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  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,234 Forumite
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    For a self-charging  one, what sort of mileage would you have to do for it to be charging? We don't do enough distance driving to consider it, I think.
    NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!
  • badmemory
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    edwink said:
    Personally, it would worry me that we could run out of charge before we found the nearest EV charging station but that's just me.
    This is what worries me about going electric rather than hybrid.  But a friend tells me that by the time my current car falls off the road they won't let me drive anyway, so I suppose it is bit of a non-issue!

  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,234 Forumite
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    Thank you edwink! That explains it for me.
    As yet we couldn't have an all EV cos the car sits 80m from the house and across a road! No one on our estate could do it unless they fitted charging points in every single car parking space. And at every single garage. And I don't think they're about to do that!!!
    Or we could talk sweetly to the people in one of the end houses and use an extension lead...😆
    NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!
  • Karmacat
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    Edwink, that's a great post, thank you so much!  As for needing to charge, I think the range is improving all the time - but my brother borrows his son's Tesla sometimes, and pointed out something important, for an all-EV car.  Even if it can do the long journey (eg London to Merseyside, which is what he does) it's no good arriving at your destination with no charge - and his nearest charging point is 20 miles away, so he has to sit there for varying amounts of time, for it to charge up enough to be useful.  

    I have car-type gates by the side of my foot-gate at the front, so I could actually drive my car off the road and charge from my house, but it would be horrible - I'd rather go to the charging unit about a mile away.  But my first choice would be a self charging hybrid.  

    I'm very hot!  And so is the house - I went for a walk at about 8pm, and the house was sweltering to come back to.  Hopefully, just one more night.  Hope everyone manages to get some sleep.  I've cleaned about two thirds of the shopping, letting it air out before putting it away, so it's not bad.

    Night night all :) 
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    As for the car, if I bought a 3 or 4 year old hybrid, and drove it as I think I'll drive it (locally, carefully, 2 or 3 times a week) it might do me for as long as I want to drive, I don't know.  That's a bit far ahead to think of, but there's no harm in it.

    The poem is quite something, isn't it, Cheery.  Second World War, not the First, but just as poignant.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Brilliant post, thank you Suffolk Lass.  There's so much research I need to do!  I've just been checking for local driving instructors who use automatics, and there aren't that many - there's only one that probably covers my town, for heaven's sake!  One is enough, after all, if you connect well to the instructor.

    Bit of a fail today on cleaning the rest of the shopping - but at least I reorganised the cupboards a bit, watered the container plants, and went on my healthy walk.  I was hiding from the heat again :) I was also trapped in the house a little bit, as Virgin are currently installing  cable broadband.  I'm not very tempted by Virgin, they've caused me real problems in the past.  We'll see.

    Still hot!  Hope everyone can sleep :) 
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • beanielou
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    Yes, when I learnt to drive it twas very very hard to get an instructer with an automatic.
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