Battery Electric Vehicle News / Enjoying the Transportation Revolution

buglawton

EVandPV said:

silverwhistle said:

buglawton said:

ill EVs seem to be twice as expensive to insure in the UK, due no doubt to higher repair costs.

General consensus on the EV boards is that insurance costs are pretty similar, although as always there are outliers.

My Zoe was 50 quid less than my last ICE (Kia Rio) although I didn't take breakdown cover with the Zoe as it comes with the battery lease. Otherwise it probably would have worked out about the same.

My current ICE car is old enough to be in bangernomics territory. I follow EV threads and YouTube on EV out of technical interest, the tech really is more interesting than the ICE. Were I to switch to a 'bangernomics' EV it would have to be a well used Leaf or similar. Which regrettably would only get me to work and back. My bangernomics car with its 50mpg is too cheap to run for me to seriously look at an EV at the moment. I suspect a lot of the British public do a similar calculation.

EricMears

EVandPV said:

Well that's that myth put to bed then.  

I doubt it !   You'll probably see someone else (or at least a different user-ID) posting it again soon !

Solarchaser

Running an old old car, hating EV's....

You dont know anything about interconnectors or district heating by any chance?

EVandPV

Solarchaser said:

Running an old old car, hating EV's....

You dont know anything about interconnectors or district heating by any chance?

Was thinking along the lines of nukes and marginal gas/coal myself. 

Coastalwatch

buglawton said:

Ectophile said:

buglawton said:

Tesla is simply trying to sell at the top. Run a mile.

Are you one of the people who has lost money shorting Tesla shares recently?  There are a lot of people who keep predicting their imminent collapse.

Never touched Tesla stock. Sold my last shares in a US company and won't be buying more - too much paperwork and fiddly to trade.

Sold mine online, only took the click of a button and a cheque arrived a few days later. Wouldn't mind betting that today you could probably have it paid straight into your account!

1961Nick

buglawton said:

Ectophile said:

buglawton said:

Tesla is simply trying to sell at the top. Run a mile.

Are you one of the people who has lost money shorting Tesla shares recently?  There are a lot of people who keep predicting their imminent collapse.

Never touched Tesla stock. Sold my last shares in a US company and won't be buying more - too much paperwork and fiddly to trade.

If you used an online platform there's zero paperwork ... trading US stock is exactly the same process as trading a London stock.

Martyn1981

Carbon Commentary newsletter extract(s):

2, Electrifying heavy vehicles. Renault sold twenty 26 tonne trucks to Carlsberg to provide distribution services in Switzerland. Delivery is this year. Range is about 200 kilometres with a 200 kWh battery pack. At an even larger scale, Williams Advanced Engineering, an offshoot of the Formula 1 team, showed off its design for a huge mining truck that will have a battery of about 1 MWh, as well as hydrogen storage and a fuel cell to top up the electric power. This monster will be working at a South African mine of Anglo American sometime in 2020, Williams said. It won’t be the first vehicle of this size to move to a hydrogen and battery configuration. A Chinese company announced a 200 tonne equivalent a few weeks ago.  

EVandPV

Some good news for Chargemap users ......

http://blog.chargemap.com/chargemap-cutting-charging-rates/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cmnews_en_29

EricMears

EVandPV said:

Some good news for Chargemap users ......

http://blog.chargemap.com/chargemap-cutting-charging-rates/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cmnews_en_29

If you thought it was worth paying an extra 15% just to save loading a few apps,  you're not going to be all that excited by only having to pay 10% in future !  And now that contactless cards are being more widely accepted at chargers,  there's even less advantage to the chargemap scheme.

EVandPV

EricMears said:

EVandPV said:

Some good news for Chargemap users ......

http://blog.chargemap.com/chargemap-cutting-charging-rates/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cmnews_en_29

If you thought it was worth paying an extra 15% just to save loading a few apps,  you're not going to be all that excited by only having to pay 10% in future !  And now that contactless cards are being more widely accepted at chargers,  there's even less advantage to the chargemap scheme.

Must admit, I've never used Chargemap so had no idea how it all worked.
We have the Charge Place Scotland network up here which has been free until recently with most regions now introducing fees. I'm pretty much charging overnight at home all the time now as a result.