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BPHIL of course frosty mornings won't be a thing of the past.
Climate change is about extremes in the ecosystem .
We can have even colder temp but the average will be higher year on year for the cycle that we inhabit at the time.
Spoilt little brat, or in other words "a manchild"!
Yes he is been an idiot. He will stop soon enough.
Zoros . Tell your neighbour not to worry ; according to the climate change expert Quady and his astronomy mates , frosty mornings will soon be a thing of the past ....
Any news on SOLG anyone...?
Novice ..lol!!:):)
Blimey this has turned into a top gear chat board ? Have a great weekend all, and nice to finish positive (albeit small) for the week. Also happy in the knowledge that poly is fooooooooked Lolzzzz
A few weeks ago exactly the same happened to both my petrol car and diesel van.
What's your point?
I'm sure you know that's **** all to do with having an electric engine Zoros!
My neighbour has a Tesla. During the cold snap a few weeks ago, he couldn't get into the damn thing because the door handles wouldn't pop open because of the frost/ice! He had to use a hair dryer to free them up.
Z
I've got a Tesla Model 3. I was initially nervous about it and the UK charging point infrastructure, but it's not an issue. I;ve got a charger at work. If you are on the motorway you can frequently do a supercharge in 20 minutes - have a jimmy and coffee it's not an issue. I'm not a car buff but I was keen to get away from petrol/diesel cars and a lifetime of a multitude of different conventional engine kit going wrong and frequently costing the earth. Make no mistake about it the Tesla superb, I'll never go back to petrol/diesel cars if I can.
Pricing at public charging points has gone nuts in conjunction with electric prices going through the roof.
But that will drop when V2H comes into regular use and the price of electric drops to reflect less stress on the grid.
Articles from the likes of Giles Coren recently have not helped, but EVs are the way forward. Surely he knew **** having access to a home charging point would create issues.
Off peak 7.5p/kw
Peak is 39p but rarely use peak electric
Access to free chargers for 2 years, until October, within walking distance
Octopus
Electric prices will plummet this year, imv
And one thing everyone is missing is that the damage done to the environment by BUILDING a new E/V is much more than the damage filling my AMG will do if I keep it for tbhe rest of my life.
And it is also the reason why I always buy secondhand cars...
Addicknt, no I've not read the Daily Mail.
But I do know an EV that's done 120k miles and has only ever needed tyres and wiper blades replacing.
I guess the brake pads might need doing at some point, but I don't expect there will be any trouble from the timing belt, water pump, oil filter, catalytic converter, EGR valve, exhaust etc.
So its not all bad news.
If you can charge up at home most times, and you don't think electricity is going to double, I think they are worth a look.
I had a plus in Hybrid then changed to Full Electric MERC EQC last year (I keep the full Electric vehicle for only 6m) then charged back to Hybrid again. It’s £0.55 per kWh to charge (I still have the Shell Recharge app, which you can use at all London lamp Post to charge on residential parking bay) ubitricity (now owed by shell) its more expensive to have a full electric vehicle, it’s cheaper to use petrol and pay the CC when travelling to central london (Hybrid is definitely the best options and it has very low emissions) and don’t forget it takes around 10+h to change at the £0.55 per kWh. The best thing about electric cars is you can’t use the air-con or heating (immediately your range is halved lol….. and that is if you ever can get 70-80% of the range showing)
I'm certain you lot are all far too intelligent to read the Daily Mail, but in today's edition there's a two page spread on the realities of owning an electric car - and it isn't good news.
Just looked up average price per KWH amongst UK power companies.
It's 34pence.
So for 28p you wouldn't even get one KW. Hence not even four miles.
Tesla what is your cost per KWH and what power company are you with.
I can charge our car 35 miles and it costs 28p
From the telegraph Tesla
“New peak pricing at electric car chargepoints can leave consumers worse off than if they stuck to traditional petrol-engined vehicles, according to new analysis from the AA.
Previous analysis by motoring organisations has showed the cost of charging electric vehicles has soared (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/06/electric-vehicle-drivers-hit-surge-pricing-thousands-roadside/) in recent months, driven by rising energy prices partly triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February.
Rapid charge points used by motorists topping u
p on long drives are now nearly £10 more expensive than filling up a car with petrol, the RAC revealed last week.”
Depends on the weather/temperature.
One comfortably does 5 miles per KW the other is half that.
But 8 months of the year the KW are free and off peak is 7.5p. Plenty of people still on a rip off peak tariff though.
But there have been free chargers and still are since I first got an EV in 2020.
Sorry Tesla if you were correct then 300miles would cost three pounds which is less than ten kilowatts.
GGP or SOLG hmmmm
What will give me more bang for my buck?
Dates for the diary …. If we last that long 2 events early March for Solg
https://redcloudfs.com/prepdac2023/
https://www.pdac.ca/convention/attendee-info/mobile-app-home
Was wondering if the website was still working
I believe a typical EV does about 4 miles per kilowatt hour. So for you 1p figure to be correct your home electricity would need to cost 4p per kilowatt hour! I doubt many people are paying anything like that.
Many other benefits to EV's though.