lol-lol

I am an old fashion and straight forward kind of guy and the simplicity and regularity of Octopus go suits me down to the ground. 5 hours of silly cheap lecky, always between 0030 and 0530. know exactly where I am with it. Decided not to even try and go to Intelligent Octopus, I want the total control, sometime leave the house at 0500/0530 and I can work out to the percent almost how much charge I will have, at what precise time the car will hit 80% or 100% charged. Guys from the Grid have just done their and left which seems like it was basically to say " ah no, you should not have a 100 Amp fuse, we will check that for a 80 A, another little test on a in house 3 pin and then my question " thought you might be uprating the fuse or putting in a form of trip rather than down rating my main fuse when I am adding another 7.2kw ie adding a new 30A device to my home equipment. Have to make sure I am not charing both cars, having a shower whilst using the electric immersion heater and boiling the kettle, 30+15+30+13+10 = 98 Amps. If I go in to total darkness then I can call 103 to get the grid to change the fuse, waiting in the dark, thankfully I have my solar generator batteries to keep going. Have heard it said that it actually takes 160A for over 200 seconds to blow a 80A fuse so should be OK !

Despite living in Worcester I am well above the flood plain, it would need something biblical for us to get mildly moist. The Severn floods of 2007 taught Worcestestshire and Gloucestestershire a great deal. Farmers know get their land flooded instead of the city. The lesson of the thousand or so properties on the flood plain at Tewkesbury is still in the memories of people in this area. I have National Grid coming to do a cut out check before the fitting of my second car charger, this is due to be a 7.4 rather than the 3.7 kw podpoint I already have. Indra charger being fitted, tethered it looks like which will save time. Made in Malvern so even the delivery is low or zero carbon. Indra just partnered with Scottish power so hopefully will improve matters up north.

Not the full 1,000 km challenge, which he reckons would take over 10 hours in the big battery Scenic, but a fuel consumption/range test.... I am sure he would get better range and quicker journeys if he stuck to 110/115 kph rather than driving at 130+ kph. Massive difference in energy consumption ie about 50% !

On the West side of England, plus it affected the Welsh side of the Severn/Bristol Channel, the event of 1607. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1607_Bristol_Channel_floods Hinkley point would be knocked out of action probably. thousands dead, 200 square miles of land devastated. Keeping the lights, and EVs going, on could be a problem if this repeated.

Buying the Scenic was like pushing an opening door, I wonder just how far they would go in terms of discounts. As always look at Autotrader to see what dealers are offer. Usually it is hard enough just to get hundreds off the base model particularly but to get thousands off, and a loan rate lower than my mortgage rate and a free charger. I think there might be free mats and a bunch of flowers too. If I pay the rest of the deposit on American Express it might be scary what happens.

Reduced interest rate, 8.9% !!! Down from 11 or 12 % I suppose. Getting 4.9% on the new Renault which is feel is a fairish rate.

The EU has lowered the counterveiling duty on TESLA to 9%, BYD next lowest at 17% but I seem to remember that Geely and SAIC/MG are still up around 38% Ad Valorem plus the normal 10% custon duty as well. Be hard for Gelly and SAIC to sell to the EU so maybe they will target UK and make more Right Hand Drive cars.

Ford had a grand plan to premium brands, Aston, JLR and Volvo. Whilst engines were OK I suppose the interiors, especially switch gear, were shocking and showed Ford just did not get premium cars ambience as part of their buyer satisfaction. My Jaaag type S was a very nice car in many was but the Ford Swichgear, yuck.

Might just get a Polestar under £40k and then the relative monthly payments under one or other schemes. Polestar 2 reminds me too much of my S40. This was basically a ford focus with a different body shell on. Nice around except it had the PSA 1.6 diesel in it, not very good and not even that good on fuel. It was more like £17k when I had one but that was 15 year ago but even so. Also I suppose all Polestar 2s, even if one can get a few K off the price, are going to be hit with the luxury car tax, for cars with RRP over £40k, sooner or later.

Thanks and I saw this one yesterday and reckon it was very honest. Made the very good point that whilst range was relatively good if you tank it ie 80 mph cruising, you could get less than 200 miles put of even the big battery model. Probably as low as 150 out of my 60 kwh version I am getting. Aero drag is a cube relationship it is oft forgotten, tyre energy loss more of a square. Great car in so many ways but if one wants a motorway mile muncher then get a model 3 or ID 7 or similar or wait for new model Y.

Only if one is interested in old LEAFs. The LEAF was the forerunner mass market EV but the tech us known by many of us to be flawed. The battery pack only had passive heat release to the environment and particularly the 24 and even more so the 30 kwh pack can degrade faster the just about any other EVs battery pack. The Zoe which has also been made in the hundreds of thousands gas less issues due to its active air cooling and now all EVs as dar as I know are liquid cooled it is a non issue. EVs on average will achieve twice as many miles with the original engine in place.

On motorcycles we had decades of 25w/35w non halogen single headlights. I know what poor headlights have been like in previous decades. Headlights blows, try and replace or wait until dawn !

Metro/underground would be the evidence of not needing a car I would have thought. Then quick link to multi modal link. Birmingham International Airport, rail and motorway hub, with HS2 being added in the next few years if the only place in the UK I can think off that has a host of modes in one place.

No not really, no plans. It will be in eco mode most of the time and I expect to get close too 300 miles range even with the 60 kwh battery. Reportedly the car will do 71 mph in eco mode so no 130 kph needed for French roads or 150 is it's speed limit as the motor hits 11,000 rpm. Expect it might shown as about 155 kph as bigger battery version shows 176 kph even though supposedly limited to 170 kph. Byorn Nyland has a Scenic on test this weekend. He was not impressed with the headlight, said it needed LEDBAR ? Space in the car is very impressive he thought. Waiting for the 1,000 km challenge but I am not expecting a leading result especially if he barrels it at 130 kph where he can, not where tge Scenic excels. Keep it too 110 kph ie just under 70 mph and it will look much better.

Cannot wait to get my Flame Red one. Sounds like Bjorn is doing the whole set of tests on the Scenic. It will be the 87 kwh usable battery one I have no doubt rather than the 60 kwh I am having in a few days time. Ticks all the boxes for me except it is not great efficiency at high speed due to it Cd of 0.297. I will be paying closer to £30k than £40k plus get a home charger chucked in.

Bloody scary hybrid car in a crash ie F1 driver Sargent totals his F1 car and it catches fire......

North Sea, ie Dogger English area, Bristol Channel tidal and Hinkley nuclear should be plenty with more and more home solar pushing down the demand, even with the increasing population. Scottish people depopulating Scotland is an issue, as seen in the reduced number of seats in Westminster as the percentage of people living in Scotland reduces as of the total if the UK. At least the sea route interconnector gets round the pylons issue. If Scotland go independent they could sell the electricity in competition with Denmark, France, Holland and Norway who do such?

Sounds good but the other benefits such as the Electroverse are worth quite careful bit to me. When I charge in public chargers using Electroverse it just comes off my house account and as I am usually in credit it does nit hit me at all. E.ON and those others in the car charging sphere should keep prices down. EDF must gave tahen a huge bath on their 3 year tariffs, which are only just coming to an end, must have cost them billions. Very loyal to Octopus as part of the Third Way. Earned quite a bit in referrals. May get a heat pump off them soonish as the survey criteria has been relaxed.

Greg Jackson spent some time the Rachel Reeves recently. Bold move to take away the winter allowance from everyone and put it through so the money is actually spent on fuel. The cheap ev tariffs are not subsidised but purely a factor of those times of the day when nobody else wants to buy lecky. With more of Dogger bank coming on line and more international interconnectors lecky should get cheaper and cheaper. I would like to see more tidal, zooming around in an HMRC/ Border Force Cutter I can appreciate ho powerful those tidal currents are in between the Scottish Islands and here in the Bristol channel we could generate 5 or 6 GWs much of the time. Hopefully that hydroelectric water storage, 30 Gwh would be awesome.

Don't think companies do fixed rate on these EV tariffs which are charging well less than 10 per kwh and probably will be in Q4, we tend not to hear until mid last month of the quarter. I think there might be capped rates for dual tariffs like Economy 7, 10 but they are not in the same league for cheapness as Octopus Go and intelligent Go and a couple of other similar tariff to those.

I only know one person with an actual company car which is a skoda nyak. He would get the 7p a mile I suppose. Have not seen he has a type 2 charger. Might have them where he works. His BIK is super low, £60 a month think he said. That will increase to £90 next year and then £120 year after that. Most people get a car allowance and claim the 45p per mile I would have thought, for the first 10k miles and then withdraw their car until it resets on April 6th we would do in HMCE. 25 p per mile is only enough if you have a Dacia or the like IMO.

They need to use satellite tech, have a word with Elon.

Electricity (single charge rate) cap to rise by 9 9% in less than 40 days time. Gas price to rise by 14%, ouch. Both standing daily charges to only go up a percent or so. Yet to see what Octopus, the UKs largest energy supplier is going to do. The extension of the super low price time period from 4 to 5 hours was and is fantastic. Had to reprogram some of the Zoes time slot charging profiles to just grab 1,2,3 or 4 hours so I just get the a nidge over 80% charged ie 200 miles range rather than change its lithium battery too close too 100%, or 103% where it actually goes I reckon with the 1.5 kwh hour extra buffers at bottom and top of reported.

Chargeplace Scotland join Octopus Electroverse I see. Just need Gridserve and Tesla public charging to do so also and very happy days.

Good to see diesel press moving on ... https://dieselcar.com/ecocar-electrified-top-50-announced/ He added “I am delighted to announce that the 2024 EcoCar Electrified Car of the Year is the outstanding Renault Scenic E-Tech, which also clinches the title of EcoCar Best Electric Medium SUV.” Table........... 20 Volkswagen ID.7 19 Vauxhall Corsa Best electric small car 18 Mercedes-Benz EQS 17 BMW 3 Series Best plug-in hybrid large car Best plug-in hybrid large estate car 16 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Best electric hot hatch 15 BMW 7 Series and i7 Best electric luxury car 14 BMW iX Best electric luxury SUV 13 Kia EV6 12 Hyundai Tucson 11 Renault Clio Best hybrid small car 10 Kia Sportage 9 BMW 5 Series and i5 Best electric executive car 8 Nissan Qashqai 7 Genesis GV60 6 Dacia Jogger Best hybrid estate car 5 Skoda Enyaq Best electric large SUV 4 MG4 Best electric medium car 3 Kia Niro Best plug-in hybrid medium SUV Best hybrid medium SUV 2 Lexus LBX Best hybrid compact SUV 1 Renault Scenic Electrified Car of the Year 2024 Best electric medium SUV