Day 1: Who has an Electric Vehicle, either Electric Car for home, or Electric Van for Work?

[Steve-S]

I’ve got PV and a small battery storage system as well, so I think EV would be good… but it’s the cost of a new vehicle just now.

When its new van time it has to an an EV with such a setup. By then the prices will be more competitive.

 

[woodster92]

Day 1: Who has an Electric Vehicle, either Electric Car for home, or Electric Van for Work?

I thought I'd post my threads in the forums that I hope to grow a bit more, so I'm trying to steer my threads towards those ones.

So my first question / thread is this.

Now electric vehicles are leaving their mark all over the country, the charging station network is growing, a friend has a Tesla, another has a Nissan Electric Van, another a Kia electric something or other. And they're working I think. They say they're charging over night at home, sometime in a day if they go far they may need half an hour on a high-capacity charging station before heading home.

I went to pick up a Land Rover with a friend, who has a tesla and wanted the land rover for the long distance runs (he delivers super-computer parts to Pinewood Studios in London and various other companies) but he said 75% of the runs he does in the tesla.

He put it through his VAT-registered business which there are still subsidies for if you hunt around a bit.

So I think I've asked this before and it wasn't a brilliant response. But I wonder now its been a few more years, whether things have changed.

Has anybody got an electric car for home, or electric van for work? - And if so, how are you finding them? What model is it? Where are you charging it?

This is my day 1 of 5 threads. I will reply to every single one of yours. You please do the same for everybody who's helping with this.

Thanks lads and ladies.

I don't have an EV yet but my electrics are primed and ready Once our existing old car fails, it will be replaced with an EV which we will charge for free from surplus solar. I follow this industry closely, here's an insight and I dare to make a prediction.

First though I will offer an analogy to use for when you encounter EV naysayers: when combustion engine vehicles were new: the tech was awful and took decades to become useful. The range was <50 miles, the cost was only something the mega rich could afford, the infrastructure to refuel them was shocking - you had to carry jerry cans of fuel around with you. Technology is relentless though, it found a way to make the tech better and it took a very long time but we now have over 8,000 filling stations in the UK with vast underground pressurized tanks full of volatile flammable highly combustible fuel tanks and a vast network of super heavy tankers rolling around the roads 24/7 to keep the supply going. We take all that for granted but we love to moan about it when the forecourts run low on supply. Reports from insurance companies have shown that combustion engines are more likely to catch fire / explode during collision than EVs (now that EVs use LFP rather than the old Lithium ion tech). EV tech and infrastructure is new, its going to get better and its going to become more affordable.

Insight: Last month (July 2024) in China, for the first time in any country anywhere: more EVs were sold than petrol/diesel. They buy a lot more cars than we do and their emissions from all forms of road transport dropped by 4% - that might seem small but its significant.

Prediction: the cost of LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate - the safe chemistry which cant overheat or catch fire) battery prices are in free fall. As soon as next year, we might start to see EVs starting to cost less than petrol and diesel cars.

Having said all that: van EVs need a boost - come on tech you can do it!

 

[nicebutdim]

Starmer said he will drop gas and elec energy charges

Saw in the news earlier that energy prices are expected to go up by 9% this autumn.

Politicians make all manner of promises - few are ever fulfilled.

 

[Steve-S]

Saw in the news earlier that energy prices are expected to go up by 9% this autumn.

Politicians make all manner of promises - few are ever fulfilled.

Wait until Autumn. Media do say some tripe.
"This is according to forecasts from Cornwall Insight, an energy consultancy"

HMG may think differently. They have only just got their bums in the seats.

 

[nicebutdim]

Wait until Autumn. Media do say some tripe.

They most certainly do, but energy companies are usually true to their word where price increases are concerned.

 

[Steve-S]

They most certainly do, but energy companies are usually true to their word where price increases are concerned.

We have a different HMG, who will not be bulldozed by rip off private companies! Wait and see what they do. Use some common sense and look at the big picture.

 

[nicebutdim]

We have a different HMG, who will not be bulldozed by rip off private companies! Wait and see what they do. Use some common sense and look at the big picture.

They seem to be doing really well so far. Lots and lots of great decisions and sticking to every promise made - at least that's what the media tell me.

 

[Risteard]

We have a different HMG, who will not be bulldozed by rip off private companies! Wait and see what they do. Use some common sense and look at the big picture.

Seems very näive to me...