Almost a new owner

[Stratman]

Tommorow is the day! I collect my 2020 i3 120 and dip my toes into the world of electric motoring and indeed BMW.
My current car has made its last journey (apart from a few yards getting it off the carport) yesterday and will probably be turned into (just) enough cash to buy a used TaylorMade Stealth 2 driver. Either that or donate it to the local fire station for practice. It's a 2004 Mercedes (don't judge me) C200CDi estate, and has been a magnificent car. Its trip over the weekend achieved 71mpg there and 65mpg back but it received the dreaded rear subframe and brake pipe corrosion advisory at its last MOT and that's a big job so off it must go.

No doubt I'll have a million and one newbie questions about my new purchase once I get it home and make some sort of charging arrangements that hopefully won't burn down the house. I'll look forward to spending far too much time in here, I'll report back when I get it home.

 

[Stratman]

Right, I've got my new car and am very imressed thus far. Mind you, I've only driven it home, around twenty miles through car-hating South London and to the golf course and back, five miles in total. I'm still getting used to regen braking, I tend to lift off too early but I hope it will come with practice. Even so, I only touched the footbrake pedal twice driving it home and one of those was instinct. I have a hundred and sixty mile round trip this weekend and so I'll be dipping my toe into the world of public charging. Wish me luck!
As promised I have a load of questions, I'll at least try to ask them in the relevant forums.

 

[eNate]

The regen thing is something you'll quickly get accustom to.

My dear wife was an infrequent driver of the i3 and just didn't get a grasp of it until she began driving her own EV, and after about a week figured it out. Kind of odd I thought as at that point she had been downshifting manual transmissions for longer than me, I figured it would have been a more natural transition.

But as long as your cognizant of it, you'll pick it up in no time!

 

[Whereitis]

I have grown to love one-pedal driving and am sorely disappointed that my newer RAV4 Prime doesn't have it, or at least not enough to let you stay off the brakes when stopping. The Toy also creeps at lights, so I'm guessing they're trying to make it reproduce as much as possible the driving experience of an ICE vehicle. If only I could justify keeping two plug-in hybrid vehicles! Alas, the i3 will go, but not without looking fondly back at its airy cabin, nimble handling and quirky but agreeable driving character.

 

[eNate]

The Toy also creeps at lights, so I'm guessing they're trying to make it reproduce as much as possible the driving experience of an ICE vehicle.

I also have an ID.4 in the driveway, which like your RAV4 also has creep functionality built in.

After four years creep is still a bit of an annoyance. But I think there's a school of thought to back it up: slow speed maneuvering ie. parking can be accomplished using very precise throttle control (ala the i3) or through a combination of creep + brake pedal modulation. While I love the precision BMW achieved with their method, I can understand the comfort factor provided my VW's method (and apparently Toyota's) for a driver with a twitchy, clumsy, or heavy foot. Because at least with creep controlling the speed, an errant pedal input will stop the car rather than accelerate it.

The most enlightening thing to me is that although the i3 is my primary driver, my wife and I both drive the other car often enough, and there's never been a hint of pedal confusion or acclimation or, most importantly, an incident/accident because of this -- and we parallel park both cars on the street in front our house every time we arrive home.