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VicW

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1455 on: March 01, 2020, 07:20:05 PM »
Thanks for that response Jocko. For my kind of current, no pun intended, car use the battery would never need a full charge, it would be on charge every night for seven hours which is the Economy7 lower price electricity allowance.
If there is a grant for a charging point obviously I would look into that.
In passing I think that as the government gets less and less from fuel duty they will make that up by introducing/ increasing the road fund licence on BEV's .

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1456 on: March 01, 2020, 07:34:58 PM »
It is called an OLEV grant and it is up to £500. The car does not need to be new. And if you have two BEVs you can get the grant for two chargers.
Once BEVs start to come to the fore there will be some form of taxation. Hope they do it on size and/or mileage.

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1457 on: April 21, 2020, 01:29:23 PM »
Sitting here at the hospital and for the second day watched (actually "listened") to one of the NHS Nissan electric vans go by. It has a device stuck on the front of the bonnet which emits a "space ship" sort of noise. I know electric vehicles now emit sound at low speed, but this one is just plain weird!

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1458 on: April 21, 2020, 06:12:53 PM »
Sitting here at the hospital and for the second day watched (actually "listened") to one of the NHS Nissan electric vans go by. It has a device stuck on the front of the bonnet which emits a "space ship" sort of noise. I know electric vehicles now emit sound at low speed, but this one is just plain weird!

I think it's user-selectable on some of them, driver might be a Star Trek fan.

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1459 on: May 06, 2020, 01:21:51 PM »
Some people will only consider you an expert if they agree with your point of view or advice,  when you give them advice they don't like they consider you an idiot

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1460 on: May 06, 2020, 02:13:13 PM »
The man should be certified.

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1461 on: May 06, 2020, 09:50:11 PM »
The man should be certified.

He's certainly not constrained by conventional thought.

I call him bold, but bonkers.

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1462 on: May 07, 2020, 01:29:49 PM »
It is hard to figure whats happening in Musks brain...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/grimes-elon-musk-baby-x-ea-a-12-meaning-name-a9500831.html

Looks to me that the choice of name might have come from his partner.

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1463 on: May 27, 2020, 04:31:46 PM »
France going all out to have EVs drive the return of car manufacture and purchasing.

https://time.com/5842884/france-8-billion-electric-car-industry/

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1464 on: May 27, 2020, 06:07:55 PM »
France going all out to have EVs drive the return of car manufacture and purchasing.

https://time.com/5842884/france-8-billion-electric-car-industry/

Wasn't it Einstein that said, “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1465 on: May 27, 2020, 07:46:25 PM »
Some people will only consider you an expert if they agree with your point of view or advice,  when you give them advice they don't like they consider you an idiot

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1466 on: June 08, 2020, 04:51:42 PM »
Contemporary Amperex Technology are ready to manufacture a 2 million kilometre/16 year battery. It was previously reported that the battery was co-developed with Tesla.

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1467 on: June 08, 2020, 06:12:50 PM »
Another scrappage scheme could make the EVs more affordable https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/uk-government-launch-new-car-scrappage-scheme but will it help those who haven't got a very old car but would like to move to newer technology?
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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1468 on: June 08, 2020, 07:53:01 PM »
Very few people who make use of the scrappage schemes can buy a new EV. Those that can afford an EV may buy a banger from the auction and scrap that if the programme pays enough.

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Re: Electric cars
« Reply #1469 on: June 08, 2020, 08:25:11 PM »
Very few people who make use of the scrappage schemes can buy a new EV. Those that can afford an EV may buy a banger from the auction and scrap that if the programme pays enough.

IIRC scrappage scheme rules are you have to own the vehicle for a while before you can trade it in, normally between 3 and 6 months depending on which company you are dealing with.  As with normal cars,  fuel costs normally only comes in to equation if you cover a decent number of annual miles, which is why I could never understand school run moms buying Diesel cars,  obviously were not worried about the effect of NOx and particulates on their kids health...

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Some people will only consider you an expert if they agree with your point of view or advice,  when you give them advice they don't like they consider you an idiot

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