Enjoy.

... I'm talking about the ones nowhere near the motorway, in residential areas, with 5 to 10 bays selling electricity at motorway rates, i.e. 4 or 5 times a regular home tarrif. Unsurprisingly at that price they seem to be less than 5% utilised. Seems to me that at that rate the whole model is goin...

Nerdy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:27 pm I think it's the original battery

5 years or so. Are they allowed to be tired after that?


You'll have noted that the traction battery topping up the 12V battery is configurable - "optimise battery use" IIRC and AIUI it only happens when the car gets woken up.

How old is the battery?

Our overnight charging prices are cheaper than available in most places though. ... I didn't know that - it surprises me. Why do you think that is? I would have thought they would have been more expensive as well. Because only a small proportion of our electricity comes from gas (oil and coal) whic...

When our car was 3 years old I did not pay to renew the VW breakdown service but took out a separate breakdown policy (UK and Europe) with the RAC. What would happen if I pressed the emergency call button above the rear view mirror now? Or indeed if I have an accident and the car calls the emergenc...

Re the discussion on price per kwh and comparison with other countries its important to remember the UK has I believe the highest electricity prices in Europe. Until that changes (I can hope/dream) its always going to be relatively expensive here I think. Make more electricity. Burn less gas. Given...

Sherlock wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:59 pm Re the discussion on price per kwh and comparison with other countries its important to remember the UK has I believe the highest electricity prices in Europe. Until that changes (I can hope/dream) its always going to be relatively expensive here I think.

Make more electricity. Burn less gas.

Thanks. I'm asking how you arrive at 40p. ....as opposed to 20p, 30p, 70p, etc. "Fast charging in France, with surplus electricity, is 40p per kWh (E0.44) which with some effort I suspect we are heading for. " Perhaps phrasing it as Fast charging in France, with surplus electricity, which...

I very rarely use public charging. Think I’ve only used it 4 times in almost 3 years. Would the Octopus Electroverse be useful to me so that I don’t need to use my debit card and pay these authorisation fees? .... Whether Electroverse takes a reserve i don't know, I've not noticed it. As a general ...

If you want a strange idea, SOTON is a port, you can sail ships, barges, etc, full of containerised batteries in and plug them in to power the city and the port. Not the handiest way, but containerised loads are very fungible. If there isn't somewhere nearby with excess capacity at some stages of th...

... regrettable hard facts. Southampton doesn't have the grid capacity for more shore powering. Take a look at the WightLink ferry operator's plans for carbon reduction https://www.wightlink.co.uk/community/environment/zero-carbon - not one mention of Southampton. Although Red Funnel are going to i...

...The port of Southampton has several cruise ship terminals, only one of which has a shore power connection facility, but it cannot be used at full power at all times because the grid can't supply that load in addition to that of loca ... trying to add the tens of Megawatts of capacity needed to g...

Fast charging in France, with surplus electricity, is 40p per kWh (E0.44) which with some effort I suspect we are heading for. What's the basis for expecting 40p per KWh in the UK....I mean is it based on some specialist insight you have or just wishful thinking like the rest of us ? :) We are head...

Sounds a good trip.
It would be interesting to know how the maintenance arrangements for the stations differ, if they do.
The 22kW chargers are 11kW for us IIUIC, so OK for a rather long dinner or an overnight stay but sub-optimal for moving on.

Either are the cars had my id3 family pro 2 years now and is ok currently can charge at home but am moving into a retirement village so got to public charge so will be going back to petrol so much easier than the hassle of finding a charger that actually works so this country no where near and why ...

There are two real issues... The second issue is that EVs mean a net increase in inelastic electricity consumption. ...a world of on-street parking and using DC public charging like a petrol station means we need more despatchable electricity supply. We can do that by burning fossil fuels, like the...

In the interest of balance I don't think range anxiety is 'nonsensical'. It is probably the main reason for poor adoption. It's great for commuting but long journeys at the weekend or holidays is a different story. I recently embarked on a trip to see relatives in Scotland (331 miles) in my 77kwh L...

I suspect that in 10 years: Batteries will have twice the capacity per volume without large increases in weight; Batteries as above will cost no more than half what they cost now; two to 200 times as many places will remove and fit them competently; So for a quarter of the current cost you could rep...

... ... as I look around our estate, there are not more than a dozen EVs, in fact there's a vocal opposition to them from some of our neighbours. Roll on 2025! Rob Wild supposition: your neighbours buy second or third hand cars. EV sales have tended to be first cars. 2-4 years later, the supply of ...