that is the other business model. Buy the car - rent the battery. It has its advantages in that you don't ever need to care about degradation but there's a lot of infrastructure involved to do it.
I'll deffo go back to electric - the driving experience is superb apart from anything else - but not till my circumstances change
Scalextric style slots would be funthat is the other business model. Buy the car - rent the battery. It has it's advantages in that you don't ever need to care about degradation but there's a lot of infrastructure involved to do it.
Wireless charging on the motorway or scalextric style brushes for the win
Again, you would start with a full battery, ideally charged at home. And then only fast charge when you need to. Please don't "fill up". It's a waster of your time. Check out A better routeplanner (ABRP) which will help you optimise your journeys. I can't re itierate this point enough, due to charging curves "filling up" on a long journey is so slow
That's great and all and good for Toyota. You'll need the 1k KM range given the only refueling places are in Aberdeen!
Blimey I have a VW diesel transporter camper and get about 60 miles for a tenner ( I have always calculated my usage that way ) so if my math is right it would cost me less ( about 67 quid ) than your electric car.
Probably. The 95% of driving I do when I can charge at home though costs me about 20% of the cost of diesel.
This is the worst part of the hydrogen argument imo, I don't want to have to go to the hydro station to fill up. We already have electric chargers for cards and electricity on our houses and streets (lampposts). For most people home chargers make sense, for the few that don't have access then alternate solutions can be found but defo no tanks of hydrogen everywhere when home charging is so convenient
I hate to belabour the point but you're always comparing the very worst case fuel costs. For 99% of journeys you would be using much cheaper fuel. Unless ALL you do is 300 mile plus motorway then you're not making a fair comparison. Not thinking of your overall fuel bill per month. I just want an honest conversation about EV which is why I always try and steer people away from "how much to fill up on a motorway" comments because for most people it's only representative of a very tiny amount of their car usage. It's like saying "Oh my ICE vehicle costs £2000 every month to run" because in one month you had to get your MOT, tax, service and insurance done and that was the cost all in.
I'm guessing he has a NACS tesla with a CCS adaptor if he has free supercharging? Yes I wouldn't recommend this at all. I had one as a courtesy car once and the adaptor gave awful charge speeds
This is a good point. I bang on about it A LOT but that's because some people who argue against EV just don't seem to get how convenient it can be if you can charge from home, or wherever it is you happen to be. I honestly find it strange that people would argue FOR going to a specific building and making a journey just to refuel when you could do it wherever you happened to be parking anyway. I guess it's just what people are used to.
Suppose that's true if you're always on the road with it. But when within 130 miles of home (i.e 230 mile range - Majority of the UK that would cover almost all of their driving. ) we've been charging back to "full" for £2. Most we've paid is about £5. Tomorrow it's 2p a unit, Saturday is expected to go into a negative price. I've not seen a diesel that pays you to drive it. Very rare we would have to use motorway chargers.
That sounds about right bit he did mention he had the charging port altered by Tesla I think to allow for the faster charging. I will have to ask him.
It was my idea for her to get an EV as like I said it would be perfect for the daily commute.
I always try and seek put an AC charger near were I am staying our visiting. The bonus of refueling whilst you do whatever you do anyway is perfect. And in some places you essentially don't have to pay for parking becasue you can use your refueling for 7 hours. That's only if I'm doing a 300 mile+ round trip of course. Otherwise I just don't charge at all.
20mins on a supercharger gets you back to 80%, personally If I drive 200m I need to stop for a pee and/or coffee anyway, so I don't even notice it
He was probably doing alright on EV's when they were selling over list or not depreciating on his forecourt, hence why he bought so many. Problem is the one's he's bought in will likely have came at a premium, and now the prices have come back to parity (extremely quickly) and caught him out, as they would any small dealer. Tough to time that right for a small dealer, but ultimately comes down to a bad decision/ bad timing or a combination of both.
