An EV enthusiast community
The Watt Garage
News, honest reviews and road-trip stories from people who actually drive electric — plus the meetups where we compare notes in person.
Free to join. Whatever you drive, and whether or not you drive one yet.
We are a community of electric-vehicle enthusiasts. We follow the industry because we find it genuinely interesting, we review cars as owners rather than as press-launch guests, and we get together in car parks on cold Saturday mornings because that turns out to be the best way to learn anything.
Everything here is written by members, for members. No hype, no scorn, and no pretending a car is perfect because we like it.
What you'll find here
Three reasons people join
News worth reading
What is actually happening across the EV world — models, charging networks, software updates — written plainly and without the breathlessness.
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Reviews by owners
Long-term impressions from people who live with the car, pay for the tyres and put the child seat in. Balanced, and never a press release.
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People to ask
Interest groups, meetups and drives. The fastest way to get a straight answer about a car is to stand next to somebody who owns one.
See what's on →Fresh from the community
Latest news and reviews
Featured reviews
Two we would point a new member at
Enthusiast opinion, written by people who have lived with the cars rather than borrowed them for an afternoon.
Two years with a Tesla Model 3 as the family car
Not a launch review. Two years, two children, one dog and a lot of motorway — what it is genuinely good at, and the things you get used to.
Read the review →Ioniq 5 or EV6? Two cars, one platform, two personalities
The question members ask most. Two good cars, honestly different — and why picking with your eyes is not a cop-out.
Read the comparison →Meet the community
Coming up
Find your corner
Interest groups
State-of-health measurement, warranty practice, and what happens to a pack after the vehicle — reuse, repurposing and recycling routes.
Explore →Failure modes, spares, field data and the reliability benchmarks members publish to each other.
Explore →Day-to-day operation of public charging networks: uptime, field maintenance, fault triage and the shared operational metrics members report against.
Explore →Protocol versions, conformance and the interoperability problems members hit in the field. Feeds the community's standards positions.
Explore →What vehicles and chargers report, who may see it, and the common data model members are converging on.
Explore →Charging away from the public network: depots, workplaces and homes, and the metering and reimbursement questions that follow.
Explore →Everyone welcome
Come and join in
Membership is free. You get the newsletter, the interest groups, and an invitation to every meetup we run — whatever you drive, and whether or not you drive one yet.