-hinged doors is the RX-8, not 7.
Rear-hinged, rather.
That would be a slip of the tongue on our part
What a load of useless chatter. Let’s start with some basics. This is a phev with an EV range of about 60 miles that is best suited for two people with occasional people in rear. This is not the best for a family with kids. Next, you never touch the CHARGE switch. This drops fuel consumption to about 32-34 mpg equivalent. For long drives put car in NORMAL and after about 35 miles, the motor will come on and hold that level. When you are within 25 miles of base, switch back to EV and go home to your base charger (about 2.1 pence per mile.) If you need to give your car an electric boost, pull into a Tesco for a coffee. The cost of the charge per mile is less than petrol.
Why do motoring reviewers have a fascination with the CHARGE button? Leave it alone! Only use this if you are heading for an ‘electric vehicle only’ zone. Other than sustaining the 20-25 miles battery charge, the motor will not come on ‘full-time’ unless you. stay in EV to near zero. In this case it switches to CHARGE and lowers the overall performance (and fuel consumption) of the car. But motoring reviewers always switch it on, chatter about its food mixer sound (very quiet) and then whinge sbout the fuel consumption.
This is a great car if your life style is mostly less than 60 miles in a day. If so, miles covered are cheap as chips. If you have occasional longer trips, switch to NORMAL and switch back to EV within the battery indicator of EV miles left.
I have completed the last 1800 miles with £60 of petrol and the tank is still a little under half full. This includes a lot of EV only local driving and some longer trips.
The car is great to drive, has fabulous interior and is free from a sticky touchscreen (except climate). To get the best economy, you have to manage that NORMAL/EV switch. And if you need a boost of coffee and a few kWh then stop at Tesco (or wherever they have cheap chargers). Whatever you do, DON’T switch to CHARGE. And then you’ll find out why ‘What Car’ gave this car five stars.
If you only do 60 miles or less a day literally any other EV would do the job just as well without the needless complication and pointless rear seats. Harry's preference would be a Kia Soul
baby capsules have handles. babies are in strollers. if the is no passenger to help with getting the baby in, don't fret. leave the front seat folded forward, where it was when you took the baby out, even if you do want to challenge yourself and do everything one-handedly. or don't have babies.
What's a stroller? Do you mean a Pram?
@@BuckleUpShow yeah that's what we call them here in australia too. but i think we need to crack into the american market for views
I refuse to do anything purely for the convenience of a Yank, sort of the same way Mazda has refused to fit a convenient way to getting anything into the back of this car
mazda never should have installed back seats in the first place and rather, marketed it as the world's most convenient 2-seater.
this is what happens when you try to be all things to all people
Has made me crave Doritos! Never thought of their engine tech as them before 😂
#notsponsored
@@BuckleUpShow 🤣
Makes one of the worst compromise EV's that meets no one's needs. 'See, people don't want EV's!'
If it lets them justify the MX-5 to the bean counters then we'll allow it
I disagree with what's being said here. You're not buying this car because you have kids! The back seats are an afterthought really and the suicide doors a conversation piece. It's for a single person who only occasionally carries passengers.
We don’t want to be rude, but if you think suicide doors are a conversation piece, you probably won’t have any friends. So just buy an MX-5 in that case.
@@BuckleUpShow You really aren't too bright are ya...
Leaves me conflicted on practabiliy ,but for quirkiness and something different I would want one..
Have you considered the Kia Soul
@@BuckleUpShow ,will when my lease is up in two years. Driving GT line S auto stonic at the moment. Your review on that reaffirmed my decision to get one at the time. Been more than happy.
Glad we've been useful!
Japanese car makers have gone crazy
What makes you say that?
@@BuckleUpShow the doors there make no sense at all for a family car
Ah yes, those are certainly interesting
@@ianrob4760 It's not a family car.
At least they've tried something different I guess
But they'd already tried these doors on the RX-8, and no one really liked them then either
@@BuckleUpShowThe doors are not an obstacle. It is a matter of habit.
It makes a one step process, into a two step process. That is an obstacle.
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How many times do you open the back doors every day?
Now you’re just making excuses for the car and by extension, you’re admitting it’s a problem.
Any insight on possible changes for 2025?
They’ve only just launched this model, so it’s unlikely they’ll be doing anything next year.
Under 6 miles per litre? Can't be right 🤷
How so? It’s a 680cc rotary that’s acting as a generator. Efficiency was never the rotaty’s strong point. It was the car that was showing a combined range of 280 miles, so it was probably more optimistic than reality if anything.