I am planning to keep the battery at around 80%, so I will charge maybe every 3 or 4 days for 4 hours at cheap rates. If I am planning a long trip I will probably charge for 2 consecutive nights. Most of our journeys are between 10 and 5o miles, and we will probably cover around 600 miles a month, so I am confident I can find a charging regime that suits. I think its 9hrs 15 mins from 0-100%, but could be wrong.
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I’m trying to judge if I went to visit my family 320mile round trip, I would like to do it on one charge or at the most put a little charge in using the normal 3pin plug. Obviously the battery would be more or less depleted when I got home, which would be more than the 4hr window for electricity. However I only do the journey once or twice a month. Now heres the kind of tricky bit and something I need to work out if I do go electric (90% chance). Given I’m a sparky I’m in two minds whether to fit a 11kw charger myself (£560 trade) and take 3yrs BP Pulse from mb for use on longer journeys. Should I go this route I would gain more charge in that 4hr window. (will make a thread on it next week or two)
I’m trying to judge if I went to visit my family 320mile round trip, I would like to do it on one charge or at the most put a little charge in using the normal 3pin plug. Obviously the battery would be more or less depleted when I got home, which would be more than the 4hr window for electricity. However I only do the journey once or twice a month. Now heres the kind of tricky bit and something I need to work out if I do go electric (90% chance). Given I’m a sparky I’m in two minds whether to fit a 11kw charger myself (£560 trade) and take 3yrs BP Pulse from mb for use on longer journeys. Should I go this route I would gain more charge in that 4hr window. (will make a thread on it next week or two)Will be interested to hear, I posted something a week or so ago about the benefits of 4 hours cheap electric. The think is I am paying 39p the other 20 hours but fixed for a year and, come October, most tariffs will be increasing to this figure, or more anyway. It’s all a bit of a learning curve. I think 320 miles on a single charge is probably optimistic, certainly in winter, although today on a 1.5 mile journey back home we got a ridiculous 9.6miles per kWh. Stuck behind a farming vehicle doing about 23mph! It all depends on the roads and speed etc. My longest journey will be 260 miles with an overnight, so 130 each way, and I’ll probably put an extra bit of range in for the return if its showing less than 150.