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Vince, Motability accounts for 20% of vehicle sales in the UK, it is a big player.
The manufacturers will approach Motability and do a deal.
It is just negotiation after that.
‘just saw a video on YouTube of guy charging Niro ev up with a rapid charger in carpark went to 80% in half hour cost £35 ! As you say best charging at home 200 miles £4.50’
You got to remember Mike, YouTube Videos, they are NOT interested in supplying accurate information, and ONLY INTERESTED in getting you to click on their content.
They want to make their Vid stand out and get you to click on it. They will happily lie to you, to get the clicks. After all there are a 100 other vids on youtube on the same subject.
They are not called ‘Content Creators’ for nothing. The creativiy is getting YOU to click their Vid over the others….lol..
But putting it i perspective, to half fill my petrol tank at a supermarket station cost £35. I dont kow what it would cost at a motorway service staton….lol
I’m just wondering what the life expectancy of the Battery drive motors, drivetrain and brakes if it is launched at least once everyday.
A lot of these EV’s have extended warranties, I guess there will be smallprint somewhere as a get out clause if its constantly thrashed…
Mike, that Niro has manual mirrors. It is the lowest spec. You get more bang for your buck with Hyundai, true the design team must be on ketamine as they are fugly.
Best bet is to hang on to your existing car ……you never know the MG 4 XPower could be on the scheme in 6 months….lol.
They are just being competitive. Chinese workers are paid very little. That is why their cars cost about £15K.
A very good reason to change suppliers.
That is terrible, they got to be investing in their infrastructure to accomodate EV’s.
I’m 25% Welsh…My grandfather was from Bagilt….lol.
This is from Gutn Tog and it gives a perspective of the eruption. It looks quite small on the LiveFeeeds.
But this shows it at a human scale…lol..
Phone Motability in the morning….your answer is there.
It si developing very rapidly now.
Lave curtains from a fissure eeruption, again it is the usual style of eruptives.
Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) detected the Dyke forming 3 km long a few days ago.
The 2 main feeds are MBL.is and RUV. All other channels afar.tv etc just feed off these cameras.
Currently, the remote cameras do not have a good field of view, after all they didnt know where the first lava would flow.
Give it a coupe of days, they will move their equipment to a better location. They use steerable cameras and solar panels, which microwave back to Reykjavik.
Youtuber Just Icelandic has quite a good channel as well.
But in a couple of days it will get better.
The volcano started erupting about half hour ago. True to form, from earthquake swarm to eruption took 5 days.
Its on its initial phase, and it will be interesting to see it developing. MBL.is and RUV are the Icelandic tv statiosn that have YT live feeds.
I was asking myself the same question Mike. There are a few threads on the Kona loooong wait times.
As there is a facelift model being introduced it seems there is a quick delivery of the old models at present.
But does that mean when I order, will it be back to normal and really long wait times for the new model??
Mike, You dont need another Smart meter. If its a modern one then it doesnt matter. Same with the wall charger.
The tarriffs will not really matter either. Its not as if you are going to fully charge your EV every night, unless you are an Uber driver.
Octopus may very well have the lowest EV off peak charging, but that is a minor consideration, the variance
between suppliers will be marginal.
Your energy bills during the day will define your energy costs.
Your current setup with a year old smart meter is fine, and the wall charger when its fitted, will be fine.
It looks confusing, but its not really.
If your mileage is 200 miles\week, then its going to cost you around £4.50 to fill up. If its 400 miles its going to cost £9.00.
I passed an EV charger in the council parking lot. The rate was 15p\Kw\H So of you charge your EV up to
80% and its a 55KW battery say to 40KW , its going to cost 15X40 which is £6.00.
In reality the the Council charger is not going to put too much charge in your car, but it will be enough to give your car some moderate range.
EV charging at service stations – well its going to be more expensive, nothing new there…but sometimes it is necessary.
Yes, we all know about the rubbish public charging situation, bvroken chargers, yadda yadda yadda, but that is NOW…in 6 months or a year the charging network is going to improve exponentially. Petrol pumps on the other hand, will start to disappear as demand drops off the cliff and prices go through the roof.
I was saying that to my sister today.
To fill up my current car it costs £45.
To fill up the EV, it costs £4.50 at home.
Its a no-brainer really. The Megane E-Tech I test drove yesterday knocked the socks off my 2020 Peuguot 2008 in every respect…except ride height. The Tech on the Megane is light years ahead of the 2008.
My demo car was the Techno and the mirrors did indeed fold away.
It is called gutter press for a reason.
The Telegraph and the Mail, its language and grammar is directed at the reading age of an 8 year old.
If incumbent politicians lose support from the gutter press, they become unelectable. There is no democracy when you have that level of interference in society.
The political parties buckle to the press rather than do something about it.
We have as much choice as the average North Korean or Russian citizen, being brainwashed by Pravda, the BBC, or the Daily Mail. They are all the same..
They carefully skirt around the fact that our Veterans who have mental and physical disabilites rely heavily on Motability. so in effect it is an attack on them. They deserve better than that.
Interstingly, I visited the VW dealership today to have a look at this magical beast, the ID.5.
But alas, they are hiding or flew off, the dealership had ZERO ID.5’s not on the showroom or forecourt…mmmmm.
Strange that according to Mota c la r i t y the ID.5 is 35mm lower than the ID.4.
It was something Nas said about his ID.5:
‘Ride Height not much better than a standard saloon’
Don’t forget the UK has three huge LNG terminals. The UK produces natural gas indigenously from the North Sea in the form of methane, and has imported LNG since 2005 from Qatar, United States and Nigera been our main suppliers. The UK 18.7 bcm of LNG in 2019 and has increased since it lost its main nest egg Russia. I’m not saying wholesale price isn’t going to increase, which it will now the EU has to source it from, outside Russia!
Yup, we are lucky that British Gas maintained LNG storage, they use the old gas reservoirs as storage now.
Currenly the EU has no means to accept LNG from tankers, it is brought to UK reservoirs and piped to Europe.
Germany was in a great hurry last year to build an LNG port for taking gas from tankers, they didnt like gas being unloaded at a UK port and then trasnfered…lol.
Nice one, good news. the facelift model will be much improved over original. Hopefully they will have a build run and it wont be long before you have the keys in your hand.
I am looking for a new car and the 2008 in hte facelift model is very appealing, especially the EV version. Its range is not very good, but that is not a problem, I’ll adapt to the new regime!
It is still very much an unusual car, only 2 days ago a couple were walking around my car, they got a fright when I unlocked the doors. I showed them the inside etc.
They had a Mazda cx-30 and looking for something else.
Lol…some of the drivers are abusing the system and bay blocking.
However as technology in EV batteries and charging points progresses, it will be a thing of the past.
Remember diailup internet….lol, that is the stage of EV charging at the moment.
