If they are so reliable, why is it that FIAT have reintroduced the engine oil dipstick in series 10 Ducato vans after having tried sensors in series 8 & 9?
I plugged my EV in to charge this lunchtime and Octopus Intelligent Go decided to charge from 1pm to 5:30pm, meaning all the laundry my wife was doing got done at 7p per unit too.Moved over to the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff yesterday and made use of the 6 hours at 7p to charge the home batteries so I could export at 15p even earlier.
Because it's a different engine design and they haven't evolved it out yet? Lots of cars don't have dipsticks anymore. The vast majority of people never check their oil. And yet cars are lasting longer than ever.
I believe series 8,9, and 10 use the same 2.2 engine? The thread below suggests the Ducato sensor has been problematic for some
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Many have drive modes with heavy emphasis one way or another. Volvo's Pure-mode for example is just about 100% electric in practice while Power- and all-terrain-modes have ICE on all the time. BMW has similar spread of drive modes as well - they even advertised automagical full ev-mode when entering no-emission-zones few years back.
On ours you can choose to use EV only, or save the battery for later so it won't go below 80% SOC, or if you put a route in the nav system it'll work out the best mix. Being a hybrid the range is only 55-60miles at best (quoted as 75).....
Friend has a hybrid Volvo. apart from around devon locally it goes to the office in Leamington spa once a weekin 2,5 hours & back home in the evening. When his wife uses it the engine is in use most of the time .
as above
Yes twats you get stuck behind. drive it normally like any vehicle.
With a diesel I don't even think about refuelling?
When it becomes pull in,fill ,pay , gone as with petrol or diesel i'd be interested
& the vast majority of them trhen should not be on the road.Would then make the roads perfect for the drivers
"go to the fuel station"All this electricity rate malarkey I just go to the fuel stationand fill up with diesel job done
With home charging, I have only had to do the EV equivalent (ie using public charging) a handful of times in the last year - and always coincidental with a natural coffee/lunch/pee stop. Loads of time saved (oops, there's my smug face again)...
but whilst charging you cannot leave again? & Why I always arrive home full.so that I can leave again instantly, which often happens.;no good being sat there not being able to leave for an hour + & I don't have "natural coffe/lunch,pee breaks" .I stop engine running pee ,drive off. You eat when you¡ve driven all day.With home charging, I have only had to do the EV equivalent (ie using public charging) a handful of times in the last year - and always coincidental with a natural coffee/lunch/pee stop. Loads of time saved (oops, there's my smug face again)...
Have never needed to.
I very rarely 'drive all day' (my bladder certainly wouldn't cope) and would certainly not deprive myself of eating just to do so.
Is the range left the same as an ice car, says 93 miles left then 2 minutes later the low fuel warning light comes on
Near future: remember that time when we had to remember to go to a special place called a fuel station to fill up with dino juice whenever we were running out? That was such a malarkey!All this electricity rate malarkey I just go to the fuel station
About time you bought a decent e bike.I thought similar knowing how my e bike battery drops of a cliff when it’s hit around 40%
About time you bought a decent e bike.
Full power on mine until the battery is flat and it has a range of 70 miles.
What's the bike then?
I think my type of riding may not be like yours
Mine takes a hammering riding up places like Bike Park Wales
The vast majority of the time, I don't have to drive to a special place to get it. It comes out of a socket at home. Driving an ICE vehicle is like having to go to the well, whereas EV drivers get home plumbing.What you don't put fuel
Waste of time the cheaper electric cars are the ones going to increase ev take up not the ones over £40kInteresting "exclusive" in Money Mail .... higher priced EV's to get cheaper to run maybe ...
Even though BEV's were up 8% YOY in a market down 10%
"The Government is set to dump its controversial 'Tesla Tax' on new electric cars to help boost sluggish sales, a Labour minister has revealed in a leaked letter seen by MailOnline and This is Money.
The present £40,000 price-threshold above which buyers must pay hundreds of pounds more in tax is set to be raised for battery-powered vehicles at the next Budget 'to make it easier to buy electric cars,' writes Roads Minister Lilian Greenwood."
Government to dump 'Tesla Tax' on new EVs introduced in April
Changes to the Expensive Car Supplement levied on EVs will be made at the next Budget 'to make it easier to buy electric cars,' Roads Minister Lilian Greenwood said in a letter.www.dailymail.co.uk
Agreed. We're getting there. There are a few EVs that are pretty much the same price as their ICE equivalents. A few years ago, an eCorsa was an entry level EV and cost about £32k. Now there's several proper cars below £25k (and the Spring). The EV premium is eroding. And it's the middle to low end that'll make a difference in our towns and cities.
You can now buy a 2025 pre registered Spring for £11K!
The UK average price paid for an EV is somewhere between £46 and £50k. So maybe not a complete waste... but not a silver bullet solution either. There are some great deals on EV's put there at the moment but the tax is charged on manufacturers list price, not the price you pay. Every little helps.
We are looking at the Citroen eC3 and Hyundai Inster currently and the range for a local runabout is ample.
I think a large percentage of the new EV sales are probably company cars rather than private owners. The fleets buy at heavy discount. most of the EVs in my street are > £40k jobs, apart from my MG5 and our neighbours ZOE.
Lots of heavy 'discounts' also available to private buyers.
My point though is that if there is room to incentivise EV sales do it in the cheap mass market stuff. I can't figure out why the manufacturers have high list prices and big discounts rather than a more realistic list price it makes depreciation look really high and bumps cars into higher ved. Presumably it's because the public are all mugs and believe DFS really does have sales all the time!
I think that was true up to about a year ago. Private buyers I think are now a lot more common and I see loads of byd and MG EVs compared to a year ago. It's one of the reasons that Tesla has lost so much market share I suspect they are largely still company cars
It's also due to an accounting game manufacturers are playing. About 10 years ago, they all switched so frequently they are the ultimate owners of leased vehicles. They remain as assets. So it's in their interest to set the values high. But it doesn't affect the buyers because they just pay a lease rate. I think the depreciated assets then offset tax? So it's not uncommon for a lease to cost less than an owned car would have depreciated. It's all an accounting fiddle.
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