Driver stories
The drive that started this.
These are our own field notes, not marketing quotes. Every claim below is a logged number from a real South African drive — the same kind of evidence any driver can add to the Honesty Index.
Field notes
Advertised 150 kW. It gave 65, with both bays empty and nothing reported as faulty.
30 kW from a site rated far higher — it was quietly sharing a cabinet with the bay beside it.
Three failed starts in eight minutes, then it worked as if nothing happened.
The pack is sold as 67 kWh. Measured end to end, it gave 63 usable. Every plan built on 67 was optimistic.
What the car actually used
Measured over the same corridor, a straight-line fit at r² 0.985. Speed costs more than most range estimates admit.
- 96 km/h
- 4.90 km/kWh
- 115 km/h
- 4.20 km/kWh
- 125 km/h
- 3.99 km/kWh
- 136 km/h
- 3.40 km/kWh
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