Reply To: EV’s and the effect of Air Conditioning on battery performance

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bigmac7288
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    @bigmac7288 You are getting a bit mixed up, and its understandable. Essentially Phaedra was trying to equate fiel costs between an EC and ICE vehicles and using the cost of a gallon of petrol as a denominator. He is correct, petrol is about £6.50 to £7.00 gallon. My last ICE car managed 33mpg over 3 years, so yes, i would get about 33-40 miles on £7. Phaedra is also saying that 40 miles in an EV cost him 75p. Hopefully that makes more sense to ya. It is difficult trying to equate 2 different systems. But it boils down to this. Filling my tank in my ICE car cost £70. Filling the tank on my EV cost £7. Certainly the ICE car had 20 more miles capacity than the EV.

    Perfect reply thanks for clearing that up was a bit lost on the £7 filling ur tank. Im not against EV tried to get one my self but sadly since I need to use the Mobility grants system they don’t seem to want to give a grant for a electric vehicle so it was petrol for me but managed to get parents to upgrade to HEV.