Reply To: Is it now cheaper to use petrol?

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rox
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    Fuels cheaper now and many chargers are more expensive but the vid gives you an idea, although how you can compare diesel and petrol at both 50 mpg is beyond me or around town or on the motorway so many variables.

    My youngest brother recently swapped to diesel and is saving a huge amount even at higher costs as mostly it’s not urban driving he’s doing.

    Maybe next weekend we’ll go visit him as they’ve just had their 1st child, it’s a 380/400 mile round trip. We’ll stay for a few hour’s and they don’t have any off road parking either and nearest charger will be some distance from their house.

    Also on that journey i’ll use adaptive cruise most of the time, what effect will that have on a ev’s range. I know it increases my fuel consumption as i just leave it at the set speed and let it do it’s thing, around the speed limit and the journey takes about 3 hours there, if we do stop it’s for a quick leak.

    So we would have to charge on the journey adding alot more extra time. Not a big problem in an ICE car but in an ev, it is an issue. Then you return home and then need to charge for tomorrow again the closet charger is too far away and you can only stay for 2 hours in the car park.

    Going slower in an ev on motorways is not an option either as it will impact on the time we have to spend seeing them or the time we get home and that will impact on my daughter’s.

    Definitely think I’ll be staying with the ice hybrid we just recently bought off the scheme for many year’s, as having an ev would be to much of a hassle and headache. Hopefully we can keep it as long as you’ve had your jazz wigwam.