Electric Cars: He chose an MGS5, the Electric Car Journey
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What is the introduction to the electric car journey?
This is Two Blokes Talking Electric Cars with Trevor Long and Steven Fenwick. Thanks to NRMA Insurance and Uniden.
And we do it all thanks to the great people at NRMA, helping Australians protect what matters most for 100 years and more to come. And one of Australia's largest insurers of electric vehicles. And Uniden, smart dash cams. If you've got a car, you should have a dash cam. It's really quite simple because it gives you that peace of mind of knowing exactly what happened around you is recorded. Even while you're parked too, parking. Absolutely, parking. A lot of things happen when your car's parked. A lot of things happen when your car's parked. So you've got that evidence. And hey, if something silly happens, put it on the internet. It's fun. We've got a lot to get through today, a lot of calls to get through, and we'd love to hear from you, 0477 657 657.
If you'd love to talk about where you're at in your electric car journey, just get in touch. Save our number as the two blokes in your phone, and you can send us a WhatsApp or a text message thanks to Vodafone. It's as simple as that, and you can get in touch, and then we'll get in touch with you and get you on the show. It doesn't matter whether you've owned an electric car for 15 years or five minutes, or you're just starting to think about it. You're just starting to think about an electric car, and you've got questions. No judgment here. It's a no judgment zone. I'm a little judgy of Tesla owners, but I'm just being honest. No, I'm not really. It's a joke. It's a running joke. Actually, there's been some text messages, Stephen, from people about my Tesla hate.
And you've got to understand, it's a running joke. The toad, the frog. It lets you say Elon Musk is still doing very well. Yeah, I mean, the bloke's a trillionaire. He's a trillionaire. Not doing too bad. Yeah, nothing dodgy about that IPO at all. Take your calls and we'll do that all through this show. Danny's on the line. G'day, Danny. How are you going? Yeah, really good, mate. You've picked up a Geely EX5, mate, what, a month or so ago now. How's that gone for you?
It is, and it's been a great purchase from my point of view. We went through a lot of umming and ahhing, and we're updating from a Ford Territory diesel car. Very common car.
That was a very, very popular car. And there's a lot of people starting to really age out of the Ford territory. So I think it's a really good observation of where this car, like the Geely and others, might be perfect for that replacement. Was it an obvious one for size or what dragged you to the Geely?
Okay, so we looked at a number of cars like everyone else that does the journey. Hatch was a good idea. And we looked at the Hyundai. What's that one? That's the Hatch. Or Kona? No, no, no, no. Not the Kona either. Oh, the Insta?
That's too small. It wouldn't be that.
That's too small.
The most recent one, the Elixir or whatever it's called? Yeah, that's the one. Good little car. That's not what it's called, but it's something like that. But a really good little car for sure.
but i did not like not having the dashboard in front of me that it was an overhead display and then a big screen to the side of the steering wheel yeah and um having said that now that i own one that's got the overhead display the behind the steering wheel display and a larger screen I don't look at the screen behind the steering wheel.
You've realised you don't need the instrument cluster when you've got a good head-up display on the windscreen. Absolutely, yeah. Mate, I'll be honest with you. I thought on the Alexia, and you didn't get to drive it because we were in a rotation, but it had this really weird head-up display that wasn't in the middle of the windscreen. It was actually down the bottom in the kind of black bar area, and I loved it. It was kind of recessed in there. It looked really good, but you're right. You think you want it. You think you want that screen behind the steering wheel, but if you've got a head-up display... It's all you need as long as it's showing you the basic details.
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