When are you going fully electric?

SDK^ said:
OLEV grants changed as of 7am today.

Car rates:
  • From 35% of purchase price, up to £3,000
  • To: 35% of purchase price, up to £2,500

  • From: Cars must cost less than £50,000. This is the recommended retail price (RRP), and includes VAT and delivery fees.
  • To: Cars must cost less than £35,000. This is the recommended retail price (RRP), and includes VAT and delivery fees.

  • No grace period. Orders already placed prior to today can be claimed at original rate

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/..._1L6Cnzwm1DAgEH52ev5b_QaAgwENeLVk-_-u8qY1xdOs
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Good
 
The government are incentivising people to buy EV's because they need to reduce CO2 emissions. There's 2 ways to do this - make the dirty options more expensive or make clean options cheaper. At the moment they're going with the make clean options cheaper. There is a financial benefit to the country for reducing CO2 emissions - otherwise the government wouldn't do it!
 
Simon said:
Putting your foot down and lifting off enough so there’s no more accel and no regen is actually quite hard compared to an ice which will just roll.
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so seems M3 et al ? do have a neutral setting(right stick) where you disable both regen and drive ? if you want the equivalent of an ICE coast, with foot off accelerator/fuel-off ...
presumably reverts to drive if you press accelerator. (some mansplaining diatribe https://youtu.be/EperD_EaLFY?t=124)

have a ~1km A road section to a set of lights where I know the light timings, and coast;
need that as a geo-tagged ev behaviour, or under voice control.
 
chroniclard said:
Not sure £500 difference will sway many people to a cheaper EV.
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It won't, but the manufacturers might now miraculously offer more models below £35k as they try to hit their targets, lets see how many of the cars priced at £38k+, now have options starting at £34999 OTR. :)
 
VincentHanna said:
Why are there so many cars that don't quality for the grant then?

Model 3 Performance
Volvo XC40
Mercedes EQC
Audi E-tron
Jaguar i-pace
Tesla Model S
Porsche Taycan
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Those were always going to be in a >£50k market. He's right though, in that prices will obviously be manipulated by manufacturers to make the most of grants. That's kind of the point.
 
Journey said:
It won't, but the manufacturers might now miraculously offer more models below £35k as they try to hit their targets, lets see how many of the cars priced at £38k+, now have options starting at £34999 OTR.
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good point
stops the manufacturers charging too much premium, reduces trade imbalance created by imported cars; probably hits residuals a bit
 
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