EV Owners thoughts please

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Original Poster:

366 posts

110 months

Thursday 13th August 2015
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Hi Guys,

I currently have a 54 mile daily commute give or take a few. The local car-park where I have a permit currently has an EV charging spot, although they state max charge time of 4 hours.

At home, there is no designated parking for the residents however as there is only 4 vehicles (2 of which are mine and OH) is not feasible to run a charging wire to the car (crossing pavement etc) We have a front garden which will be converted to a driveway in the near future after which charging will not be an issue, but does anybody else have a similar situation with their EV?

There is literally only one charging point in the whole commute (A & B roads) and that is at the car park.

Would you stay with the ICE or branch out to EV?

Thanks

GreatGranny

9,270 posts

231 months

Thursday 13th August 2015
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54 miles is easily within range for the Zoe and Leaf, they will do 100 miles on one charge so unless you have a massive detour range will not be an issue.

Think someone on here has been offered a decent finance deal on the Leaf and Zoe deals are about £150 pcm for 12k miles per year.

If my annual mileage was 12k I would be driving an EV definitely.

appletonn

699 posts

265 months

Friday 14th August 2015
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GreatGranny said:
54 miles is easily within range for the Zoe and Leaf, they will do 100 miles on one charge so unless you have a massive detour range will not be an issue.

Think someone on here has been offered a decent finance deal on the Leaf and Zoe deals are about £150 pcm for 12k miles per year.

If my annual mileage was 12k I would be driving an EV definitely.
100 miles on a charge??!

Maybe if you drive like Miss Daisie, but in the real world of 'making progress', heating/aircon, British weather, you'll only see around 80 miles max of true range in mixed driving from either car.

As long as you can top up at destination, should you ever need to, you should be fine.

Phunk

2,008 posts

176 months

Saturday 15th August 2015
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I wouldn't do it, what happens if the charging point is being used by someone else or is broken (which normally takes several months to fix!)

LordFlathead

9,643 posts

263 months

Saturday 15th August 2015
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Charge it at home?

lost in espace

6,262 posts

212 months

Saturday 15th August 2015
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Phunk is 100% correct, no home charger don't bother.

Phunk

2,008 posts

176 months

Sunday 16th August 2015
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lost in espace said:
Phunk is 100% correct, no home charger don't bother.
In saying that, I don't have a home charger. However, I can charge at work (1 mile away) or I have about 15 chargers within 10 minutes of me.