We drove these new electric cars until they DIED!

Hi everyone, Matt Watson, here at Car Wow, I've rounded up six of the latest small

electric

cars

because I want to know what their real-world range is and how far you can drive them on a full battery until

they

die. cargo, I also want to see what happens when

they

run out of cargo, the wheels suddenly lock, the power steering stops working, who knows well, I'm going to find out and to do so we'll get them out of this service. station on the outskirts of London in the north until they sell out sounds simple, I probably won't buy a new car, so head to Car Wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price.

Car Wow, your car purchase in one place. comparison site we're off, we're leaving the service station, let's see how far we can go with a full load this little slingshot racer starts from just over £27,000 which includes its £3,000 government subsidy this particular version It's the advanced model, so it has extra kit and it also has a higher output engine, so you typically get 136 horsepower. This one has 154 horsepower. The range is usually 137 miles, but due to advances in 17-inch alloys instead of 16, the range decreases. at 125 miles, but one of the good things about this advanced car is that it has the cruise control system with radar guidance and automatic steering, so it will practically do the driving for me, however, you know what it doesn't ?

I will use it because these systems are not that good at predicting the traffic ahead, they so often accelerate and brake which will use up valuable battery. Obviously I have the air conditioning on because it's an amazing upgrade that we want it to be. in real life and in real life you can have air conditioning. This little Honda has a 35.5 kilowatt hour battery which is about middle of the pack for

cars

here. Its weight of just over 1.5 tonnes is once again mid-pack. This advanced model costs a bit. a little more, it costs £29,000 and can save an average of £600 on a car.

Wow, that's on top of the government subsidy too. Now if you want to see how much you can save on a new car, click a banner appears there to download the car wow app. We can save an average of around £3000 on a new car. I'll tell you what, for a small car, this is pretty decent on the highway, it's comfortable, it's pretty quiet. Impressed, it's small but slightly luxurious. I love the interior design and it's great. Honda says it's not retro, but there's something retro about it. It's like someone designed this car in the 70s projecting what people would drive in the year 2020.

I love it. all the screens and the extravagant exterior mirrors that are not sloping are actually cameras. You've got little cameras sticking out of the side of the car because that reduces drag, it shows your range, so we'll see what effect that has today. We're just getting off the highway because a lot of people probably think that with these types of cars, small

electric

cars, you're going to drive them in the city primarily that's what they're for, so now we're going to go around the city. and we'll find out, when you're driving around town, how far each of these cars will go.

One of the best things about the Honda is that it has a single pedal mode, so all I have to do is press a button down here. and the car will give me additional regenerative braking so it actually slows the car down quite a bit when you lift off the accelerator so you don't have to use the brake on all the other cars that don't have that facility you can increase the braking with regeneration so that they decelerate quite strongly, but not in the same way as this. I love a pedal when you're in the city, it makes everything easier and every time I take off I'm getting energy back by putting it back on. on the battery and help maximize my range, the suspension is a little firm so when you go over rough surfaces you do move around a little bit but it's not bad to get ahead of this guy, oh the truck is pretty good actually It feels sporty. the engine is in the back so they can push you its rear wheel drive the steering is also pretty good one of the best things about the honda e is its closed turning circle which makes it very maneuverable and easy to park, i love it for that Well, that's the finished city section and this car averaged 3.7 miles per kilowatt hour, so Minnie, what did you do 3.8 miles per kilowatt hour in the minute?

How about the op 3.7 per kilowatt hour and the thicker 4.1 miles per kilowatt hour? How about the 208 4.2? miles per kilowatt hour and finally, then Zoe, so you're taking it, that's it. Wow, that's really impressive. Now I got into the mini e and it feels quite different from the Honda from the start. It feels heavier, although it is actually lighter. It's 365 kilos, I think it has to do with the weight of the controls, they're just thicker and more substantial, the card has a sportier stance on the road, it feels pretty solid, it's also faster, like you step on this and it just it totally takes off, it has a 184 horsepower engine and you can do 916 in 7.3 seconds while the honda e is eight seconds, but the difference is felt more than that when you actually drive them, it's quite nice In fact, it is as quiet as the Honda E.

It looks cool if you ask me, it's a bit over the top, it's more modern now that we are entering a road work zone so we have to slow down slightly which is helpful because this car doesn't have the largest battery, 32.6 kilowatts. battery, the range is 145 miles, which is better than the honda e, although the battery is a little smaller, that must have to do with the weight difference, it is 200 kilos, which is quite a lot. I don't know what honda is building his car with. Is it a leader in terms of price? This mini e starts at £24,000, although you can get higher spec versions and then go up to £30k more if you add options.

You already know what the minimum looks like, no matter which model you choose. Opt, although you always get a 184 horsepower motor and a 32.6 kilowatt battery, just get the entry level, it's pretty good there, yes it's very stylish, it looks a little lower than the honda e, so you don't get that. a good view, but the quality of the material is really very good, it is better than the honda, although I prefer the design of the honda, it is even more peculiar, which will be more interesting, will it be useful to surpass the honda e in terms of scope why?

We are very close, I mean the Volkswagen now and it feels like a downgrade from the executive class, which would have been the mini, to the economy class, which is this, let's see if we can accelerate, it is not as agile as the mini. No surprise, although its engine only has 82 horsepower, it takes this car 11.9 seconds to reach 60 miles per hour, so at least it's light. 1235 kilos tells you that although the mini feels better over bumps, that's the trade-off you see. for that sporty driving experience, this is louder, although I can hear the road more, I can hear the rest of the traffic more, it's definitely less relaxing, the range is okay, although it's supposed to be 159 miles, not bad, It has a battery capacity of 36.8 kilowatt hours.

It's the cheapest car here by quite a bit, starting from £20,000 however I think I paid the extra five grand for the mini because it's a bit nicer and faster. I think for city driving it would be fine, but for longer trips. I probably want something a little more substantial with more power, something like a mercedes mg gt, although it's not as green as that's something I've noticed about this car, the regenerative braking isn't as strong, I have it on its high setting Number four you don't notice it much when you take off, I mean it does slow down but it's not like the minimum and it's certainly not like the honda e when you're in one pedal mode.

Too bad, I really like that regeneration effect. It's just not good enough at this, oh actually, I go slower now, the regenerative braking is more noticeable, it's just that at higher speeds you don't feel it as much as on the mini or honda, and I take it all back, little volkswagen. for city work the regenerative braking is fine, will it really stop before I crash into Hungary? Yes well then start rolling slightly backwards, now I'm talking about the Peugeot E208 and it definitely feels more special sitting in it than the little Volkswagen up to 94 miles. It made it this far, so I bet the Honda e is near the end of its range.

Let's find out. Hi Honda, are you okay with the battery? I'm a little worried that it has four percent battery left and it says four miles of range. So I'm going to turn at the next intersection. I don't think I'm going to risk it even then. I think you might have problems. When is the next crossing? I think it's within about two miles. Well, I hope it is anyway, so, first of all, small. Honda, the nicest, coolest car here, has the worst range, but it will be interesting to see how far it can go in total, because even though it says there's four percent left, it's actually only four percent or is it that four percent plus a little more, guys.

The battery is down to one percent, so I'll relax in the slow lane. I shouldn't laugh. I have about 55 miles of range left. I think I can do more than that. She's a mile away. Will she do it? If you go off the highway, here comes the junction, I'm actually nervous about it, well here it goes, I wonder if it's getting close to a charging point. See you later little Honda, now that it's gone I can tell you about this peugeot e208 i. I really like the interior it's very cool it also has nice materials overall I also like the design of the dials it's a little quirky with this little steering wheel and some people won't like it I do it's quiet you know relaxing good seats the performance is definitely better than the vw up the motor drives the front wheels here again but it's 136 horsepower so i didn't do it 16 8.1 seconds also the braking mode the regen is stronger than the vw up i'm noticing it more here on the motorway which is good, it's not cheap although this car costs £30,000 which is quite a lot for a small Peugeot.

Now I should point out that this car is the top of the range version of the e208, so it has all the bells and whistles in it, you can get them cheaper. However, it does have a 50 kilowatt hour battery and that's good for a range according to Peugeot of 217 miles, but we'll find out exactly what it does so far. 111 miles and I'm sure the mini must be running out of power. Hello Minnie, what does your computer say? Well I just got a warning saying I have less than 15 miles of range, so what percentage of battery do you have left?

It's 14. on battery it feels like one percent per mile I'm losing right now Minnie you realize we're on a section of highway with no shoulder how does that make you feel? You know what I didn't realize until you pointed out I was too busy staring at my scope and worrying that you might end up being the most hated person in Britain today if your car stops on the motorway and you cause a huge traffic jam and everyone is sitting in his car sweating up to his balls. no pressure then no pressure and i will definitely quit and go.

I notice you've slowed down a little. Are you trying to save your skin by conserving energy? Maybe now you have also put the car in eco mode. I haven't done it yet because when I do I turn off the air conditioning and today is a hot day, that's a good point. This looks like your mini crossover, it certainly is. I think it's time to say goodbye to everyone. See you later, Minnie. Now I'm into the Corsa considering this is exactly the same car as the e208, it feels different, everything you see and touch is different to be fair but under the skin the engine the batteries and everything is the same no matter what.

However, this only feels a little. Firmer over bumps, I don't want to say sportier, but a little less smooth. Also, it's not that interesting inside. Quality-wise, it's more or less the same, but the design is more like a normal car. The Peugeot has more personality, although I think some people will. You don't get along with your wrists in the seating position in the Peugeot and if you're that type of person you should definitely take a look at this Corsa. It has the same 50 kilowatt hour battery. It has the same 136 horsepower engine. The Corsa starts at 26,000. pounds, the top of the line quarter costs just over 30 grand, however, while they have the same engine, the performance stats are slightly different for them, it's supposed to do nothing like 60 in 7.6 seconds, which is faster than the Peugeot, so it feels faster.

No it doesn't really feel practically identical, I think it might be because Vauxhall measures zero 60 while Peugeot doesn't measure anything up to 62 because they are French and it's obviously not at 100 kilometers per hour, there is also a bit of a difference in The weights are listed about 1530 kilos, while the Peugeot weighs about 50 kilos less, but once again I think that Peugeotparking and he didn't put the handbrake on so I could push it and it was very close to a charger so I blocked it so how many Mars did you make in the end? A total mileage of 154 miles.

Okay, not bad for the mini. I still have five miles left although I have no battery left, apparently fine. This is a good place. A beautiful day for an electric vehicle range test. Yeah. So I get to where there is a charging point, it's there and it's between two mini roundabouts so I can basically just keep going around and around and around until the car starts to die. It's going to be very, very boring and I could go on for quite a while because the car still says it has three miles of range left, so I'm going to do this for at least three miles.

Oh, now I have a mile left. Well I just had a text saying the vauxhall courser has finally

died

so call it now hello hey corsa what happened came very close to the panic charging point which I obnoxiously cut off and it still continued it went into reduced power mode the last three OR four miles driving through the business park, I managed to stop it about four or five feet from a charger and a couple of very nice people there helped me push it back so the cord could reach it, but even Now the power steering works.

It still runs even though the traction battery won't let it go anywhere so it worked well and in the end gave me 174 miles of what I had. I heard we beat the Peugeot by a few miles, not much but still It beat him even though they are the same car, I'm still going, of course, no mileage range, nothing left in the battery, so I'll make an offer. Goodbye and concentrate in case the car suddenly turns off, good luck to you, when will it stop? Although I hope it doesn't last another 20 miles, my neck hurts, doing this is taking forever, except now it's 228 miles.

I'm so tempted to go further oh, I'm going to risk taking a right up here, will this be my downfall? oh oh, I'm going to turn around, I need to turn around, the car is dying, typical, this is so typical, can I do it? over here oh no oh it's dying the car is dying it's dying it's dying it's dying why did I do that? I was so close to the plumbing chargers. That was very interesting. The car was actually running fine. It had limited power but still worked. okay and then all of a sudden it lost all power and started to slide and then when I tried to turn around and stopped for a second the car took the opportunity to shut off so it gave me power steering and was moving forward but a time I stopped, that's right, that's a lot, you stopped, you're safe now, we're not going any further, we made it safely, I'm just going to try turning it off and on again, checking the electrical system, it's not even . let me turn it off, I'm in neutral, press the brake and I start at limited performance, come on, no, we're going to drive fine, let's try to lock the battery now in standby mode.

Did I just lock myself in the damn car? Please open the vehicle controls. progress in saving battery, the system will automatically turn off to reduce the consumption of the car's battery, no, no, just made this game about this car, in the end it

drove

229 miles, that's really impressive considering how much it costs, the scope is actually very good, hello, yes. Basically I have an electric car. I've been filming how far I can drive it. I come from London, oh God, and it just stopped here. Then, what are you going to do? Let's see if it works and yes. works.

I'm going to see if you'll let us just put it on your drive and put a little load on it. There is no charging point. All you need is a three-prong plug. The phone that lives here has a point. in this garage, keep going, oh, she's running, look at that kind of symbolic gesture, run, people do, hello, hello, you're right, I know there's a charging point there, but I don't have power, but I think so I could probably put in a little. a little bit of charging will allow me to drive it again and then I can get to that charging point and then we can get home oh yeah man has an ah I'm not sure if you can use an extension cord with an electric car like that we do it anyway this guy has all the clues an absolute legend you're lucky he's doing this because it's a damn french car what do you have? you have a Japanese one oh yeah, do you know what car did the The worst in our test was a Japanese car, it was a Honda, so you can't make fun of the French car because the French car won today, here we go, which can get in there.

I hope it doesn't surprise me. Go now. I have to leave it here for a while and hope no one wants to go up this road, so what exactly happened when the Honda was the first to go down driving 113 miles, which is 90 of its 125 mile range? Next was the mini which did 154. miles which is 106 of its claimed range of 145 miles, the peugeot did 161 on Mars which was 74 of its claimed range of 217 miles, the volkswagen did 162 miles which is 102 Of its claimed range of 159 miles, the Vauxhall managed 174 miles, which is 83 of its claimed range of 209 miles, and finally the Renault did 229 miles, which is 96 of its claimed range of 238 miles, okay, we're done with the section. from the city, it's overheated, yeah, okay, let's do all that again because my gopro

died

and this little honda averaged 3.7 miles per kilowatt hour, what did the corsa do? 4.1 miles per kilowatt hour and finally the zoe, yeah, what I'm gonna do, the only thing it's gonna do is when you pick up the radio, I don't know if you saw it, but you had your mask on, no.

I did not see that