Category: funky cat

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Couldn’t get them to work

When I was considering an electric vehicle, I was concerned about where I could charge the car. I had seen electric charging points around Weston, including some in the Queensway shopping centre in Worle, next to Aldi.

On a shopping trip I had planned to use these charging points. They did not work with my contactless debit card. However, despite downloading an app, I couldn’t get them to work. 

Having spent too much time trying to get them to work, I gave up and headed off to park in a “normal” space.

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Charging in Bristol

Drove to Bristol. Parked at a Health Club and Spa to charge the car. Checked with reception if I needed to register my car, I didn’t. I then went to plug the car in. I couldn’t get it to charge, so moved to the second charger, this time it worked.

I had some jobs to do, so I did those before heading back to the car. I didn’t do a full charge, but drove off to Cabot Circus.

I had intended to top up my charge using their charge points, but they were all full. So, I had to park in a “normal” space. I had sufficient charge to get home.

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Emergency Steering Function doesn’t work

Finally worked out why I was getting alerts with my Funky. I had the Emergency Steering Function enabled. This feature will ensure that you don’t drift off the road.

Well let’s just say it doesn’t work. Well it does work, just that it doesn’t work with the roads I drive on. After doing some “testing” I found that the system wasn’t getting confused with the lines (or lack of lines) on the road. It was also inconsistent.

So now I am turning it off when I start driving. I was also frustrated to see that despite switching it off, the car doesn’t remember that setting, so I have to turn it off every time I get into the car.

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First time charging

Drove to work today in Funky and at work set the car to charge. This was not as simple and as easy as I thought it was going to be. I think this was partly as it wasn’t as simple as plugging in the cables and the car charging. However I got there in the end. I didn’t though manage to get to a 100% charge.

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It has arrived

After much thought my new car has arrived. It is a GWM ORA Funky Cat First Edition.

I had been thinking about making the move to electric for some time. In the end I went with a GWM Ora Funky Cat. I will be writing about my experiences with it and publishing them on the blog.

This is a fully electric car and I chose the red and black model.

I’ve never driven an electric car before. The Ora Funky Cat is an electric car, so is also an automatic. Also I’ve only driven an automatic once before, and that was a hire car in Scotland back in March 2006 and that was a (huge) Volkswagen Passat estate. The Funky Cat also has an electric parking brake, so no handbrake. 

It was with some trepidation that I sat in the car and drove off…