Joining the electric car club

mjheathcote

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Yesterday evening was a perfect example of using the wife's plug in hybrid for local running around.
It was fully charged, and being sad I could look at exactly the amount of charge it took to fully charge the battery the night before (empty to full) via the smart plug. So a true value before losses.
The round trip journey was 24 miles, in the dark, cold, cabin heating at 20 degree C. Up hill and down dale, and it just made it home all fully on EV mode. This was therefore a true typical trip, not one all on the flat (hills make a big difference, you use far more going up than the regeneration going down! and we have a lot of hills), with no lights or cabin heating.
This equated to 2.44 miles per Kwh, or 3p a mile or the equivalent of 217 mpg at current local petrol prices.
For us, the hybrid combination works very well, and so would a full EV if within range of home.
 

RodTungsten

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I worked for Europecar PT for a number of years and they don't buy all of their stock.

They also lease them with an agreement to return them at a set milage, and in turn those cars go back onto the MD forecourt as one owner and 12k miles etc.
Worked for a company with GM connections. Our company cars were all Vauxhalls and were turned over v quickly after miles or short dates, presumably for easy resale, though what they did with one of ours with a firework burn on the roof remains a mystery….
 

Oneball

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The other part of the problem with the Hertz EVs was maintaining them. Because 80% were on long term hire to Uber/Woober etc the damage costs were rather large. Can’t believe no one saw that coming!!
 

safrane

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lozcb

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Looks like there is more to this tale.

According to an Interview he gave on a Youtube channel (Geoff buys cars ) this is the second time this has happened with this particular car, and the car has been back to JL several times for this problem ...... the truth will out at some stage we presume .............JL are already in reputation survival mode are all the recent issues regarding RR Anti theft devices not working as they should resulting in the fact their own insurers refuse to insure the cars