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Please keep buying hydrocarbon fuel as the tax is needed provably more than ever. 52.95 p excise duty per litre and then VAT at 20% on the price of the fuel and VAT on the Excise duty. The tax receipts have slipped from £25B a year and is heading down towards only £20B a year so we need ICE drivers to keep buying the black gold to keep the taxes rolling in. Your support is appreciated and please gear up for that 5p a litre coming back on next year.

Sounds a good rate for lecky, hopefully not go too much in October and the VAT reduction keep it not a shock. Do you have gas as that is the killer one coming down the track ie looks like going up a fifth or even a quarter for most people who have not fixed and just hitting when we start using gas in meaningful amounts. Would be bad for next year to it is looking like. Trumps 4 to 6 week war is looking like not that, or 4 to 6 months rate its going but more like 4 to 6 years with the damage being done to Middle East oil and gas facilities.

Yes a bit of a faff or just remember the rules not to charge between 1600 and 1900, cost in my area is and eye water 38.34 p per KWh, so that would drop to 36.51 so nearly 2 p a KWH cheaper.If one can be faffed and at least set up a program to start the charge at 2200 hours when the electricity is currently 12.54 which will drop to 11.94 p per KWh when the VAT comes off in 70 days times. The bits between 1900 and 2200 and 0000 and 0400 are at 25.56 p per KWh so the fairly normal rate for most people. Problem is that when charging with a Granny cable one is only getting 3.7 KWs and so one tend to put the EV on at 1900, it is what I do when I am charging there, and just let it carry on until full. When I am visiting I usually do this but my 65 KWh battery in the Scenic will take 12 or 13 hours on the 3.7 KW and still not be quite fully charged but good enough that I can then get to one of my offices and charge up there for a punitive rate. The car charging might be better on Octopus Go or Intelligent Octopus Go but 6 hours at only 3.7 KWs would probably not be enough for the BEV and is not right for the house. I give money to my brother to compensate him. People can rent out their chargers via an Ap, like CoCharger and sell their electricity, drive space to charge other people's EV on their drive using their electricity. Less than £1K a year does not need to be declared on Self Assessment, more than that it becomes a deduction off ones tax free earnings. I am oft visiting my brother either as I am off to Felixstowe port or to do my Self Assessment as that is his business now as he is an ex HMRC OFficer like me but he was Revenue whilst I was Customs. Perhaps we will see even more private drive charging of EVs when VAT goes to Zero on 1st of October. Might be good to have access to that list just incase the public chargers are full or not working. Some of the charging may come from home batteries charged up when electricity was negative so a very health margin ! https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tax-free-allowances-on-property-and-trading-income

No no you misinderstand. One daughter has a full BEV and charges it overnight most nights. Brov has a hvbrid, not a PHEV one so does not charge it off home lecky. Expect thd BEV does take a few quid of lecky each night as the Cosy tariff is price optimised for the house not the BEV. I have charged there several times too but do not start charging until after 1900 hours as electricity is very expensive between 1600 and 1900, like 40p per KWh due to the tea time peak prices. One has to be disciplined with these Times Of Use tariffs but with the removal of 5% VAT even bigger savings for charging in the more expensive times !

One of his kids has an EV not him, he has a hybrid. Charges most days, well across the night.

With all the new wind farms coming online, more people generating their own the supply should be outstrippind demand and more instances of very cheap or negative priced electricity. Does also depend if these data centres buy up huge amounts of power and drive up prices on the other side of the coin.

House is rented so Heat Pump setup it is. No solar or batteries which would be good. Perhaps he would be allowed to have one or two plug in solar systems when there legal in a few weeks but probably I would wait until Easter to do that.

Charging an electric car probably the biggest difference. But then they are not paying couple hundred quid a month as a cost at the pumps. They are not the most adapt at tweaking their life style to the Octopus Cosy tri-rate tariff I got them on to but better than a single rate tariff. Each to their own most just want to live life and not chase down every Watt which is fair enough but full marks for using a tariff which is 100% renewable.

His bills are huge in the winter as he only has electricity, works from home most the time and its quite a large house. Think he said over £400 a month of electrcity. House was designed with Heat Pump as the inbuilt system, think there are more stream lined systems now with smaller hot water tanks as his is huge and all the gubbins does occupy one small room. I am looking for a more portable system which I can take with me but only does one large room so as with my solar arrays I can take with me when I move.

Not to those who already embrass the renewables move but also those in some places, brother lives one the birder between Essex, Cambs and Suffolk border. Like others on Briskoda there is no gas in his village and fortunately when his house wax biult they decided to go to Heat Pump tech rather tgan dirty heatjng oil. His saving thru the winter will be very significant, probably more than £20 each month in the depths of winter ie over £100 in Q4 to Q1 next year. The VAT drop on electricity so 8p per KWh becomes 7.6 p per KWh brings in virtually level with gas so fas will be my energy of choice to heat water. I will be looking to switch which energy source I most use from gas to electricity due to the VAT cut on electricity so not the £45 saving kn average household, it would be more like £60 all things being equal but my switch to choosing to use electricity to geat water rather than fas j reckon will mean more like a hundred pound a year less paid in VAT so quite significant now I am a retired person.

Hi George, apparently the removal of UK mainland VAT on electricity, aka the E rate ie lower than Standard and a reduced rate, does not apply in Northern Ireland !! The South of Ireland has a rate of 9% on domestic electricity and also the highest prices in the EU sadly. They are looking to rapidly build battery storage and thewy cannot wait to get the interlink to France which is due online in a couple years. Like most gas systems they do use a bit of electricity to pump the water around and run the control board. 4.8% drop for home charging EVs and home devices is welcome but it just makes the difference more noticeable to public chargers though I see some big networks are doing all summer discounts of about 20% ie MFG for 1.

The UK Grid needs to evolve as all Grids need to throughout the world due to massive home generation and also massive home battery storage. If there is any Black Outs or Brown Outs one will soon see which homes and businesses have invested in resilience by their lights still on. UK home generation is now estimated at over 3 GWs though this is of course dependent on good solar input. Storage, business and home, is over 10 GWh by many estimates and that figure is expected to increase several fold over the next 4 or 5 years. Projects like the Great Glen, 30 GWh, will add to Dinorwig's 9 GWh plus other slammer plants to increase resilience. Of course their are "Preference Trips" in place which trip out some business and loads such as street lights to maintain supply to homes and hospitals which could be running breathing assistance equipment though hospitals should have emergency gennies which I expect are being replaced with battery systems as a matter of course. Electricity is the only way forward though backup to Grid supplies are needed of course, even if that is ICE as no one if their right mind should object to ICE, or gas turbines as with power stations, being an emergency backup for a few hours.

Mirrors, reflection, low sun shining beneath trucks flat bed area. Amazed TESLA have not joined the rest of the automotive world with LIDAR. Not perfect, I have had brakes come on with a large leaf or plastic bag blowing across the road and quite a few reports of mysterious braking for no apparent reason. Not just an EV thing. I hit a some slow bird in one of my Octavia VRSs and it knocked that LIDAR detector plate on the front of the car and despite being "fixed" it was never the same.

More about TESLAs tech of Self Driving than TESLAs as EVs. TESLA use optical system i read rather than LIDAR which most car safety and self driving use. TESLA use TESLA vision which has had considerable criticism for being "fooled" in certain circumstances. Adaptive cruise control is enough tech for me abd self driving a step too far at the moment but will probably use FSD in tHe future but not TESLA but with a European, Korean or Japanese manufacturer.

it is more so homes, including balcony solar roll out, that the Grid will play less of a role in supplying domestic electricity. Clearly the Grid will do more to supply EV charging stations with ever more charging, depending on whether EV charging stations and data hubs put more of their own batteries and possibly even diesel generator backup for outages or when pricing goes silly a £1 a KWh or more. Octopus and Martin Lewis are our UK champions and what I follow. There are so many Youtube in-experts out there I don't waste my time. my retirement will continue to involve expanding my own electrical generation and storage using the new tech coming in and using the Time of Use tariffs to keep my energy bills low ie sub £2k per year despite having 3 EVs and a detached house which I am home most the time and therefore uses quite a lot of power ie over 20 MWh per year ie energy sub 10p per KWh cost !

My concern was community nursing etc being asked to use their cars and being out of pocket. Their role in the community is so important I am not too bothered what engine type they use but the EV salary schemes many employers are offering do make it tax efficient for some of them to choose EVs. Since I am retired and no longer claim mileage its all down to myself paying any bills but with all the new solar and wind farms coming online one hopes electricity prices will fall as long as data centre demands for power does not drives the cost up of course. Negative pricing of electricity is great and I plan to keep expanding my solar and battery at home to further lower the energy running costs and this should offset the 3p per mile charge which already looks like there are a few methods to effectively reduce the cost to below 3p per mile.

Looks like best to under estimate one's mileage and then pay any difference either on selling the car or being forced to give full mileage at service / MOT time. Certainly will look to behave differently when it comes in. Drive more short cut journeys through towns, A and B roads rather than motorways. Pump tyres up, monitor more oft. Would not be happy to have a TESLA where one report said they were over reading mileage by as much as 10% ! Still 20 months before it comes in and it will be interesting to see how it affects buyers / drivers decisions.

£2k Milltek body kit for Alpine A290 or Renault 5. Hopefully comes in yellow.

The 3 EVs i have had, all the Renault Zoe, Scenic and 5, give full performance across the entire state of charge range 100% to below 0%, some polite reminders from about 15% as to about how about using ECO mode. Mini is different, it has more power than any of the Renaults and it does start reducing available power down from the 181 hp from about 20%, not massively at first, but it does try and restrict power sage to extend range by a bit. Dont think it goes many miles past 0% unlike the Renaults and TESLA according to Bjorn Nyland. Yes its about 300 feet up the hill which the EVs won out on or the Rally cars come down and sadly get much less attention than the road and road racing cars. Some years ago I was a guest of Skoda for the Goodwood FoS rally, won a place with them from the Autosport show. Got to meet Andreas Mikkelsen who still does WRC for Skoda. one of the 4 of us got to copilot with him down the hill but it I missed out but a great experience for all 4 of us and especially the one who got to go with Andreas. All the rally cars are ICE and I think the WRC has dropped the hybrid ie battery component until road and road race cars, F1 etc, which now heavily lean on hybrid. Looking forward to the full electric Gen 4 race cars going on more of the F1 circuits and compare times. Formula e will still use road tyres I gather but 4 wheel drive should and the big increase in power and torque should give some interesting times, Circuit of America etc.

Hills ? I thought EVs are suppose to be so heavy that would affect their hill climbing. EVs are just so much quicker off the mark as their torque is at a nidge over tickover spinning revs whereas with an ICE car it is going to be mid or upper rev range. The ICE car loses even before the first 20m usually. Noise is wasted power. Fine for a 4 year old child going brmm, brmm but must start to feel embarrassing when you have a crescendo of noise but keep coming second ie "first last". I am reminded off poor off the mark of ICE cars many a day. Off to the pub Saturday night, Corsa draws up on my outside with us in the 5. My five is the Evolution model ie only 120 hp but what it has got is instant torque like all EVs. Race to the left turn almost over within the first second. Corsa might have been a 1.2 turbo ICE but no match for just about any EV off the line. Loud exhaust does not help but only gives the ICE driver more theatre not noticeably better acceleration, tailpipe between legs, again.

Goodwood festival of Speed over for another year. Fastest times up the hill this year. McMurray did not run again this year. Lots of ICE cars making lots of noise but not going that quickly. Quickest cars may surprise. (Spoiler, not ICE cars but what you possibly did not want to see, or hear)

No but if needs must one can go from doing 4 or 5 miles per KWh to up to 10 miles per KWh, Bjorn Nyland has proved this time and time again. Not suggest one becomes a total menace driving at 20 mph, which is more than the average speed in London most of the time, but dropping to 30 mph, going on to city streets, it is the limited speed of new mopeds sold from late 70s to about a decade ago, and some of our EVs can then get approaching 10 miles per KWh. In my 5 years and near 100k miles driving an EV, compared to my circa 1M driving ICE cars, only once had to think oh now not got the range to get me home and get the cheap electricity and that was when the M5 junction 1, the Baggies junction, was at a standstill. Satnav said go round Brum ring road clockwise, some 30 miles further, get a charge somewhere, zap and dash, and get home about an hour later. But one doesn't do that, I diverted down the Black COuntry Express Way and cut thru the Black Country. Got home about quarter of an hour later with miles to spare, not sure if I used my 20 mile of so buffer below 0% or not. According to AA only about 1.5% of EV call out are for out of traction power. Sadly we suffer irreparable tyre failures and the like, same as ICE cars, much more oft the running out of lecky.

LEAF Mk 2 is / was a C segment car, unlike the Zoe which was B segment. The two versions 39 and 60 kwh versions. I tried to order / buy the 60 kwh but it was in short supply, long order delay. 60 kwh version has / had a 240 mile WLTP range and a buffer of around 10 miles below 0% Went for the 52 kwh Zoe and did not regret it despite it only being B segment size. Zoe has done well over 400 miles in hyper miling exercise.

US has 120v throughout the house usually and 240v in the basement and garage for heavier duty appliances. Maybe Musk, as was Mr Tesla, DC Is more efficient than AC and as more and more generation is becoming DC then passing into AC and then back to DC is a huge waste of power.

More countries and US states joining in on plug in solar revolution. California to join Texas abd several other states, and Germany of course, to provide free supply of electricity to consumers. As mentioned on can easily bypass the plug in route by getting a shoe box sized battery, Lithium Iron Phophate preferable, to taje the solar input and then use it to supply the power hungry fridge freezer. One can do this as well as join the Time Of Use tariffs which can mean access to negative and very cheap electricity, like we are getting tomorrow for 5.5 hours, and we gave half such sessions each week for the last weeks to charge the EVs, doing the washing, heat the water for baths etc. With Greg Jackson being part of government, for 3 years, and his no 1 UK company partnership with CATL, falling battery prices it is looking good for cheaper electricity to those willing to adopt these systems.