Sorry Mike, can't help, but please keep us updated as to how you get on, it's a journey most of us will make in the future, like it or not, so I'm sure there will be a lot of interest!
thanks Dave, seems like the right time to do it. I’m sure it will be effortless once I get use to the need to charge as required.
I didn’t cut any corners, it’s not a Renault Zoe
There will be upsides and downsides, you can be a balanced source of information, we can't rely on adverts or people with an agenda, we need to hear from real life users of the vehicles. I suspect that for many people they will be better than ICE vehicles, but not everybody.
My wife’s boss purchased the Audi E-tron for approximately £92k. Great looking suv but has to take the works van to Cornwall as he won’t get there on a full charge. We have the Lexus CT200h self charging, I know it’s not a full EV but at present I’m not convinced.
We had two nissan leafs over 4 years which was a great car and so easy to drive. However gone back to petrol car last year as the price of EV's is taking the pee. Now we've had almost 12 months without the leaf the fuel bill is considerably cheaper than what we were paying in electric costs charging at home.
I have an EV with a Hypervolt 7kw charger at home and a myenergi zappi 7kw charger at work. You can get a grant of £350 towards installation. I‘m on OVO Drive tariff. It doesn’t have the very low rate for a few hours that octopus has but it’s normal rate is lower than octopus and and as I do most of my charging at work, this works better than me. Also octopuses customer service was very flakey when I asked them about smart meter installation.
Don’t know if anyone saw the recent Guy Martin tv program about EV’s where he drove to John O’ Groats.
Half the charging stations he tried weren’t working and the costs of recharging were £204 whereas if he’d done the trip in a diesel vehicle it would have cost £140 in fuel.
Think I’ll be holding onto my dirty diesel for as long as I possibly can.
Have you noticed recently that Toyota are now pushing commercials through about their Hydrogen cell vehicles. I still think this is the way long term, not EV.
Unless there’s some massive technological developments I can’t see EV’s happening on a large scale for a very very very long time.
Those figures sound ridiculous. Lands end to John O’ groats is 840 miles. The range on my EV is about 280 miles so I’d need three full charges. The battery is a 106kw.
At home using my 7kw charger costs me 14.8p per kW therefore two full charges would cost £48.00, even using a 50kw supermarket charge station it’s 30p per kw so your still only looking at £96 for the trip.
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Dunno Deaky, that’s the figures they gave on the tv program, it looked to me as if he was using charging stations in motorway service areas. Maybe it’s the same as with everything else at an MSA, twice the price.
LEJOG is more like 850 miles. Do you really get the advertised range tho'. They might do that a 20mph around town, but with 'normal' driving, most say it's much less.
As for charging costs, on the motorway, you'll get your pants pulled down, just like you do in an ICE vehicle. That's where they become expensive and invonvenient. We could make one work to replace our old runabout Polo, but then we have other cars for other journeys.
As for charging costs, on the motorway, you'll get your pants pulled down, just like you do in an ICE vehicle. That's where they become expensive and invonvenient. We could make one work to replace our old runabout Polo, but then we have other cars for other journeys.
Honestly can't see how you've managed this. Are you sure it wasn't just because there was a pandemic and you didn't do as many miles? Our Leaf costs very little to run. e.g. a "full tank" i.e. 20kwh (not running the battery down very low) gets about 80-90 miles. At about 15p per kwh that's £3 or so. So about 3.75p per mile. A petrol car would need to be doing about 150mpg to be cheaper to run.
never trust anything you read on the internet
840 miles doing 50mpg in our 1.2 petrol Polo, fuel at £1.30 per litre would cost £100. Now can you honestly say you get 280miles out of a full charge on the motorway? Are we comparing like with like cars? If we were to go in the 2.0 diesel Tig, we'd be looking at £110 for the same trip, or £150 in the van.
If you only look at extreme examples like this then that's where EVs aren't as good yet. But most people's day to day usage of a car doesn't include driving the entire length of the country, or indeed usually any other round trips longer than the range that a home charge will get them. There's some really curious psychology going on with people's opposition to EVs.
Octopus Go here and the Anderson charger. Works brilliantly, looks nice, no messy wires and made in the UK
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