It takes me 15 seconds to plug in my EV when I park up in front of my house.(yes I have timed it! )
I do not have to drive to a petrol station, possibly queue for a pump, select my fuel and enter my card details, take petrol cap off and insert pump, hold lever until tank is full, replace petrol cap and the petrol pump to their respective places, remember to remove card from pump, wipe up the foul smelling liquid that has dripped on my shoes. Restart the car and drive back onto the road to continue my life where left off.
EDIT But letâs be honest, itâs not about shaving a few seconds off refuelling times or a few quid off running costs. The point of EVs is to stop killing innocent bystanders with toxic emissions or reducing the demand for oil extraction which is destroying our environment.
as and when EVâs become financially available, OH and I will be seriously looking at acquiring one. Until that time we use the petrol car as efficiently and cleanly as we possibly can.
and we drive carefully, keeping our distance, not exceeding speed limits, no alcohol or drugs etc etc⊠thus avoiding killing innocent bystanders/other drivers/etc etc
Same here ! I donât need an electric car for my short trips, but I do for long ones. So Iâm putting it off, waiting for the range claim to improve and prices to dropâwhich is the way things go, and we learn to be patient !
I am a keen hiker, and I have my groceries delivered for âŹ6 by the nearest SuperU, which is 13 km away. Itâs eco-friendly, economical, and it gives me time to do something more interesting than grocery shopping⊠like brownsing on SV
It happened today, just in front of Monoprix - Perigueux (a shop I know well).. and, quite naturally, it got reported in the local press. Nothing biased, just local reporting which has coincided with todayâs discussions re ~EV on the forum.
It also mentions that another car, plugged in just in front of this vehicle.. was undamagedâŠ
no bias, just local reporting on events as they happen.
Iâm certainly not saying they are⊠each incident has a cause and knowing the cause will surely be the first step to improvement in whatever sort of vehicle the problem arises.. and/or if it is User Error (?)
A friend got a EV for 3 yrs rental on a I think cheap gouvernement scheme. Have you looked into it? I remember you wrote about the cost of filling up the car recently.
Yeah I have thanks Wozza, because Iâm.a contractual they were arsy about me having it as my contract is CDD. Also I was pretty disappointed about the offerings and what the real cost came up to with the compulsory bits. A colleague had told me about it as he was lucky enough to get the 2024 round and he paid 100âŹ/ month all in for his fiat 600. I was offered an awful panda, only in red, lowest spec, nasty steel wheels and would have cost I think 180âŹ
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