The all things EV chat thread

[jim8flog]

Does anyone have the Honda E:NY1 ?

Also what suggestions to look at home charging.

I'm with Octopus, if that helps.

Ta

I have OHME charger and I am with Octopus on Inteligent Go.
It does not limit you to overnight charging as Octopus lets OHME know when the you can charge according to grid demand.

May work with other chargers as well.

I know OHME users have a dedicated forum on the web worth checking for others.

 

[doublebogey7]

Thanks. Helpful.

I was also wanted to know if Octopus arrange the installation of the charger and if not where to look for info about installations.

Octopus will if you so wish arrange installation of a charger, though any competent electrician should be able to do. Cheapest tariff with Octopus is inteligent go, which gives 6 hrs at 7.5p now, though peak rate is a kittle mor3 than the variable rate, so make sure you will be charging often enough to make it economical

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Thanks. Helpful.

I was also wanted to know if Octopus arrange the installation of the charger and if not where to look for info about installations.

I had Octopus install my chargepoint, an Ohme Home Pro. They put a new consumer unit for the charge point, independant of the main consumer unit. They are very exact when it comes to the regs, which isn't a bad thing I suppose going forward. For example, my charge point is down the garden mounted on my garage wall. I had to dig the trench for the cable, 450 deep and in a twin wall ducting or 600mm deep for armoured cable.( as thats what the regs say)
I stuck to 450 deep and ran twin wall ducting for them to run the cable.
I am on Octopus Versatile, and having added up the whole costs, to change to Octo Go would have been more expensive over the everyday 24 hrs. I let my Ohme charge point control the charging of the van

 

[clubchamp98]

Octopus will if you so wish arrange installation of a charger, though any competent electrician should be able to do. Cheapest tariff with Octopus is inteligent go, which gives 6 hrs at 7.5p now, though peak rate is a kittle mor3 than the variable rate, so make sure you will be charging often enough to make it economical

They have to be register .
Any spark can’t just do it.

 

[Fade and Die]

They have to be register .
Any spark can’t just do it.

Any Electrician that is part of a competent person’s scheme can do it. (NIC, Elecsa or Napit) which is probably about 70% of the sparks in England.

 

[Oddsocks]

Confession: this new i3 with a decent range is bloody tempting, especially if the tourer gets launched quickly!

 

[larmen]

Confession: this new i3 with a decent range is bloody tempting, especially if the tourer gets launched quickly!

I understand that it fits in their naming convention as this is their 3 series equivalent, right?
But the i3 name was used for a quirky little EV, they can't just reuse it like that. They are nearly as bad as Ford who used iconic names for bland EVs now.
Saying that, the Ford Explorer is on my short list.

 

[Taz]

Considering chopping in one of our hybrids for a full electric (CH-R and HRV)

The Honde E:NY1 would be one possibilty, what other options should we consider ?

Quick update, Went in for another test drive of the Honda.
I like the HRV so although the ride was slightly inferior to mine. It wouldn't have put me off buying one.

Sadly no new units and Honda are withdrawing from the EV market and the offer ( 50% off and 0% finance meant the remaining 11K units flew out the door) so only option was to buy pre-owned, which doesn't make sense.

Will have a look at the Toyota offerings at some stage .