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Yet if you receive no pence per miles compensation, because you get both a car allowance and fuel card (choose between diesel, electricity and petrol), then the self assessment form seems to suggest you can claim the difference between 45p per mile for the first 10k, and one is getting zero due to the car allowance and card, so that is 20% or 40% of the 45p it seems to work out on the Self Assessment software ie 9p or 18p a mile which is good to going to pay towards all the other car running overhead ie service, tyres, business user insurance etc.

Cheaper rate for AC? Is ionic only 7 kW or 11,16,22,43 AC capable?

Finally Allstar company "fuel" card now includes Gridserve so that EV company car users can use chargers that have a decent (85%) spread across the Motorway network. Electrical energy is treated same as diesel, LPG and petrol fuel for tax purposes so if using the medium/high powered chargers the tax would be about 10p kWh for the 20% band tax payers, 20p per kWh for higher rate tax payers. Should boost the use of Gridserve chargers though I hear lots of complaints about users only get 33/35 kWh rather than 60 kWh or so. As a Zoe user the 22 kWh 39p sounds one of the best prices out there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The new pricing across the GRIDSERVE Electric Highway chargers is as follows: Standalone Low Power AC Chargers : 39p/kWh Electric Forecourts® : 45p/kWh Medium Power Chargers : 48p/kWh High Power Chargers : 50p/kWh

Because the standing charge, at least in part, pays for the bailouts of those, 29 so far, failed energy providers. Which I think is wrong as the government allowed this "chancers" to trade and leave debt and stranded customers so they should have arranged insurance, paid by the new supplier themselves, I reckon. Standing charges are heading to upwards too but much slower than the actual energy rates. I did not realize so many are on pre-payment ie about 4.5M households and they pay a rate a penny or two higher and if those on pre-payment are low volume users ie say 5 kWh per pay or less, the standing charge effectively is making their per unit charge more than 60p per kWh. I can see houses do what I have seen in several Asian countries ie supplying neighbours via trailing leads and getting payment from them, or supplying relatives for free etc, I could sell night time lecky at say 20p per kWh that I have paid 5p, soon to be 7.5p per kWh and make a tidy profit. Saves them as the could be paying 40p kWh or over that.

As well as Dinorwig (2 GW x 5 hours) and a few smaller pump storage facilities in other parts of the UK there are more and more battery storage facilities and it is becoming super profitable. The Gridserve electric courtyards each have several MWh of storage so they can download Giga-Joules of energy, soon to be Terra-joules as a business at 4p per kWh to then sell to those EV drivers at 50p per kWh, cracking business. Then also have the solar on the roof and then fields next to the electric courtyard to add a bit of jam on top as well, nice. At home thousands of is are doing the same. Buying ever larger battery storage, downloading cheap power at night, 5p or 7.5p or thereabouts , gather solar during the day and running our cars and homes on mostly very cheap lecky and being ready for brown and black outs should they come this winter.

Happy to be using a supplier who just sells renewable power generated (or matches them off). I see Bjorn Nyland has taken to hauling an Ecoflow max 2 kWh battery with him, deliberately running out and recharge using the ecoflow, only get 11 km from that 2 kWh filling an efficient Tesla.

I will be paying 40p per kWh for the 20 hours of non off peak but I expect to only use a third of my lecky downloaded in the more expensive period. I will load up my 1.8 kWh battery in my larger solar generator as well some of the 400 Wh, 150 Wh and 100 Wh ones I have and they will power most of the houses devices during the day ie fridge-freezer, laptop, router, phone, probably TV and Sky box, various Alexa devices, stand lights and anything else I can think of, even small electrical radiators. No word from Octopus yet on the Flexible gads price which is currently 7.5p kWh but I expect that to go to about 14 p kWh ie bit less than the Big 6 if they charge 15p kWh for gas.

Nahhh, driving my Zoe, charging it overnight on my Octopus 7p per kWh tariff, which works out about 2p per mile lecky cost, super cheapy. Must try and use my £10 of Electric Juice, now called Electric Universe, that £10 get you a lot of Rapid charging but good for emergency and at last test my Rapid Charge CCS DC charging pins. Not needed it in the first 8k of driving as only needed my home and a bit of destination charge (always free) through I have broken two of those crappy Rolec post charging posts which seem to be very fragile.

Octopus to quite a nice PDF 11 page on the subject. BIK gone up 2% of the car value this tax year and staying there until 2025/26 at least, supposedly....... Cars registered from 6 April 2020: CO2 (g/km) Electric range (miles) 2021-22 (%) 2022-23 (%) 2023/24 (%) 2024/25 (%) 0 N/A 1 2 2 2 Octopus do a nice package with it all though with a home wall charger, 5,000 miles of free lecky etc. ev salary sacrifice.pdf

I cannot comment on how awkward a Zoe is to service by a technician by as to having one I find it a delight, not perfect, ie the lack of up and down seat adjustment is a big out as someone who is 6ft 1' it is usually the first thing I adjust when getting in a car. The Zoe Ze50 usually seems to come out as the small EV with the longest range in the small EV category. Well over 200 miles in the summer 230-24) and 150 miles in the winter. It charges fast than a Telsa or any other EV on AC, I have not used the DC charging yet in 8k miles as have not needed to as either charge it at 5p per kWh at home or for free at work at Heathrow. The 10 inch Google maps screen is excellent and nothing has gone wrong with the car in the first year of ownership. Glad I chose the Zoe when I hear of all the range issues with other small EVs. Renault dealer here is excellent, seem better than the Skoda dealership which is the same group but just more friendly and better value oddly for the same group. The Skoda Fabia I have unfortunately has the design flawed 1.4 TDI with its issues with cooling system. Very good on diesel but the cooling issue has proven expensive for thermostat and water pump replacement at only 25k miles. I have another broken seat height adjuster break in the Fabia, that is both sides now, very poor design and quality of seat adjuster. It is suppose to have Apple Play/ Andoid auto but that seems to work once in blue moon as is so fickle. A decade, two or three ago I would and have always had Skodas, more than a dozen, often VRS or L&Ks, they were great value a solid cars. Worst Skoda I had was probably the mark 1 Superb, handled like a barge, good 1.9 pd engine in it though. Now, given me a Renault over a Skoda, (maybe with the exception of the Enyaq RS Coupe), every day of the week.

It will be cabin filter and the 50 point or so inspection, tyre kicking thing. Want to keep up the fsh and now due to get the Megane e for a couple of days when it hit our shores. The YouTuber Battery Life seem to say it stacked up well against his ID3. 220 hp megane EV a little tame off the line with it being over controlled and slightly slower than rwd ID3 despite more power.

Happy for the first service for the Zoe at £99, incl VAT. Clio TCE 0.9, only 3 cylinders, needs to go in for a B service so plugs change and air filter as well as oil and filter, £257, hmm. Running cost so far in 8k miles about £100 cost of electricity. Overall running cost then pretty damn low. PCP payment £288 a month. Cheap motoring. Works car allowance 9k a year before tax. Shame my company does not do EV salary sacrifice. Oh and Skoda Fabia just cost me £750 for cambelt, thermostat and water-pump replacing, thank God it is zero tax and 75 mpg else that would be going out for sale.

My brother's new build with Heat Pump seems to be very good though he has not done the cold winter yet but as it was purpose built ie underfloor heating down stairs and large diameter flow pipe and big radiators upstairs I think it was just one bedroom that was not as warm as it should be and radiator (mis named as they are really convectors) fans to help get the heat round the room I reckon. Perhaps paint the radiator (convectors) matt black in honour of Stephan Boltzman. Formula = black-body radiant emittance = Stefan-Boltzmann constant = thermodynamic temperature Stefan-Boltzmann law states that the amount of radiation emitted by a black body per unit area is directly proportional to the fourth power of the temperature. According to the Stefan-Boltzmann law, σ has a value of 5.670374419 × 10−8 watt per square meter per kelvin to the fourth (W / (m2 x K4).

Indeed. All Riviera and GT line of the ZE50 come with CCS but it was an option on the lower spec IONIC model and some came with and some without but the PCP was the same for both with and without so UK buyers buying on PCP clearly went for CCS ones and hence non CCS UK are quite rare but fine if one is a commuter and does not want to use the Zoe for long trips or is prepared to drive at 50 mph, or less, and get up to 300 miles range and then wait 2,3,4,5 hours to charge. There are some 16 and 22 kw chargers tucked away in some out of the way places and not on ZAP Map but just rock up and change for free whilst having a visit to the restaurant and us the 16 kw chargers, this might change I suppose as lecky get stupidly pricey. Leaf and Ground in Dursley Gloucestershire has been one such place.

This time of the year even my heavy footed offspring gets 4 miles per kWh and I tend to get closer to 5 miles per kWh. Just signed up for Octopus Go renewal so 7.5p per kWh will be my new price in mid September but hoping the VAT is removed by then so it will be about 7p per kWh so still less than 2p per mile for us in the Zoe. Octopus giving £10 in free Octopus Juice credit so it looks like I might finally try the CCS port to get that free power.

The more I watch this fellow the more I feel he is not that bright and just interested in getting hits on his youtube. I have done nearly 8k miles and not used by CCS charging port. Mine is the very top spec Zoe similar to a GT line. The PCP for CCS fitted Zoe's was very similar to non-CCS fitted Zoes and my Riviera comes with it as standard. If it was an option and I was paying cash I would have seriously considered no DC charging. A near £1k option, if a choice, some people will never use. Me, it is good to have as a back up and even if I only use half a dozen times in my 4 year lease then OK but as I said no actual choice on my model and PCPs similar where there is. Renault do these things based on market research etc and it sound sensible to me. Just hope 22 kw chargers, as well as the 11 and 16 kw ones stick around. With the damage (fast) DC charging does to the battery and the high cost of it I will only use it as an absolute minimum. Zoe ensures no more than 125A of current is allowed to hit the battery pack so the actually 45 kw charge rate is only there at around the 50%-75% SOC ie when the voltage gets up to about 375v and as the pack nears 400v the amperage drops to under 100 A and this is partly why Zoe batteries stay healthier longer than many other makes. I have got to the point of ignoring EV Nick video.

Alpine strategy can sometimes be as bad as Ferraris. Surprised Alonso, as a working class hero, is OK with working for a team who employs a driver as he is owner Dad's son rather than his talent, or lack of it.

This looks quite a good deal and can be controlled for 6,8,10 and 13 amperes...... Actually several granny chargers in the £159 to £200 range some with variable charging at different amperes. I want one to link with my solar generator so I can run my Zoe on sunshine but some solar generators are only 2000w invertors so 8 amps would be about it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Charging-Adjustable-Current-Waterproof-13A-UK-3PIN-5M-Controllable/dp/B09Q8HLZ21/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?adgrpid=106305645793&gclid=Cj0KCQjw852XBhC6ARIsAJsFPN0EWR-mYvwYA0TIXQQsJofKTWjVWSTFgCd5rQX754z9ml-B9j3MCVAaAqDIEALw_wcB&hvadid=606046703649&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045569&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=13222935411644537395&hvtargid=kwd-967122635169&hydadcr=26584_2698127&keywords=3+pin+to+type+2+charging+cable&qid=1659350484&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyWUpIU0hDVzdSTERaJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjE4NTIwMkpCSU5HMThSRUE2TyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNDE3ODY4WjgwOFNZV1ZVOVNFJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

Got my granny from screw fix. Used several times and seems good in all respects and can use with a heavy duty extension lead. I think it was£139 Inc vat.

Which is such a scary proposition as there are so many different Type 2 cables and it is surely critical one gets to match the cars onboard charger spec ie 7,11,16,22,43 kw. I think 11,16,22 and 43 are all 3 phase so that Type 2 is considerably wider girth. Sometime I could do with a 10M type 2 instead of 5 to 6 metre which does reach the works charge 2 or 3 parking bays away and then I have to be a pain and ask workmates to move their cars. I always like to carry a spare type 2 as I have had the charge post refuse to unlock my cable and almost had to leave without it then the works electrician would have to arrange to have it send back to me once the release had been done so I end up carrying 3 sometime ie two type 2 and the granny !

Yes well over £3k for the cap is looking likely now we have more months to base the rise on ie £3.2k but taking VAT would bring it down close to £3k. Still £250 a month when many have been use to £100 to £150 pm. Presumably it will be one of the first things Liz/Rishi will do in September but energy companies cannot assume it is going to happen and will have to wait until it does when setting Direct Debits for the anticipated annualised cost of energy for the house hold. So may average annual bills of £250 pm rather than £263. Still massive and if one is unlucky enough to renewing a two year fixed interest mortgage that extra £100 a month energy bill could be accompanied with an extra hundred or two mortgage costs and in addition to an extra hundred or two on ones monthly shopping bill so some will be looking at another £500 a month in out going on these 3 elements and new PM is only really helping with one of these and only with half the anticipated rise ie £400 bung place £160 on no VAT change.

Good news from Rishi Sunak, which hopefully Liz will have to match, and that is to remove the VAT from home energy bills. So home charging would be 5% cheaper. Hopefully in time for when the cost of electricity takes a hike for many of us in September/October. Could mean £160 less on a years energy bill.

The EV grant did not exceed the VAT been collected on the car so I think UK government was still getting a net tax receipt from the sale even with the EV grant considered. Make EVs perhaps 5% VAT or zero VAT no there is no EV grant. Target to reduce carbon in to the atmosphere has to be driven forward as fast as we can financial do so and as I say above I do not think EV are currently making sense now. Not sure how many companies actually provide cars as the predominant action is to give a car allowance which has its own drawback as my £9k pa car allowance, as everyone else's would to, get mullered by tax so you only get £424 pm or £499 taking out the tax and NI which means Tesla are out of cost range unless one has a car allowance of £1K pm plus. I tried to get a Nissan LEAF 64 kWh about a year ago but there hardly any new ones around and dealers were trying to palm me off with the very low range 40 kWh version which was no good for me so I felt I had to go abroad. Now with no grant and much worse finance deals, whilst good ones remain on ICE cars, I cannot see me buying a full EV next unless VAT is dropped or EV grant re-instated. This what petrol should cost and can cost in Devon and Cornwall.

Perhaps neither until the EV car grants are restored which I hope and expect they will be. EVs are starting to look expensive again and bad value compared to their ICE-hybrid stable mates. I am pricing up an Megane-e against an Arkana and the Arkana is probably much better value if one can live with 0-60 of around 10 seconds rather than the 7 seconds of the pure EV but then you get twice the range in the hybrid and with petrol prices falling like a stone the running costs are narrowing and the 10K premium of the EV, for a slightly smaller car, if it worth it. One can get 0% finance on the Hybrid but not on the EV. The UK is out of step with the rest of the world and the phasing out of the EV grant has made the choice of ice/hybrid over EV difficult on financial grounds if not the moral ground.

If and when faced with such prices I just back off the crusiing speed from 70 mph to around 50/55 mph and hence improved my miles per kWh from 4-ish to 5 miles kWh plus change my route to a more direct A and B road route so I either do not have to stop as my range goes up from about 200 miles to 250 mile so that I either do not need to stop only have to take the bare smallest number of kWh from those expensive on route chargers. Ventured as far as Gatwick and Heathrow from Worcester and still not paid a penny to on route charging having only ever use cheap home charging or free destination charging at client or work destination chargers and long may it continue both for my pocket and the Zoe's battery life health.