EV Owners Thread

bloodiedathame · 8 Nov 2017 at 14:37

Couldn't see a thread on the forums so thought I'd make one. Hopefully it can be a good place to discuss everything related to EV, hopefully debunk some myths and for people to find advice.

We're nearly a month into owning a Nissan Leaf (24kWh 2015 Acenta) and it's proving to be a great little car. I traded my old Renault in for £2k off the list price, and it's on PCP for 3 years. We've been slow charging on our drive from the 3 pin plug until yesterday when we had our 3.3kWh PodPoint installed (for free). Mrs is using it mostly to do the school run and short trips around the area.

Favourite feature so far is using the Climate Control feature of the app to preheat the car on the frosty mornings we've had.

bloodiedathame · 8 Nov 2017 at 18:21

Paying £150 a month. It costs about £3 for 80miles so about 5per mile. Breaks about even with my Renault running costs which was £120 a month fuel and £30 a month tax. Ish. Not too worried about the depreciation at this point as it's already had most of the hit taken on it. Can always give it back at the end of its worth nothing.

bloodiedathame · 8 Nov 2017 at 19:52

There's actually a pretty big demand right now, certainly growing. Some have said that used prices are actually going up! My Renault was worth nothing (seriously they gave me.£50 for it), so I'm doing my motoring for the same price in a newer car that will be worth more than £50 in three years time (I hope!).

bloodiedathame · 8 Nov 2017 at 20:17

Simon said:
Surely they gave you £2k for it

Well, that was the scrappage incentive, if I'd sold it second hand I would have got £150/200 for it.

bloodiedathame · 10 Nov 2017 at 09:34

kitkat9933 said:
67 Plate Tesla Model S 100D here.

Very nice, where do you charge it mostly?

bloodiedathame · 11 Nov 2017 at 19:48

Well, the Leaf is a pleasure to drive in traffic. It's automatic so no achey clutch leg, silent and in B mode (on our 2015) you probably won't even have to touch the brakes in traffic.

bloodiedathame · 21 Dec 2017 at 13:58

2blue4u said:
Browsing the forums, tapping my fingers, killing time.... Waiting on a Pod-Point install.

He’s late

That's a shame, mine was early!

What EV have you got?

bloodiedathame · 21 Dec 2017 at 18:58

2blue4u said:
He’s here now, making a hell of a noise. We have an Ioniq EV.

Nice! How long have you had it and what sort of range do you get?

bloodiedathame · 21 Dec 2017 at 19:45

Tom_ed1987 said:
Maybe i'm missing something but what's the point in the 3.3kwh PodPoint - you can draw about that from a standard UK socket.
Good car the Leaf.

It's slightly faster than a 3 pin. I'm a tightwad and didn't want to pay £100 for the 7kwh. Especially with technology moving as fast as it is. Suits our needs fine; park on drive overnight, charge, ready to go in the morning. The Podpoint is mounted on the wall but the granny charger (3pin) we had to tuck inside the garage after every use which was a bit of a pain.

bloodiedathame · 8 Jun 2018 at 11:23

It's a bit crap isn't it. I've seen long wait times on the new Leaf too.

bloodiedathame · 9 Jun 2018 at 14:21

I wonder if they are hoping that people will retrofit motors and batteries to the petrol and diesel engined cars they already own. I'd consider it on my Golf estate if the price was right.

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