As some Tesla owners can attest, their battery has either a tiny or no buffer at all.
Yes, agreed. Presumably "whole battery" available in Tesla, hence need to choose to charge to, say, 90% daily and then adjust to 100% "for trips" ... and risk that Punters don't understand and charge to 100% all the time, or charge to 100% and "leave it there".
Probably made more sense when batteries were a lot smaller, better to have an "unseen" buffer instead.
240v x 32a for 7 hours should net 188 miles of range
My mistake, I thought i-Pace could not charge at 240v x 32a
if a dollar or two is more than your budget can support
That's not the whole story though ...
Electricity in UK is 50% discount at off-peak so a) not exactly nothing

and b) as an eco-warrior I would prefer to accomodate the power companies who are offering me that price to try to use their off-peak background load, rather than charging at peak times and contributing to their scheduling problems.
Can't speak of Jag, but on Tesla I can set a Schedule Charge Time at (each) location, so my car will start charging at midnight if I park it at home so, if I need more juice than that, I have to remember to override the scheduled timer (or not use it at all of course ...) and chances are I will forget.
Normal people who can afford $60k+ cars, do not worry about paying $1 to $5 dollars extra for plugging in early for a special trip
We have high tax on Fuel (like most of world outside USA) so the price saving using Electric is dramatic. Comparing price of Petrol/Diesel here to electricity means that on UK off-peak electricity I get around 200 miles-per-gallon equivalent. So you are right, it makes very little difference to me (compared to the Fossil Fuel price I was used to), if I charge a bit more/less at Peak/Off-peak. Of course Tesla owners will tell you that the main reason they bought the car was for "Free Supercharging", and £100K for the car to get $600 a year for Gas is crazy-talk. But we all love a bargain

But my purcashe was as much for Eco Early Adopter as it was for performance or anything else.
The i-Pace has Departure Charging according to JLR. So you plug it in when you get home, and it starts charging based on your END OF SUPER-OFFPEAK time schedule.
Neat; hadn't heard that. Most of the 3rd party APPs I use don't provide a "charge ready for departure time" in case there is a power cut and they will be sued or whatever as a consequence. Nuts. I'd be happy to take that risk, it would be a very rare thing to get caught out
Did Tesla ever get that corrected yet?
Presume you are referring to Departure Charging? Definitely not got that. Scheduled Charging starts at appointed time (start of my off-peak period in my case). It is smart enough to decide that if I come home a few hours after that time that it should still start charging anyway, rather than "do nothing until tomorrow night :frown2

so that part is OK.
so I assume ... can do it by now.
No telling what might arrive over the airwaves at the next update of course, but there are plenty of "Why haven't they build my [INSERT KILLED FEATURE HERE] yet", which is purely a consequence of the whole OTA ability creating an expectation in the consumer
Personally I'm not exactly sold on OTA. All the freebie cool stuff I've received in 2 years is a nice bonus of course ...
... but lets say the car updates tonight. Tomorrow my wife jumps in the car and reads the Update Notes (such as it is) on the Screen. She sets off ...
... later I jump in the car. No update notes for me, in fact no notification that it has changed. (In practice I would have go a notification on my phone, but that may not be the case for all the car's drivers of course). SO the first I know of a change of behaviour is when it occurs as I'm driving along ...
If I had to take the car to the shop to get here update then maybe ... MAYBE?? :nerd: ... the Support Person would tell me about anything important that I should know about. and MAYBE? I'd tell my wife ...
Taht said, some decent YouTube "training videos" from Tesla at each OTA release would do the trick ...
My Phone changing willy-nilly is at worst annoying. A car doing that ... I'm not so sure ...
But its a 1st World Problem for sure.
And in areas where most EVs are sold, there are a large number of DCFCs although normally only 50kW.
We have loads nearby too. (I looked on Plugshare recently and was really surprised), But 90% of them are one-pump sites so cannot be sure if will be free when you get there. And all have absolutely rubbish maintenance as I mentioned earlier. That's probably because government handed out money for people to install these things, originally, so no incentive to actually make them work

Hopefully the whole "Have a nice day" service attitude in USA means that you have better service FULL STOP
The i-Pace is programmed at this point at 100kW max. But an engineer stated they can change that up to 120kW through software should 120kW charging become available.
I don't think this stuff is as big a deal as many folk seem to think. Including the 800volt 400KW or whatever Porsche stuff.
Yes it definitely needs to be faster than 32 AMP

and indeed 100 kW is probably the minimum.
If you are driving coast to coast and have multiple charges to do speed will be nice. But if you just need "enough to get home" I really really doubt that the difference is important. I do that sort of charging quite often (i.e. when my out-and-back day trip exceeds my max 220 mile range by a bit) It would be very rare for e to need more than 80 miles extra and that would take 15 minutes; by the time I've walked to the services and had a pee, and maybe got a coffee or a chocolate bar, and walked back I've used up most/all the 15 minutes. If it was 7 minutes I would still go have a pee and get a coffee .. and often I don't need as much as 80 miles extra.
If the charge happened in 1 minute then, yeah, I'd skip the pee and coffee

but I'd have still used up 5 minutes just getting off the highway and parking up, and then getting back onto the highway ... and if there isn't a suitable rapid charger right-on-my-route I have the extra detour-time to divert to its location (until they are on every street corner, like Fossil Pumps

) so all in all dramatically faster isn't really a great practical help IMHO
All EVs currently are inferior for interstate, anywhere, anytime travel
Agreed. We still have an ICE on the driveway ... although it is a small hatchback and more often used for pubic car parks (bays here are small and Tesla is huge) rather than long distance - I take the Tesla for long distance out of principle - I like to think I'm doing my bit for the planet.