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Indeed it was quite exciting coming back from Liverpool into the face of heavy rain and wind sapping the electrical reserve. My point is generally the range can be much more than usual or even WLTP. Zoes have done over 400 miles if one if prepared to dawdle etc compared to a WLTP of 238.

You would make it home in mos EVs. I was the Turtle in my Zoe earlier this week when it got down to 2 % range. At 6% left, about 20 miles the car suggested I use ECO mode, at 3% a battery warning come up and a limited performance warning and I got home with 2% showing on the battery percentage of charge. The limited performance was not really evident, it still accelerated like a scalded cat. In actuality, much like range prediction on a VW, one can do miles and miles after the zero. In a car powered by liquid hydrocarbons the fuel pump start to dry in air and cavitate, horrible noise. In a good EV the available power gradually diminishes to zero but this will be many many miles after zero miles range shown and the 0% State of Charge. Matt Watson drove for nearly an hour after these warnings came up in the Zoe, admittedly at a sort of town driving pace as he came off the motorway rather than breakdown there. I think he started at South Mimms and was turning off for the A19 off to Thirsk/Teesside. They had driven at 70 mph when they could up until then. Range anxiety is quite easily avoidable these days by either slowing down a bit or nip off for ten or twenty minutes and get some rapid charging done.

More important will be to get Aluminium foil hats made in time for intense solar radiation or super nova.

Wonder if my solar panels will get more power when Bettlejuice goes supernova?

As said by Luckypants the mileage allowance for first 10k miles has been set at 45p per mile for years and it represents both all the running cost and depreciation. The 25p per mile is suppose to be be for the running cost but not so much depreciation. As customs/ HMCE Officers we would look to reduce or suspending our cars when the mileage rate and recommence on April 6th when the higher rate returned. We actually got 63p per mile for cars over 2 litre engine size which was very nice. This was over 30 years ago so with inflation that must be about a £1 a mile. Whatever the rules are one should work within them. If it is not want the government want then change the rules hence they got rid off the 3 engine size rules to go to one much lower rate. If one is forced to use public transport the tax collection can become much less efficient. Work to the rules. It is a £100B plus industry for the Big 4.

It has twigged with me that range in electric cars can be, within quite a wide range and much over WLTP, what you need/want it to be. Again a trip to Liverpool from Worcester this morning. WLTP of the Zoe, did it in the Scenic 2 weeks ago and that went fine despite have the smaller 60 kwh battery, and made the 120 miles journey with 55% of the battery left should should be fine getting home. Zoe has a WLTP range of 238 miles so should not be able to make it. Journey cost about £4.40 in night time charged electricity. Reclaim off HMRC for about £50 for the unclaimed 45p a mile (as I get car allowance etc). Happy days.

I have been getting 4.2 miles per kwh whereas 3.8 is the oft quoted figure people get for the 60 kwh, 3.7 for the 87 kwh battery which gives a good range. Cooler weather taking its toll on tge predicted range but whether summer or winter if one just cruises round the double nickel ie 55/60 then the range eventually looks better. Always a difficult start from low altitude Worcester up to higher altitude Birmingham but when cruising on the more level ground, and then down to lower levels like Liverpool the range generally rises back to or above WLTP. All Scenics have heat pumps. Mileage better on Techno versions with 19 inch wheel rather than tge wider 20s.

If the R4 is cheaper or even same price as the R5 I would be going for the R4. Lots more space. Some complaints about true range over WLTP, usual stuff. We need for helpful onboard software. I am running Google 12 in the Scenic and it is constantly saying I do not have enough charge to make but I do with miles and percentages do spare. Still not seen the tortoise/turtle, is it real ?

Thanks for the compliment. There is an element of extra complexity and jeopardy with being an EV earlier adopter but also a lot of "fun" learning the optimising of living with an EV. Can be some massive cost savings, the sub 2 a mile energy costs is real and, whether entirely valid, us EVangelist get a warm glow in believe we are slowing down climate change. I am not an absolute zealot on this. Happy my son has the clio full hybrid, he sets off in EV mode, as the car management system dictates, ICE kicks in when it is needed for battery recharging and cabin heating using waste heat from the ICE, shame heat pumps are not fitted as standard on all car and I am sure the traction batteries will continue to increase, the new Superb hybrid has a 20 kwh making some 70 miles possible just in EV mode. Even helped by sister pickout a newer car. She lives on Dartmoor, not much public charging out there and in an older house no drive to put a wallbox or safely use a granny cable so she got a T-ROC 1.5 TCI with cylinder deactivation. Very economical, wish it had hybrid but still a good car with fuel consumption and emissions. I am confident the future is pure EV, the pace of improvement in both EVs and EV infrastructure is processing at quite a good pace and personally I think the move to EVs with occur by it simply being the right economic move for the vast majority of drivers as well as firms needing logistical transport. Your point out haves and have nots has merit and cheaper public charging should be a priority for all national government but it has to compete with many other worthy causes so is a difficult allocation exercise. Hope to see you in a hybrid sometime and maybe a full EV in some years should we both be still here and not with the angels.

We had these onboard ship when I was Merchant Navy both for battery kick ins and for knocking out non essential power consuming items, such as the engine room fans. We have at least two power cuts yesterday. Those device, like my fridge freezer and laptop, which are running on the home batteries being charged by overnight cheap charge and day time solar mean one does not even flinch at these power losses. Roll it out more and more so power cuts have little to no effect.

Exeter services which has dozens and the new hub at Buckfast area and the Cornwall services ? Gridserve have planning permission for a Braintree/Gatwick/Norwich style ev service station on outland road near Home Park, Green Army !!

The system actually works by comparing numbers of rotation over a fixed time period, not actual tyre pressures. It is a cheap alternative to actual pressure reading reporting valves. Changing a tyre, worn or new, can report wrong tyre pressure when it is just different circumference.

I rate value by the number of indicator stalks. TESLA 0 Renault Scenic, European Car of the Year 5 Just curious what tyres pressure do you have your MY ? Seen some incredible high numbers stated for some TESLA ie 45 psi when cold, some 42 psi when cold. That helps ones range, having the tyres like bullets losing little to hysteresis. Little bit of a negative effect on braking distance. though.

Ahh, I am just on Octopus Go, OG. I note my smart meter does not report the full 5 hours ie still stuck on the 4 hours of cheap lecky. Still getting use to new EV ie Scenic charging as the car manages the process more as you tell it when you want the car ready and to what level you want the car charged ie80, 85, 90, 95 oil 100% and it also get the car up to pre-programmed temp to save power used during the journey and therefore extend range. Just got that seg at 16c. I think ICE Rolls Royce have this. Amazing that most ICE car drivers have to suffer for minutes to get there cars up to a pleasant temperature where most EVs seem to have pre conditioning for cabin temp, included the heated seats, before you set off. No need for an ice scrapper.

IOG ? Brother on Octopus Cozy tariff. Rented house so no option for home batteries.

This is why the sub sea connection is being built from Scotland to England. Norway's hydropower is probably impossible to compete with, Denmark's wind power we should compete with. I hope the 30 GWh renewable gets built soon. The Dinorwig electric mountain is probably the most impressive peice of engineering j have seen in my life and that is 9 Gwh from memory.

It makes perfect sense to import electricity, even at 16p per kwh, at peak times, we have done this with France for years and now we have interconnectors with Denmark and Norway which gives the UK the option of using relatively cheap imported power rather than firing up a hydrocarbon station for a couple of hours and paying way more than 16p a kwh. UK acts a bridge to Ireland, South and North. Wonder if we charge a handling charge.

I suspect their are several factors that are not presented in the video. I do generally agree with his main point that the UK could have done more to get offshore wind farm turbines but then technology has been accelerating quickly with these much larger turbines with lower per unit generated costs and it's great there is huge numbers of new turbines coming online. Just comparing headline unit rates m, if that is what I suspect has been done, is not really a fair comparison. As I said many uk users do not pay the single unit price but are on multilayered tariffs. Also was the hundreds of pounds credited considered in what actually paid. I think I did not pay more than £2k in any year and I work from home mostly, home is a 4 bedroom detached house and I am charging an EV doing thousands of miles a year using that home electricity. Thankfully the Con party had a bit of heart to do tge subsidies. Government could have done some things differently. Reduce the VAT a few percent. The worst effect of the pricing doubling or so was on those on low money. As with the Winter Fuel Allowance the energy credit was something I did not need and I money on energy saving items such a foldable solar panels and home batteries which give me residence and work with my dual rate tariff. UK is increasingly becoming more resilient as more North Sea wind farms, like the new stages of Dogger Bank come online so hopefully 25p per kwh is the worst we will see in the future.

It is just a commercial reality. Like wanting a flight at a busy time rather than a quiet time. Octopus are only offering cheap power at those quite hours as there is a surplus of power and they can sell it to you at a cheap price and still make a profit. If you want lecky at busy times you have to pay the 25p a kwh there is on the homogenous daily rate or the very slightly loaded rate tge ys dual rate users pay. We are adapting to the variable price that occur the day and are handsomely rewarded for working with the energy supplier. Did not even have to prove I had an EV, or two. Octopus do similar facilities for Heat Pump uses, tri-rate i think on their Cosy rate, share £100 with my brother moving him to that tariff. Happy days, nights and monthly bills.

Go the Third Way, go with Greg from Octopus. Just need to decouple pricing from gas market prices which we should do next year as renewable not only surpass gas usage but dwarf it.

Only mugs are paying lots for lecky. The big problem is people using lecky at peak times and if you choose to have a single rate tariff you are going to get stung as the supplier assuming the worst and you are using lecky at worst times ie tea time and morning around 8 am. Octopus is happy to sell their customer lecky at about one third price for 5 or 6 hours and only charge about a 5% premium for lecky in the day time 18 or 18 hours. Most of us on GO and Intelligent Go use most of our lecky during the cheap time so our average rate is working out less than 15p a kwh, for some not much over 10p per kwh. Fail to plan then plan to fail.

Wind now exceeds gas. Report from National Grid NESO. The UK does not have to be self sufficient as it makes economic sense to buy electricity cheap from Denmark and Norway and nuclear from France. Great news coal now dead from this month as the dirtiest of fuel. Attached is the report. September out in next day or so. How was our electricity generated? (August 2024 report Gas 16.8% Wind 31.8% Nuclear 18.2% Biomass 7.1% Coal 0.2% Solar 8% Imports 14.4% Hydro 2% Storage 1.5% 739636_NESO_MonthlyElectricityReport_August_2024.pdf

Not found this to be true. Maygor ionity, opposite service station, few hundred metres, next to a subway, happy days. J1, M5, just off the trunk road, Starbucks and view of the Hawthornes Baggies ground, happy days. Now TESLA putting v4 chargers at services ie Frankley, Reading, cheaper charging prices and very convient. Not that I need to charge hardly ever so just enjoy my sub 2p per mile home charging.

There is no a huge lobby going on to decouple lecky prices from gas as gas become less relevant as a factor in the supply of energy when once it was half or so and so become the benchmark energy form everything else was pegged to. Not sure what it will be in the future. Obviously wind is just growing and growing and is less seasonal than solar. Until solar cracks the 25% efficiency level. Be interesting to see how thede micro nuclear power stations evolve. Still would not want to live near one. Hinkley Point is such a slow project to see coming on line, as would be Sizewell, not sure it will be needed when they do come on line a therefore be one of the world's biggest white elephants.

Oddly the big story of the US Port strikes hardly getting any coverage. Suez revenues are pretty health despite the Yemen troubles. https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/shipping-finance/suez-canal-reports-10-year-revenues-at-50-9bn Higher oil prices will affect all modes of transport, except electric trucks I expect, which is becoming more of a thing. Soone cash is outlawed we will see more tax collected I suspect and be able to enjoy better services.