Electric Vehicles

[admin]

Thanks LP, that was a useful read.

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[Luckypants]

/Smug mode on

Thanks to the solar panels, my car cost 2.8p/mile last month for 834 miles. It hasn't even been a good month for solar generation, yet can make big dents in the cost. The headline figure is also helped by my new Tracker electricity tariff, which has averaged 16.5p/kWh in July.

[Luckypants]

Dredging this up from the past for a quick update.

In September last year we went to France in our EV. We were going to a wedding near Nice. We could have flown down and back for similar money and just gone for the wedding, but neither of us is comfortable with the carbon footprint of flying and won't fly again unless absolutely necessary. Taking the EV made us feel better about the CO2 situation as France's grid is very low carbon due to lots of hydro and nuclear. We made it into a 20 day tour of France in the end to make the most of having our wheels. Suffice to say we had a great time and our VW ID.4 was flawless. The whole trip of about 2500 miles was an absolute breeze.

The finance plan on the ID.4 came to an end in May and we decided to keep it as we like it so much. We might have downsized into an ID.3 or similar (Golf sort of size) as due to their construction, pure EVs are more roomy. We think the ID.4 is too big really despite it having practically the same external dimensions as our previous car. We didn't change it as there weren't any good deals around at the time. Depending how things pan out, we might end up running this until retirement in 5 years or so.

We'd hate to go back to an ICE car now as our main vehicle.