Electric cars

I'd say it depends on how close you live to a tesla supercharger. With a tesla membership (£9.99 a month) charging during off peak hours can be as low as 27p kW. 4 miles on average per kW so less than 7p a mile. Through the summer I've been getting just under 5 miles per kW. Through winter I'm expecting around 3 miles.
 
mexico1970 said:
www.bbc.co.uk

EV drivers could face new tax in Budget

The BBC understands there have been "conversations" within government about the possibility of a new levy on EVs.
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Wankers, not that it effects me like. You can't bang on about net zero and on the other hand try to tax EVs more, innovate and find a new way to generate tax income instead of trying to keep the gravy train going from fuel duty.
 
bluegray said:
I'd say it depends on how close you live to a tesla supercharger. With a tesla membership (£9.99 a month) charging during off peak hours can be as low as 27p kW. 4 miles on average per kW so less than 7p a mile. Through the summer I've been getting just under 5 miles per kW. Through winter I'm expecting around 3 miles.
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Can all EVs use the Tesla superchargers or do you have to buy a car made by a company owned by an utter **** of a human?
Quick calculation on fuel prices alone: 12,000 miles in my petrol self-charging hybrid is £1,200 at 10p a mile (almost exactly 60 mpg over the four years I've owned it).
£12,000 miles at 7p/mile is £840, plus a tenner a month for Tesla membership is £960. Is saving £240 a year worth the hassle of restricted charging times and higher purchase prices? And do reduced service costs compensate?
Finally, what is the depreciation of RVs compared to others. For example I know the Jag I-Pace is a fantastic car but has horrendous depreciation.
 
East Level 2 said:
Can all EVs use the Tesla superchargers or do you have to buy a car made by a company owned by an utter **** of a human?
Quick calculation on fuel prices alone: 12,000 miles in my petrol self-charging hybrid is £1,200 at 10p a mile (almost exactly 60 mpg over the four years I've owned it).
£12,000 miles at 7p/mile is £840, plus a tenner a month for Tesla membership is £960. Is saving £240 a year worth the hassle of restricted charging times and higher purchase prices? And do reduced service costs compensate?
Finally, what is the depreciation of RVs compared to others. For example I know the Jag I-Pace is a fantastic car but has horrendous depreciation.
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No, all EV’s cannot use Tesla chargers. There’s about 45 around the country they can use.
However, if you get a home charger, your 12,000 miles would cost you £336 at the current overnight rate of 7p KW.
 
Centurions said:
Have any of you folks ever owned an electric car without the option of home charging? Is it viable?
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I did it for six months before I got my home charger. It was ok for me as I got subsidised charging rates at work. If it was just charging publicly, it negates one of the big benefits of getting an EV in the first place, which is the reduction in running costs.
 
Got the MG HS trophy hybrid on a lease through work in Feb.

Has a 75 mile electric range (although real world it's less)

Using my Home Charger on an EV tariff, it costs me £1.60ish to charge from 0 to 75 miles and that'll last me a few days on a normal working week. Unless I'm on a longer run, I almost exclusively run it in EV mode. I think I've put £20 petrol in it about 4 or 5 times since February.

It's my first automatic and my first foray into "electric" motoring. I most definitely won't be going back. The car is much better in EV mode and now I've tried it and got my head round the charging, I'm sorry I didn't go for a full EV.

My sister has just got a full EV Renault Scenic and has done Manchester to Hereford and back with a bit of running around in between on a single full charge!
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
No, all EV’s cannot use Tesla chargers. There’s about 45 around the country they can use.
However, if you get a home charger, your 12,000 miles would cost you £336 at the current overnight rate of 7p KW.
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I live in a flat without a designated parking space so I'd be reliant on public chargers. Looks like I'll be sticking to hybrids and diesels.
 
Centurions said:
Have any of you folks ever owned an electric car without the option of home charging? Is it viable?
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Watched a few videos of ev owners who dont charge at home. Think it is viable obviously not as cheap as charging at home but if you shop around you can get it cheap deals. Doing things like being with octopus energy at home, getting Monthly subscriptions to the likes of bp pulse and signing up to the tesla app. I was surprised how many tesla chargers are open to non Tesla cars. plus aren't people like ford/ vauxhall offering free charging for a year or something.



had mine just over a month and I love it.
 
Scottyboi said:
Wankers, not that it effects me like. You can't bang on about net zero and on the other hand try to tax EVs more, innovate and find a new way to generate tax income instead of trying to keep the gravy train going from fuel duty.
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Remember buy diesel it’s great, then fuckimg hike the tax! Utter twats, if they do this then EVs will crash, I’ll sell ours, not that any fucker would buy it, they even going to tax hybrid as well, nearly ever fucking thing these days is and with the new EU rules you’ve basically no choice hybrid or EV.
How the fuck are they going to monitor it? ULEZ cameras, well Burnham needs to use them for something.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Remember buy diesel it’s great, then fuckimg hike the tax! Utter twats, if they do this then EVs will crash, I’ll sell ours, not that any fucker would buy it, they even going to tax hybrid as well, nearly ever fucking thing these days is and with the new EU rules you’ve basically no choice hybrid or EV.
How the fuck are they going to monitor it? ULEZ cameras, well Burnham needs to use them for something.
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Years ago successive governments had huge tax income from fuel duty, tobacco duty and alcohol duty. Win. win. And win.

Now people are switching to electric cars, vapes and not drinking where will the tax shortfall come from?

Forcing people into EV's and then taxing them was always going to happen. Same with price hikes for charging.

They have been sold to us as a cleaner and cheaper way of travelling. That's beginning to turn out to be a massive lie.
 
BimboBob said:
Years ago successive governments had huge tax income from fuel duty, tobacco duty and alcohol duty. Win. win. And win.

Now people are switching to electric cars, vapes and not drinking where will the tax shortfall come from?

Forcing people into EV's and then taxing them was always going to happen. Same with price hikes for charging.

They have been sold to us as a cleaner and cheaper way of travelling. That's beginning to turn out to be a massive lie.
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Wouldn’t bother me itf it was actually all used for the roads but it isn’t, the fucking whole thing is one big con.
 
rowarta said:
supposed to be less than £20k with 160 mile range.

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I've been keeping an eye on that as it would suit us once I'd convinced the wife that range anxiety doesn't really apply to us. Even rarer than rocking horse poo do we travel over 100 mile round trip. Most are 2 to 5 miles (yes, round trip). I like the sliding rear seats as it'll be easier to get the wheelchair in.

I also like the look of the VW ID.Every1 but that's not due until 2027, they're "talking" £17,000 starting price with similar range.
 
Centurions said:
I've been keeping an eye on that as it would suit us once I'd convinced the wife that range anxiety doesn't really apply to us. Even rarer than rocking horse poo do we travel over 100 mile round trip. Most are 2 to 5 miles (yes, round trip). I like the sliding rear seats as it'll be easier to get the wheelchair in.

I also like the look of the VW ID.Every1 but that's not due until 2027, they're "talking" £17,000 starting price with similar range.
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We got a vauxhall Mokka just for that we only really need to charge up over night once a week, most journeys are 2-5 miles, costs us £20 a month with octopus.
 
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