1000mi & 1000kWh for £100

Tiamat21

Tiamat21

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For the past two months (November and October) my leccy with Octopus has been ~£100.

Both those months I’ve travelled about 1000 miles each month and the kWh used has been around 1000.

It’s bonkers how cheap it is to run an ev even during the colder months.
 
Uther said:
How much did the EV cost to buy, and how much would those 1000 miles be at a public charger, both financially and in loss of time?
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Don’t charge at a public charger, just like I don’t live in the middle of nowhere and have to drive 10 miles to the nearest pump. Both these examples exist but are irrelevant to this situation.

You can have a Nissan leaf for under £4k if you don’t need the range and there’s a lot of 250 miles range Teslas for sub £15k.

Point is if you have a drive the money saved on running costs (not just the car) is becoming harder to ignore.

For reference everyone else is paying over double for their home electricity.
 
Tiamat21 said:
Don’t charge at a public charger, just like I don’t live in the middle of nowhere and have to drive 10 miles to the nearest pump. Both these examples exist but are irrelevant to this situation.

You can have a Nissan leaf for under £4k if you don’t need the range and there’s a lot of 250 miles range Teslas for sub £15k.

Point is if you have a drive the money saved on running costs (not just the car) is becoming harder to ignore.

For reference everyone else is paying over double for their home electricity.
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Well there you go. I can't charge at home, and have a petrol station 200 metres away, looks like I'll be sticking with my sub £15k 400 mile range 2 seater then.
Shame.
 
Uther said:
Well there you go. I can't charge at home, and have a petrol station 200 metres away, looks like I'll be sticking with my sub £15k 400 mile range 2 seater then.
Shame.
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That is a shame.

I’d be on to my councillor/MP asking about cable gutters if you’re remotely close to your car.

I know if I could save £1200 a year on running costs alone (average year mileage of 8000) and maybe an additional £400 from a better tariff I’d be making my voice heard.
 
Oh this is gonna be such a fun thread.



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Diddums said:
Oh this is gonna be such a fun thread.



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I mean I posted on another online space and got responses like “woah” or “that’s insane” so maybe the “fun” isn’t here. Kinda hard to stay positive with comments like “k” or immediate anti ev tropes.

Genuinely surprised how much the Daily Mail slant has taken hold.
 
Tiamat21 said:
I see you didn’t say the same thing about the recent BMW M3 thread.

Wonder why you singled this one out…
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Lower quality.

Journey said:
To be fair, why should there only be one EV thread? Should we ban all other threads about cars as well?
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Could use an electric charging cost thread perhaps similar to the petrol thread.
 
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Tiamat21 said:
That is a shame.

I’d be on to my councillor/MP asking about cable gutters if you’re remotely close to your car.

I know if I could save £1200 a year on running costs alone (average year mileage of 8000) and maybe an additional £400 from a better tariff I’d be making my voice heard.
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Seems like a complete faff to save such an amount. I suppose I could spend hours of my life doing it but it seems like an awful lot of work to save basically what is a weekend away in cash.
Glad it's works for you though.
I don't mind more EV threads, but the main one might be more of a 'safe space' with a lot more electric enthusiasts.
 
Uther said:
Seems like a complete faff to save such an amount. I suppose I could spend hours of my life doing it but it seems like an awful lot of work to save basically what is a weekend away in cash.
Glad it's works for you though.
I don't mind more EV threads, but the main one might be more of a 'safe space' with a lot more electric enthusiasts.
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If £1200 - £1600 is a cool weekend away for you then monthly running cost is probably a minor afterthought for you :cry:
 
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