EV Owners Thread

[albion]

I understand that there are places that will allow you to fill your empty battery up without the need to carry a heavy spare (although tbf an early Tesla concept was a filling station which dropped your empty battery out from underneath and plugged a full one in)

I know but a motorway kw charge is 74p + whilst a home night charge can be 10p.
A long time in the future there will be a standard for range extenders.

 

[CXRAndy]

Excuse my ignorance but what's the deal with steering wheel angle being displayed?

For legal reasons when used in accidents or incidents

 

[Gunk]

That was the quote, including certification, if I supplied the charger. The charger would be mounted on the outside of the same wall that houses the MCB and would be only about 30cm higher than that, so very little in the way of cabling.

Ours didn’t involve that much cabling, but we had a second fuseboard for the charger. Plus a fresh EICR

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I know but a motorway kw charge is 74p + whilst a home night charge can be 10p.
A long time in the future there will be a standard for range extenders.

Agreed, as long as battery technology develops sufficiently for them to be small and portable, but there again if they're small, light and high capacity, why not just build them in?

 

[CXRAndy]

All new EV charger installations must have a wired CT monitor clamp. This is so the charger can reduce charge rate if overall power usage nears maximum house fuse rating. This can be 60/80/100 Amps depending on property size. For my lads house we had to dig up his garden to feed a lan data lead from his meter box. We laid conduit so electrician could pull lead through

 

[Jameshow]

It is Vertu who has the Spring, plus it is the one with the acceptable motor.
https://www.vertumotors.com/used-cars/used-dacia/used-dacia-spring
So 64 bhp instead of 44bhp and a saving of £7000 on the '10 miles delivery mileage' models.

Horrid colour...

Austin Allegro anyone!!

 

[albion]

Horrid colour...

Austin Allegro anyone!!

That colour hit the top of the list. There was also red and blue if you looked.
No great surprise that EVs are now cheaper than ICE cars. Battery prices have likely halved in the last 18 months.

 

[CXRAndy]

Get a used 62kW Nissan leaf for less. 200+ mile range in winter

 

[Tenkaykev]

Horrid colour...

Austin Allegro anyone!!

I used to make those...

 

[stephec]

Looks like I'll be joining this thread in future.

At the moment my company car is a four year old diesel Mondeo, big and comfy but not exactly nippy, although it goes round corners well for a big car, it's due to be changed but I'd happily keep it until I retire in around five years.

Now the new head of finance has decided that all new cars will be electric so I'm getting a Skoda Enyaq with the smaller battery, 263 miles allegedly on a good day.

Now when I do a trip to Glasgow I can get up there and back on a full tank, and go back up there again before filling up, if I'm lucky the Skoda will just get me there in winter.

The only advantage I can see for me is that I'll get a home charger fitted for free, and I'll save over £100 a month in tax for now.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The only advantage I can see for me is that I'll get a home charger fitted for free, and I'll save over £100 a month in tax for now.

So, other than getting your house upgraded for nothing, £1200 cash every year, oh, and not frying the planet for your grandchildren, there are no advantages.

I can see why you're pissed off TBF.

 

[CXRAndy]

Looks like I'll be joining this thread in future.

At the moment my company car is a four year old diesel Mondeo, big and comfy but not exactly nippy, although it goes round corners well for a big car, it's due to be changed but I'd happily keep it until I retire in around five years.

Now the new head of finance has decided that all new cars will be electric so I'm getting a Skoda Enyaq with the smaller battery, 263 miles allegedly on a good day.

Now when I do a trip to Glasgow I can get up there and back on a full tank, and go back up there again before filling up, if I'm lucky the Skoda will just get me there in winter.

The only advantage I can see for me is that I'll get a home charger fitted for free, and I'll save over £100 a month in tax for now.

£100 /month tax savings, not to be sniffed at.

Running an ICE vehicle as a company car is just wasteful with the tax penalties

 

[stephec]

I like the savings, although when the government isn't getting any tax because everyone is driving an EV that will soon change.

The limited range means plenty of time sat at the services for me charging, which the company will pay for in overtime, when for an extra £2000 upfront they could've got the larger battery.

As usual it's an accountant who has no idea what your job entails telling you how you should do it.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I like the savings, although when the government isn't getting any tax because everyone is driving an EV that will soon change.

The limited range means plenty of time sat at the services for me charging, which the company will pay for in overtime, when for an extra £2000 upfront they could've got the larger battery.

As usual it's an accountant who has no idea what your job entails telling you how you should do it.

Yeah, I can see the frustration of having spec imposed.

 

[Beebo]

I like the savings, although when the government isn't getting any tax because everyone is driving an EV that will soon change.

The limited range means plenty of time sat at the services for me charging, which the company will pay for in overtime, when for an extra £2000 upfront they could've got the larger battery.

As usual it's an accountant who has no idea what your job entails telling you how you should do it.

Yes. That is silly.
We get quite a bit of choice in our company cars. We just have to work to a budget so I compromised on interior upgrades / paint choices to allow for the bigger battery.
A bigger battery trumps leather seats for me.