There are chargers, and there are chargersFor long EV journeys, abide by the three Ps: planning, pliability and patience. We don't rush you to buy a car. So I'm keen to carry as much momentum as is prudent into roundabouts and corners, where the i-Pace just feels mighty. The gorgeous Caesium Blue paint is perfectly set off by the privacy glass, exterior black pack and matching 19in gloss black five-spoke alloys (that little lot alone would cost you more than £2k on a new car today), resulting in what must be one of the sharpest-looking wagons available today. It's not just me. 1. A 50kW charger is deemed rapid, but still takes over an hour to get 100 miles of range. A rare example of a Jaguar supercar - which was once the fastest road car on the planet - is up for sale. Today, BP Chargemaster fits my 7kW ‘socketed’ smart home charger! I connect the Jag to the home charger, and both parties glow green at their first union. So that leads to question #5: ‘Would you have another electric car?’ This lifestyle is not for the inflexible, disorganised or shy. And there's another benefit to consider: doing those miles in the most economical F-Pace diesel would cost a minimum of 12.3p a mile; in the i-Pace it was 7.3p for this trip. The interior is similarly packed with kit, from the uprated Meridian sound system to the electric seats and winter pack, although, as ever with premium brands such as Jaguar, BMW and Mercedes, it’s surprising how many of these items were optional extras, whereas they'd be standard kit on a high-spec Kia, Peugeot or Nissan at a fraction of the price. No such problems in my house, so the ex-renewable electricity engineer drills through the wall, hammers in an earthing rod and wires up the charger. A punchy twin-turbodiesel F-Pace, though still down 100bhp and a couple of seconds to 62mph on the electric Jag, would need around £78 to gas for 500 miles. And the i-Pace does all it’s asked: a deep boot stows pram, scooters or luggage, the rear seats fold not-quite-flat but still handle recycling runs. Life with an electric car and without a home wallbox requires compromises. 4. i-Bloomin' lovely to driveRegular readers will know we love the i-Pace dynamically. Conversation topic #1 is ‘How far does it go?’ – range and charging anxiety are uppermost in the human psyche. I put the air-con on auto, but eschew the rear screen demister. Our extensive Jaguar network provides new cars and approved used car sales while undertaking all types of Jaguar servicing. What Car? The low-profile rubber doesn’t compromise the air of civility or composed ride on £1100 air springs. There is a certain mystique to the Jaguar name that has endured despite the attempts of various management teams to devalue it over the years. On this short local trip, the addition of a bike carrier had no meaningful impact on the electric range. Meaty but not onerous, direct but not flighty, it makes every corner a delight. Giddily, I rag the i-Pace the rest of the way: opening up the e-afterburners to pass a ponderous Corsa and the number 60 bus, scything through the sweepers in the damp darkness. On this trip, I fastidiously used Eco mode, optimising the air-con and my right foot with a real-time consumption coach. But the charger blurb says present your Radio-Frequency ID card to use the charger: NOOOOOO! Cooling or warming the car remotely is also possible. All registered in England and Wales. So we had a video call to discuss it. There's 13 miles to St Albans, I've got a fully charged battery, half a packet of Polo mints, it's dark out and so on. The i-Pace's base price is £64,4995 (though the government's plug-in car grant will chop £3000 off that), but this example has a whopping £16k of options. The Herb Chambers Companies has renovated its Jaguar Land Rover dealership in Sudbury, where you can build and customize your new sedan or SUV. Finally the work is done and Fountain talks me through how to use it. So when you've got the sand out of your shoes and the tan has faded, you can reflect on a few quid saved, and zero tailpipe emissions. All of this got me thinking: I wonder what Jaguar's chief engineer Mike Cross makes of his handiwork a couple of years on? The unvarnished truth is that too many chargers are inoperable for various reasons, so your well-laid plan needs a fallback position, and quaffing 50kW for an hour-plus only gives about 100 i-Pace miles. The shallow end is CAR HQ, with a row of 10 restorative chargers, and a mere smattering of plug-in hybrids and full EVs to suckle on them. I arrive home. Bliss. Price £64,995 (£80,980 as tested) Performance 90kWh battery, twin e-motors, 395bhp, 4.8sec 0-62mph, 124mph Efficiency 2.5 miles per kWh (official), 2.4 miles per kWh (tested) Energy cost 4.6p per mile Miles this month 1036 Total miles 13,126, Cost new £80,980 Part exchange £51,660 Cost per mile 4.6p Cost per mile including depreciation £2.69. It was produced across five basic platform generations (debuting in 1968, 1986, 1994, 2003 … The roads out of Edgware after midnight are empty and national speed limit, so I accelerate hard. The iPace absolutely can do staycationsThe best certified iPace range is 292 miles: well-equipped, big-wheeled OW19 TKF offers 220 when 'brimmed'. If so, make sure you visit our Used Car Buying section, where you'll find thousands of used cars for sale. 'So we focused on steering, ride, handling, NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) – all the things that make a Jaguar. It costs £449 after the subsidy – and worth every penny. Price £64,995 (£80,980 as tested)Performance 90kWh battery, two e-motors, 395bhp, 4.8sec 0-62mph, 124mphEfficiency 2.5 miles per kWh (official), 2.2 miles per kWh (tested), 0g/km CO2Energy cost 5.5p per mileMiles this month 293Total miles 10,730. Looks like tomorrow's going to be an office day after all. And I can do all that routine stuff of locking it remotely, and beeping the horn and flashing the lights to locate the car, though the neighbours seem to find this feature less essential than I. This experiment will span winter's toughest months – how will that impact the 292-mile maximum range of the lightest i-Pace? Such niggles are history – the iPace offers Apple CarPlay as part of its hugely improved Touch Pro Duo control interface. The Hub of the British car universe Where cars become stars Primum non nocere . The ride is pretty comfortable considering we're rolling on elegant tractor wheels. Although it’s only a 1997cc four-cylinder unit, the turbocharged engine has all the muscle of a 3.0-litre ‘six’, flinging the big estate from 0-60mph in just 5.7sec and on to an electronically limited maximum of 155mph (apparently). Jaguar’s favourite prey is herbivores weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 lb). But ever since I joined the one per cent, I can fill all kinds of conversational vacuums. In 1988, the Jaguar XJR-9 broke records when it won the 24 Hours of Daytona race. Costly at £2900, but i-Paces on the standard 18s look severely under-wheeled. Many of us now have no place to drive to. Swing the wheel and the brilliance of the electric Jag's steering comes flooding back. The rack feels pretty heavy but the response is anything but leaden, turning in eagerly and positively. The electric motors, one per axle, each spin out 197bhp. It's dark and teeming with rain when I arrive with 70 miles left and anxiety about whether it'll be available: YEEEESSSS! Audi e-Tron take note. The blue is the best i-Pace colour, as vibrant and eye-catching as Photon Red, but classier. We’ve acquired a used example to see whether its pleasures can be enjoyed on a budget Classic Jaguar restoration, parts and services since 1976 . Many years ago, a Ford PR man told me – approvingly – that I didn’t have any small talk. VAT no 918 5617 01 Borrowed editor-in-chief Phil McNamara's i-Pace for a weekend away (pre-lockdown, before I get told off!) 845898), Jaguar i-Pace electric car: the 13,000-mile verdict is in, Our Jaguar i-Pace plays family bike ride support vehicle, Our built-in electric towbar couples easily with the Thule towbar - so we can carry up to four bicycles, Jaguar and Waymo are teaming up to make 20,000 self-driving i-Paces. Price £64,995 (£80,980 as tested)Performance 90kWh battery, two e-motors, 395bhp, 4.8sec 0-62mph, 124mphEfficiency 2.5 miles per kWh (official), 2.1 miles per kWh (tested), 0g/km CO2Energy cost 5.0p per mileMiles this month 1522Total miles 8297. With the answer ‘none of the above’, BP were satisfied my single-phase power supply would be sufficient, and checked the smart charger’s SIM card would have sufficient signal connectivity. It also won the Le Mans during the same year as … I'd bite my nails, but I daren't take off my gloves. Should Jaguar pay to fix my XF’s rusty door panels? 'Apart from low-speed ride, there aren't any circumstances where weight would be a positive. All that’s to be expected, though, given the i-Pace will be more power hungry than this year’s Democratic National Convention. Take it easy – a doddle when averaging 57mph on the A303, with bonus rollercoaster descents to recoup energy – and you can see a 1:1 ratio between miles travelled and decreasing range. But I’m a sucker for a glass roof (£960), and this i-Pace looks sensational (even when dirty) in £700 Caesium Blue paint, with £260 black trim flourishes and pricey 22-inch alloys (£2900). The 50kW DC charger starts... then stops! With its instant performance, air of calm, vast cabin space and low running costs, it’s a great electric car. That’s still not exactly pocket change, but it represents a heavyweight saving of around 60% compared with the new car. Jaguar Eaton M90 and Eaton M112 Supercharger Rebuild Services ... Our long-standing reputation for outstanding customer service and our trusted warranty is peace of mind. Rosettes on head and neck are usually solid, as are those on the tail, where they may merge to form a band. Other big learnings were that my electricity supplier would have to fit an isolation switch to neutralise the circuit during the install, and that it would be a real squeeze to get the home charger’s circuit breaker into my fuse locker. But there is a way, of course, to bring it within reach of the merely comfortably off rather than the seriously wealthy, and that’s to go second-hand. The 0-62mph sprint takes less than 5.0sec – not quite hypercar-quick, but hypercars don't seat five or emit zero tailpipe pollution. Turn-in can be enhanced by the standard all-wheel drive system, with torque vectoring to manage the torque flow at each corner – sometimes you feel the outer wheel spooling up to push the nose in. H Bauer Publishing are authorised and regulated for credit broking by the FCA (Ref No. It's the one thing you use all the time. Its longest stint was 191 miles to deepest Cornwall using Eco mode: as you can read in our Month 7 update below, I never pushed my luck further. I arrive at the Goodwood Hotel – with sufficient range to get home tomorrow. is part of Haymarket Automotive, a division of Haymarket Media Group © Haymarket Media Group 2021, 2021 Jaguar XF revealed: price, specs and release date, Used Car of the Year Awards contenders: luxury cars, Used test: Audi A7 vs BMW 5 Series vs Jaguar XF costs. How long and how often to run a vehicle during the COVID-19 pandemic is a good question. Has Jag’s compact saloon been worth the wait? Inevitably, it’s the options that depreciate first, so someone else has taken the hit on all of those things that you might put down as nice-to-haves when specifying your new car but end up leaving off as the price racks up. Throat, outer surface of the legs, underbelly and the lower flanks are white. Good job too, because having to pile speed back on is the enemy of range. Its base coat is usually tawny yellow, but can range to reddish-brown and black. After a few choice words suggesting other households might be more amenable, I was delighted to have my misconception challenged and welcomed in BP Chargemaster’s technical and home charging experts Andrew Stead and Elaine Butler. We did manage a one-stop strategy coming home, thanks to the 125kW Instavolt chargers at the Route 303 diner near Honiton. 'I wanted the i-Pace to be a Jaguar first and foremost, just one that happened to have a different powertrain,' says the head of vehicle integrity, whose team set the dynamic parameters for every Jag and Land Rover. The team also scoped out my appetite for heavy-duty electrical items, such as a hot tub, underfloor heating or a shed of power tools for dismembering Jehovah’s Witnesses. The binnacle says 151 miles, and 58% of the battery, remain. It swallowed our Christmas tree with ease, and there should be plenty of space for the kids and dogs in the back. To access InControl Remote, once you've registered your Jag on the website, you sit in your car and press the Optimised Assistance button in the overhead panel. Although memory seats were handy because my wife is half my size, I never used the front-seat cooling and the rear heaters were buried under child seats – bank that £4k. Here's the workday routine: draw 7kW of charge for nine hours at the office, insufficient time to fully replenish the i-Pace's 90kWh battery. It’s serious stuff, with a chunky cable externally and no room to hide the circuit breaker inside, and five hours of work. The related question is typically ‘How much does it cost to run?’ On a cheap overnight tariff, an i-Pace charge totalled £8, so about £20 for 500 miles. One month and one isolation switch later, BP Chargemaster engineer Colin Fountain is parking his Transit Connect on my drive. 'It was fast, effortless, refined, fun to drive – everything a Jaguar should be.' Or shall we liken that to my house, 65 miles from the office, and currently devoid of wallbox. Everyone who took a turn – from EV sceptic Ben Miller to my wife – was smitten by the way it drives. 2017 NFL Draft Draft Coverage at Sporting News. And discourse. When it was registered in November 2018, my XF Sportbrake cost its new owner a whopping £55,315, including more than £10,000 worth of extras. The weapons-grade variant of Jaguar's SUV, the 2021 F-Pace SVR takes the lovely design and smooth ride of the base ute and adds V-8 thrust. ', Was the battery weight a problem? This did not go exactly to plan, largely because I was laid up in bed with an illness and felt somewhat aggrieved to be repeatedly bothered by a smartly dressed couple knocking on my door, presumably to enrol me in a religious organisation. We eked 200 miles from the Jaguar, despite stuffing it with five people and luggage. XJR-9. Jaguar Classic is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the legendary C-type sports racer by creating a strictly limited production run of new C-type Continuation cars, which will be hand-built at the world-class Jaguar Land Rover Classic Works facility in Coventry, U.K. Still, the other day it swallowed two small bikes and a scooter, plus a back-up pram. Not that one per cent, the single-digit (but rapidly growing) club of UK motorists who buy a new electric car. All long and winding roads lead to our doors. My destination for tonight, but 'the start of a journey' in the parlance of Love Island contestants and clunking sports stars. And that ethos still guides Jaguar – as everyone who drives the i-Pace seems to agree. Jaguar not only has a drug that not only is impactful against a key symptom of Covid-19 long-hauler syndrome, but is responsibly and ethically sourced, as well. I love gazing out the window at the i-Pace. The 577-litre boot is pretty big too, but it's deep rather than tall. The dual-motor i-Pace launches like a cannonball, steers with a ballerina’s deftness, and grips like Loctite – thank those low-set battery cells between the wheels. St Ives' only chargers were four gratis 7kW Pod Points at Tesco: thank heavens for no parking time restriction, because we needed to charge overnight. Auto Parts; Jaguar Parts; Find Genuine Jaguar OEM Parts & Accessories Online. The Jaguar XJ220 being sold by Slades Garage for £425,000. Sure it feels more tense than my outgoing Citroën C5 Aircross's, bucking more noticeably over expansion joints but it's not abrupt. 5. Jump on the other pedal and the i-Pace takes off in that distinctively electric car way: from perambulating to punching holes in the horizon, as instantly as a click of impatient fingers. It felt no different to drive and is proof - were it needed - that you can do normal everyday stuff with electric cars. But fully charged, our luxuriously equipped car didn’t display a range north of 225 miles under my keeping. 'It's always about the next car,' he replies. So this is it: my immersion into full electric motoring starts here, with this Jaguar i-Pace. It’s characterful, too, particularly when you select Dynamic mode, when that acceleration is accompanied by a purposeful growl, and the firm suspension, four-wheel drive and beautifully weighted and accurate steering combine to make the XF feel remarkably agile for such a heavy beast. Open the door and the Jaguar leaper dances on the central digital screen, while the digital instrument binnacle announces its fully charged range, my very own Oscars' Best Picture moment of suspense. 2. My Thule bike carrier plugs straight into the 13-pin electrics and all the lights and indicators sync seamlessly with the Jag's electrics. But of all the cars I've done, the [2009] XFR is probably still my favourite actually. 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