Looking at buying a new car
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pooman2084
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A fib! Have at you sir!
The car uses around 25kWh per 100 miles. Each unit is 6.67p. Therefore 200 miles is £3.35. A bit less if no heating or AC.
The car uses around 25kWh per 100 miles. Each unit is 6.67p. Therefore 200 miles is £3.35. A bit less if no heating or AC.
pooman2084
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We also put things like dishwasher and washing and dehumidifiers on in the night. Also we charge all our phones / laptops/ battery packs etc overnight so don’t use much electric in the day at all really.
kingtreelo
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so you are sitting at home in the dark all day...lol
i dont know what car you have also, but i am guessing it is a low range car if the battery is that small?
that isnt a slight BTW, i am also looking for a 2nd cheaper electric car after realising the benefits of EVs
Err, it's pretty light here during the day. How far North are you? 😁 and led lights in every socket so they don't cost much to run. I pay 6p per kWh (special deal as Octopus supplied the car) so with a 100kw battery it costs about £6 for a full charge (between 2-300 miles). I average about 1200 miles a month.
4 bedroom house, electric to cook, dehumidifier running quite often, dish washer, washing machine. I work from home the majority of the time (pc running and several screens)
My electric bill averages 150-170 a month which I think is pretty good these days. To be honest I never really give it much thought...
4 bedroom house, electric to cook, dehumidifier running quite often, dish washer, washing machine. I work from home the majority of the time (pc running and several screens)
My electric bill averages 150-170 a month which I think is pretty good these days. To be honest I never really give it much thought...
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pooman2084
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Open the curtains man, it’s way cheaper!
I’ve got a Polestar 2. The range is actually about 280 on a cruise and it’s a 70kWh battery, but my sums still work. We only charge it to 80% mostly as Polestar recommend for longer battery life. Also charging isn’t linear with batteries. The last 10% takes more power than the middle 10% to charge.
If your car preheats the battery before charging that saves £ too.
pooman2084
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Your use and monthly averages are pretty much the same as mine.
When your rate is cheaper overnight it’s easy to adapt habits accordingly. It’s not about doing nothing in the day, just pacing your usage more smartly to when there is excess electricity on the grid and the cost is cheaper. It’s win win really.
kingtreelo
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i think it all evens itself out a bit with these energy tariffs, i could have gone for a really cheap one during the night, which would get me charging my for a few quid, but i WFH 3 days a week and the wife does the other 2 days to look after the hounds
so it would have all just balanced itself out when looking at it, we are still saving £40 per full charge over putting petrol into our other car though, regardless of when we charge it
kingtreelo
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its mad isnt it that people get like that
a bloke i work with refused to put more than £10 in petrol in his car because it would be inefficient and make the car heavier if he put more in it, and used to drive at an optimal speed on the motorway to preserve fuel
probably saving about £3 a month, he's on 50k
Poor bloke, maybe he qualifies for income support 😁
We had a guy work with us like that, he would only fill work van half full because he said he'll get better fuel econemy then drives like he's wearing a lead boot, driving 20 mile detour to fuel station so he could get nectar points and having to fill up at motorway services because he's running on vapours
One day I had a call from manager asking if we could get some fuel and take it this idiot because he ran out of fuel in his car on way to work, told em to piss off
I'd worked with some morons over the years but this guy was a whole new level, I don't know how he's made it this far in life, he used to screw up more jobs than he fixed and would turn up to job without the part order for the call, without his bootstock part because he's forgot to collect replacement, drive 80 miles back to pickup and then call given to me because he lies part was DOA
One day I had a call from manager asking if we could get some fuel and take it this idiot because he ran out of fuel in his car on way to work, told em to piss off
I'd worked with some morons over the years but this guy was a whole new level, I don't know how he's made it this far in life, he used to screw up more jobs than he fixed and would turn up to job without the part order for the call, without his bootstock part because he's forgot to collect replacement, drive 80 miles back to pickup and then call given to me because he lies part was DOA
kingtreelo
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finally managed to get a photo today, absolutely beautiful to drive
blahdy beautiful, innit!
John Bennett
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I also now have an EV (said farewell to the S-Max )
I can report it charges by 2% an hour on a 240V adaptor (about 6 miles). I'll worry about all that later...
It's quite easy to spot in a car park.
I can report it charges by 2% an hour on a 240V adaptor (about 6 miles). I'll worry about all that later...
It's quite easy to spot in a car park.
kingtreelo
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trying to convince mine and my wifes work to get them installed so they are "cleaner"
my wife said they already had them, they didnt, it was just come bloke plugging his into a 3 pin socket
Michael Usmane
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Are you satidfied with its multimedia? Looks not good in YouTube reviews.
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