What we learned in the first week with the Sealion 7

A week in and the car has stopped being a novelty and started being a home. Here is what surprised us, good and bad, before we even reached the coast.

Efficiency is a mood

On flat French motorways at a steady 70 we saw 3.6 miles per kWh. Push it to 80 and that dropped to 3.0 fast. Wind matters more than hills over a long day.

The menu we wish we’d found sooner

Buried three taps deep is a one pedal driving mode that changed how the whole trip felt. Once we turned it on we barely touched the brake pedal for a thousand miles.

The best feature on any car is the one you did not know you needed.

More real numbers, leg by leg, are on The Car page.