Grey or the black. They both look ace.
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Grey.
Engadget did a great video review of the ‘e’ (the test was in Valencia, although the test car had UK plates on!) - https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-27-honda-e-first-drive.html
I do like the door ‘mirrors’ design though. It could be a contender for my weekly commute.
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I think Grey… or the Blue 
I’m sure the earlier renders showed it less dark, have to see what it’s like in person. I always liked the Yas Marina and Santorini but I’ve never owned a blue car. Usually go for black.
The yellow one looks like a Fisher Price Dodge Challenger
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I recently just picked up a new MG 3, 69 plate from my local MG dealer in Horsham. Before I chose the hot hatch, I was looking at their ZS EV as I could get it with the government grant and a PX deal where I could scrap my old car and get like 4k knocked off the price. I didn’t end up going for it in the end as I needed a work horse, and I’d be scared to take it long distances. I also don’t think my parents would be too happy wanting a charger point installed at home, and to get one installed it was quite expensive. So I settled on the ol’ reliable petrol hot hatch. Once Tesla drop in price, and electric becomes a bit more main stream I may rethink and go for an electric car as the thought of one excites me (as a tech head, especially the Teslas)
It will look cleaner for longer if you go blue 
I wish I had somewhere to charge one.
Would love the Mini Electric for commuting, maybe when I don’t live in an apartment I’ll look in to getting one.
Nowhere to charge them here and I doubt it there could ever be where I live.
That is a cute car though.
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Do you not have any petrol stations near you either?
Shell and BP are both gradually expanding their network with charge points.
What is your average weekly mileage ?
Not with any charge points, no.
The nearest is an hours walk and to be fair, is a fast charging one, but I’d have to go and just sit in my car for at least 15 minutes a day to charge it.
I’d get 2 and a half days of commuting out of the Mini before the battery is empty, according to their website. And that’s at my average speed (which on my commute, despite being mostly motorways, is about 25mph) and not factoring in temperature.
If there were charge points at work, I’d definitely consider it, but unfortunately there aren’t.
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Is it a “fast” charger or do you mean Rapid.
Rapid chargers deliver at a very fast rate, typically 50Kw/h.
At this time of the year a 15 minute stop
On a Rapid charger, fine for a coffee etc, would provide my car with an additional 50 miles.
Ultra rapid 150Kw/h chargers are being rolled out across the country now so the issues associated with the scarcity in some areas of chargers will be relieved considerably.
Fair points. Me and my partner both don’t have a problem spending half hour to let it charge up a decent amount for free (maybe that’s because we’re both tight 
).
Obviously everyone’s location is different but places to charge are certainly growing, it’s worth checking every few months. We live in a relatively small town and ChargePlace Scotland installed two points last year meaning just a 10 minute walk and I have access to 22kw charger which is great. I’m also grateful to work right next to the local council head office which has rapids for the public to use.
Worth pointing out, for those that don’t know, that 22Kw chargers are not able to deliver 22Kw to every car. Many can only accept 7.6Kw tops if the standard Type 2 cable is being used.
Some cars are now being manufactured to enable around 11Kw.
Rapid charging requires a complementary CCS socket on the car, then the charger’s cable is simply plugged in to gain the very fast rates.
Interesting, I did not know this regarding topping out at 7.6Kw. Thanks for letting me know 
I don’t really know the term, I just know it was described as “Ultra Fast”, so it probably is a rapid one.
This is the list of points on the street I know they’re on according to Zap Map, but I only recall seeing two charge points.
4 x 7kW 32A Type 2 Mennekes
1 x 43kW 63A Type 2 Mennekes
1 x 50kW 125A JEVS (CHAdeMO)
1 x 50kW 125A CCS (Combo)
I think this is going to be a big issue for some people, until they’re a bit more integrated with daily life (it’s getting there, however). Given my current living situation, if I could go to the gym, the supermarket, to work and various other activities and just “top up” when I needed to while there and cause little to no inconvenience then I’d probably already have one.
Also worth checking the version of the car too.
Like the Renault Zoe ZE40 has 22kW, and accepts 43kW for Q90 variant in the 2017 facelift.
However the Renault Zoe you can buy today ZE50 has CCS so its 22kW, doesn’t do 43kW, but 50kW (max) via CCS.
Same goes with CCS, most new cars should really be doing 100kW but like the brand new Zoe its capped at 50kW.
There’s only a handful atm that can do over 100kW via CCS.
Porsche are “Taycan” the piss with 270kW.
There are still a lot of people unsure as to how environmentally friendly electric cars actually are. How the batteries are produced and also disposed of is still a cause of concern for some people.
Edit: Found a video from last year by the BBC
This will explain the differences.
In fact the 50Kw and 40Kw is the only Rapid the other is a fast charger.