That the plastic covering has been peeled off the reversing camera, often missed.

 

Four wheels: Check
NO engine: Check
Both types of cable charger in boot: Check

Your dealer should FULLY charge the battery before collection. Your dealer should walk you round ALL the car's facilities, highlighting any features unique to the EV.

Other than that the walkround checks are the same as for any vehicle. Use the search term `clipboard` to find the topic from last August which covered this...

If the car is parked close to a wall when you arrive insist the dealer move it so you have free and easy access all around before you commence your internal and external checks. Then use the system we discussed back then. Buy a clipboard!

The car is extremely unlikely to have been used for drag racing, and it's done more than a handful of miles ask why but do NOT criticise. Anything up to about 20 miles shows delivery mileage and a through road test, not demo use. And undriven car by contrast shows a slovenly dealer. I would only query mileage of it was above 30 miles.

Not sure why the battery manufacture date has any meaning? If the car was uncharged from point of manufacture then the battery will be flat. The manufacturer check involves driving the vehicle a handful of yards and that may have been all the use it has had, but the traction battery should have been checked as part of the PDI. The date is NO clue as to the efficacy of the battery and I don't think you can see the traction battery date from the car anyway...

12v battery issues seem to be a consequence of other problems with only a couple of actual battery issues reported here, so the battery itself doesn't tell you anything.

Are you sure you are not worrying unnecessarily? Just do normal vehicle checks. Electric vehicles are fundamentally simple tools!

 

Hi Simon,

These are the things I was checking when picking it up. It had no problems, except for plastic that was removed (the plastic is blue on a blue car, hard to detect. So, the car was fine and except for winter tyres not being mounted, the dealer did a fine job.

The 12V battery date was an issue with some cars that waited long to hit the road, and as I wasn't certain when it was manufactured, I wanted to check.

There was one history entry of high energy consumtion, but as you say, should not be a dealbreaker at all. I was just worried that it may have been used for sales activities, as most dealers do not stock them at all, so it was my experience that it was hard to get a test drive, and if this car was in stock for some time, it may have been used to demo to prospective customers.

That's a totally different story for my lease company however, like no charge card for my own home pod (The New Motion), no access to highway fast charge stations with my MTC card. So I have to charge the car at one of 4 charge pods in the neighbourhood, and get winter tyres.

But so far, the car has been amazing. I drove it for about 500km so far, including the way home from the dealer. Fast charged 2 times which was so fast we could barely finish our coffee, and the other times on a 11KW charger, as well as the level 1 to top up once. My wife has severe range anxiety, but as I will be on my own for 95% of the time, I'm not worried.

 

the range anxiety will fade as she gets used to the car and the additional stops will just become part of life on a long run

trick appears to be a bit of careful planning for long runs , topping up may be one charger before you need to in case of a non functioning charger or adverse weather

 

As Bluecar says, when you're in you `own` area you will soon get comfortable with the range.
Then it's only distance trips that you need to allow for with planning.