EV and advice from any users please!

CatmanV2

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Harry said:
This thread has been going on for donkeys’ years now. Could someone correct the spelling of the heading to EV Advice…., please. It hurts my eyes every time I see it.
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Well, you can try reading it as an instruction, as opposed to a request? ;)

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mjheathcote

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rockits said:
Snap and great tariff. Just changed over recently and added the iPace last night for its first 7.5p charge. Makes a huge difference from the 30p ish rate before on the old supplier. Even on the lower mileage we do it makes a big difference. I play football once a week and it costs £7.50 to play and another £7.50 to get there in an E55K or the like. In the iPace it is about 70p @ 7.5p per Kwh.

So a full tank of juice giving about 220 miles is less than £7. For a 400bhp twin motor 4WD sub-5 second 0-60 car that is comfortable, well equipped and decent to drive also look at I think it has been a good move for us.

Wouldn't have wanted to have bought a new one at new prices though!
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Taken nearly a week, but Audi have sorted out their servers and the Mrs car is now plugged into the matrix, with Octopus taking control of the charging.
First overnight charge successfully completed with 100% charge at 7.5p a kwh.
Okay only 10kwh being a hybrid (optimistically the audi app is saying 40 mile range, more like 30), but we only need to export 5kwh today via solar (easily acheived even over winter most days) with Octopus paying us 15p a kwh, and the 30 miles of driving is paid for.
That 30 miles using petrol would be easily £5, which adds up to approximately a £1,000 a year saving on the average yearly usage.
Would be more if a full EV.
I can really see the financial sense of hybrid/EV if you can make it work charging, for a daily driver only of course!
 
philw696

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PM Sunak announcing the ban on new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 has been put back to 2035, well there's a suprise! Watch it get moved again, hopefully.
 
safrane

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Interesting listening to responses to this.

There is nothing stopping people buying electric or heatpumps etc in advance of this revised dateline, what industry needs to do is make it more attractive rather than having your hand forced.
 
mjheathcote

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safrane said:
Interesting listening to responses to this.

There is nothing stopping people buying electric or heatpumps etc in advance of this revised dateline, what industry needs to do is make it more attractive rather than having your hand forced.
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Agreed.
We currently pay 7.5p/kwh overnight to charge the Mrs Hybrid. That is insainly cheap compared to any ICE car. If you can make it work without public charging it is a no brainer.
This evening Octopus has decided they will charge the car between 11pm and 3am. That is actually half an hour earlier than the normal cheap rate 11:30pm to 5:30am, so we are getting an extra 30 minutes for the whole house being run at 25% of the normal cost.
 
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