Soldato
Brill can I borrow the £45k for the car and the £15k for the solar then thanksI wouldn’t buy a fossil car full stop - Get that nasty tail pipe pollution off our streets !
Plugging an EV in when you get home and allowing the system to work out the best time to charge it, based on your SOC and cost preferences, is really no hassle. You will wake up with it charged regardless of when the charge starts.
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Then add the £30 to charge for the 190miles of range average for an EV when not home charging on an EV tariff since I'm away from home 3 nights a week doing over 100 miles day average means I'm paying as much if not more to charge compared to a tank of desiel.
It's even more if need to charge when out at averaging 83p per kWh so a standard charge out and about at a stop is £60.59 for a 73kWh vehicle that does 190-240miles depending on how cold outside it is.
Then add in the emissions then, I can buy a second hand car that is basically carbon neutral as the 2nd hand buyer at around £15-£20k for a reasonably new and I'll mid spec vehicle compared to purchase a new vehicle that certainly cost more and has a larger carbon footprint in production then. If 40% of energy is from non-green energy then that's still a large % carbon footprint again. It would take a long time to break even on being carbon equal to the second hand ICE option at a fraction of a price.
You also need to consider the cost carbon wise for the manufacture and installation of solar, storage and such. That also isn't carbon natural. Yes it had a % to cover your general electric use + charging but if you look at those figures it is many years (the lifetime of the battery before replacement) to equal carbon neutrality.
If you can afford solar and a larger range vehicle circa £60k+ then yeah course it makes sense in terms of helping move towards a more carbon netural living. That isn't a luxury a large % of the population that is capable of doing though.
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