The all things EV chat thread
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harpo_72
Journeyman Pro
I looked into EV BIK advantage but given our Fiesta is 7 yes old cost £0 tax and has just reached 40k miles … the wife doesn’t see the point in releasing funds from the business to pay given it will incur a steady £300-£600 monthly cost (although tax deductible) . So we are sitting tight !
Bit boring though
but I cannot see us saving more than we are currently
Bit boring though
but I cannot see us saving more than we are currently
Matty6
Challenge Tour Pro
Any etron suv owners on here? Don’t need a significant amount of range, so seems to fit the bill.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Havnt driven the Etron but have my mates VW iD4 about the same size .
Jeez what a machine it’s awesome and worth a look.
PhilTheFragger
Provider of Entertainment for the Golfing Gods 🙄
Drove a Hyundai Ioniq 5 the other day
Wow just Wow
Wow just Wow
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
bobmac
Major Champion
Chargers switched off during peak hours, motorways/A roads/fast chargers will NOT be turned off.
Besides, who on earth wants to charge their car at peak rate?
If everyone changed to electric cars overnight, and all charged their cars at peak rate, then yes, the national grid would struggle.
But that's not going to happen.
The grid's capacity will grow as electric car numbers grow
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
bobmac
Major Champion
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Seeing as access to charging is one of the major obstacles that many people have it seems to be relevant.
And to answer Bob's question...someone who is low on charge and needs to plug in now needs to do it now regardless of what time of day it is.
Jamesbrown
Head Pro
Think this will replace my e208. If the GT version is well priced anyway.
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
I'm sure what will more likely happen rather than this scaremongering is that chargers will be programmed to start later unless you override them
I have mine set up like this. It won't draw before 01:30 unless I override it
bobmac
Major Champion
I repeat...
If everyone changed to electric cars overnight, and all charged their cars at peak rate, then yes, the national grid would struggle.
This will not happen as
1. The whole country will not change to EVs tomorrow
2. Every EV driver will not charge their car at peak rate
3. The grid will continue to expand it's usage of renewable energy over the next decade as it is the cheapest, cleanest and sustainable source of energy available.
- The cost of renewable technologies like wind and solar is falling significantly, according to a new report.
- This is fuelling the rise of renewables as the world’s cheapest source of energy.
- The cost of large-scale solar projects has plunged 85% in a decade.
- Retiring costly coal plants would also cut around three gigatonnes of CO2 a year.
4. Less fossil fuels burned
5. Cleaner air for future generations of children to breathe.
6. Slow down climate change
And as someone once said, Wow, just wow, fun to drive
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
No argument to that.
The question was Who on earth wants to charge their car at peak rate?
The answer stands.
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
I'm surprised this has been brought up, but then again perhap's I'm not..Power supply cut through fire
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Be very interested to see the affect of this on my energy deal come November
ATM I pay 14p (5.5 at night) the fixed rates for 2 years (only one that came up for octopus on their site) was 24p .. that would be awful... However when you ask their current price for the go tariff (for the car) it's 15 and 5.5 which wouldn't be as bad but still a rise
It doesn't let on the gas price as much (2.5 ATM I think) however if Goes too high I'll stick the heat pumps on
It's almost like a perfect storm of the b word , covid and now just bad luck is stuffing our nation
bobmac
Major Champion
What's that supposed to mean?
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
I have to admit I hadn't seen that fire. It's worrying for sure
We as a nation rely too much on others we need to invest in our own power plants
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
I saw this earlier in the week and saw we were firing up a mothballed coal fired power station. That’s disappointing. We need to build nuclear power stations and pronto. And not rely on the Chinese or the French to do it for us.
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
The head of octopus energy pretty much said the same. Said the lack of investment by the government in green energy will cost us long term
Standard tho. First thing to be cut is public services , think of all the jobs that could be created
