Electric vans

[bigspark17]

Any body have or thinking about getting an electric van?

im considering the vivaro e. The 50kw battery will do 143 miles which is more than enough for me. With the goverment grant of 20% off zero emmisions vans up to £8000 its coming out at onlu a few grand more than a new vivaro diesel. British made and also a good usefor the BBL. any views?

 

[pirate]

I live in a flat. Every flat has a garage, all of which form the ground floor of the block, and all have basic pwer and light installed. Each also has a parking space in front of the garage. However, most modern cars are too big to get into the garages. Only one neighbour uses her garage for its intended purpose and she drives a small car, a Toyota Aygo. Only one proprietor has an electric car, but of course he has to charge it while it is parked outside his garage. I suspect he had a non-compliant charging setup (he's moved away now, but his flat was full of dodgy electrics, some of which I have posted pics of previously) and there is no evidence of what charger he had. I suppose I might buy an electric car of some sort next time as my daily mileage is normally minimal nowadays, but i will hold on to my current diesel car as long as possible as it gives me a range of over 500 miles on a tankful, and I like that flexibilty for weekends away, not that I'm doing much of that at the moment. I would struggle to visit my sister in Ardnamurchan in an electric vehicle as there are very few, if any, charging points on the route, and she doesn't have a charger either. EVs may be suitable for many, but certainly not for me.

 

[pc1966]

Were it not for the serious problem of home charging for me, an EV would be great as my typical mileage per day is around 30 at most so no range problems (other than trips to family where the round-trip and no remote charging point, is around 180 miles).

 

[freddo]

I also don't do many miles, the main issue for me is the cost of the car!

 

[Mike Johnson]

A fair few leased electric cars are coming to the end of the leasing period and will be available on the second hand market, the only thing I would be wary of would be the battery life left, but I don't think it will bother me in my lifetime. ?

 

[Zerax]

EVs may be suitable for many, but certainly not for me.

Exactly what I said... EVs work well for many many many people... but NOT all. But that's only the current position... as EVs become more mainstream we'll slowly see many of the obstacles to ownership being overcome... it's all very normal for any new technology.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Conversely EVs don't work for many, many, many more people, this technology will be forced onto the rest of us in the future and they will become mainstream, but at a cost to our countryside that we will never get back, the whole side of a hill disappeared into a river in County Down recently because the pine forest had been cut down to make way for a wind farm, the local councils objections on the development to the APB due to environmental issues was ignored and the planning permission was fast tracked as Strategic Infrastructure, bypassing the local council and going directly to "An Board Pleanala" who approved the project, this is just part of the ongoing Meenbog project which is still ongoing despite this ecological disaster to the river, its this sort of news that is never made public on the other side of the ongoing drive to make us all use more electricity than at the moment we can't produce ecologically sufficiently without destroying our countryside.

 

[nicebutdim]

*Co Donegal

It was a huge peat slip. The great irony is that a lot of former bog land has been deforested, at great expense, in an effort at restoring peat bogs.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Yes in total 182 acres which ran into the River Mournebeg a tributary of the river Derg, part of the river Foyle all areas of Conservation (SAC)