When are you going fully electric?

squerble said:
My partner has an aging Micra that she uses for a work commute every day. I get the train for the 2-3 days a week I'm in the office.
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Why are they using the Micra when you have a BEV that costs a fraction of the price to fuel? That’s mad.

Sell the Micra :D

We sold our second car now we both get the train when we have to go into the office. Kept the BEV not the ICE mind.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Why are they using the Micra when you have a BEV that costs a fraction of the price to fuel? That’s mad.

Sell the Micra :D

We sold our second car now we both get the train when we have to go into the office. Kept the BEV not the ICE mind.
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Mostly a complete lack of trust of her colleagues to not crash into/damage the car in a very tight car park at her workplace :eek:
 
The Buzz is my likely next choice. Got a diesel Vito Tourer and love it, just suits us with baby, dog etc

Prices not on my salary sacrifice yet but i hope its cheaper than the crazy EQV. Only other choices are the EQB or the Peugeot van thing
 
If it helps you then here are the monthlies on all three from mine - note these are 10k per annum, no deposit, fully insured and maintained etc

Pug e rifter thing £390 pm
Pug e traveller £540 pm (lol)
Eqb 300 £550pm (lol)
ID Buzz £600pm (lol)
 
Hah, yeah, if its that level I wont be going for it

The Peugeot Citroen is just under £300 on my list, thats the lwb version but the range isnt great (The Peugeot is cheap too but no lwb i think)
The EQV is £500 for the cheaper one and up to £600 for the top spec, Id consider it if the range was better, but hey ho
The EQB might be a bit too small, but its around £430ish for whatever bottom spec one it is, I just cant remember

Im hoping the Buzz is under the EQV but maybe unlikely :)
 
Eqv £880 on mine, tend to find anything in short supply or particularly popular rockets up to funny money until the next quota comes around

E Space £480
 
Had my first pretty miserable EV experience today. My fault entirely, though. I was doing a 100 mile round trip today. I had planned to charge the car on 3-pin Thursday but then got my dates wrong and needed my E43 to do a 200 mile round trip. Thursday was chaos (single parenting / M1 chaos / trying to get my kid at 1715 - had to break a few guideline laws :D ) so I only managed to get the Pug plugged in on Friday evening. Ended up just charging over night to get me to about 176 miles on the range estimate.

I thought I was quids in but have now confirmed Waze is often garbage with its initial distance estimate (try it yourself - until you click "navigate" it seems to be just roughly right). This was way off - I was actually doing a 150 mile round trip with only 176 on the range.

I left the "event" I was at to go to a Tesco about 10 miles away and plugged in. I didn't realise how slow even the 7kW chargers are. It probably could have "done me" but I was worried the range estimate was just pure make belief and wanted more than a 10 mile insurance policy. Gave up and decided to risk it: range estimate 76 miles; Waze said 73 miles to destination.

Ended up bottling it a bit up the M1 with range showing <20 miles. 2 chargers later at South Mimms (all broken) I managed to get on a fast charger. And wow, these things are epic. But such an annoying "arse about face" day because of the EV. All in all, 76 miles took me 3 hours versus the regular hr and a half/ hr and 40.

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edit: it peaked at almost 100kW hour IIRC.
 
Planning is key. And always have a plan B or plan C.

Why did you need so many kwh just to get home ? Fast chargers are great for a 5-10 min bump just to make sure you get home. But hate waiting any longer
 
Simon said:
Planning is key. And always have a plan B or plan C.

Why did you need so many kwh just to get home ? Fast chargers are great for a 5-10 min bump just to make sure you get home. But hate waiting any longer
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Went and had a KFC to cheer myself up

:cry:

Edit: I also have literally no idea how much money I've given them. I just plugged in and tapped a card.
 
chanjy said:
KFC, ended up at an Instavolt then? What brand were the broken ones if I may enquire
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Grid Serve. One machine out of action "someone has pressed the emergency stop, twist it and see if that fixes it" - it didn't. Then there was another Grid Serve being used that connected to the car but when I tapped my card would just nope out.

I then saw some other chargers in what used to be the disabled bays opposite Pizza Express and they only had 1 bay down out of about 6. That plugged in, tapped my card, and worked perfectly (the one pictured).

I've no idea what brand that was though. You didn't need an app or any messing about.
 
If that isn’t a sales pitch for a proper home charger, I don’t know what is :p (your moving aren’t you?). Sure you can manage on a 3 pin most of the time but if you do two higher milage days in and row and you’ll run into problems.

Those gridserve charger have 2 plugs and 2 spaces but it can only charge one car at a time, it only has enough grid to do one.

South mimms now has apple green branded chargers, they own welcome break. It can get very busy at peak times, you’ll fine Tesla’s on the apple green and gridserve chargers because the super chargers are full.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
If that isn’t a sales pitch for a proper home charger, I don’t know what is :p (your moving aren’t you?). Sure you can manage on a 3 pin most of the time but if you do two higher milage days in and row and you’ll run into problems.

Those gridserve charger have 2 plugs and 2 spaces but it can only charge one car at a time, it only has enough grid to do one.

South mimms now has apple green branded chargers, they own welcome break. It can get very busy at peak times, you’ll fine Tesla’s on the apple green and gridserve chargers because the super chargers are full.
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That was it - they were Apple Green chargers. And you are also correct in that the Gridserve had someone drawing juice hence why it didn't work. Where do you learn all this lol? The lady who was connected to the Gridserve didn't say a word as she sat in the car next to me watching countless people try.

I think we got lucky at South Mimms overall. I was pretty "blunt" to my family as I rapidly tried to move from the broken Gridserve to the Apple Green as I saw someone pull out. Not an ideal day out!

However, with all that said - key lesson learnt was for a garbage Saturday drive (M1/M25/Dartford crossing) the EV is perfect, and I think I must have saved 75 quid. I sat doing 56 in the slow lane and commented how cross I would have been in the E43 as the M1 was full of knob heads doing not much quicker than me in Lane 3.
 
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