Electric Vehicles

Mad_Cyril

Went up a bit, wasn’t enough to really notice if I’m honest.

Will be interesting to see if the trend continues.

benson

My company (sole shareholder and director me) purchased the car outright. Insurance renewal is March but not massively different this year to last.

15k miles a year £485 March 2022, £553 March 2023

£0 excess. 1 no fault claim and a windscreen chip.

10 years no claims.

benson

ehitach2 it will still be electric traction but from hydrogen fuel calls.

mono-stereo

Getting around 270 miles on a full charge. Range isn’t a problem as long as you have a charger at home. The odd longer trip just needs a bit more planning.

Hursty

Sounds like Reevesy is coming after EV drivers, it sort of makes sense to have an equivalent to fuel duty, but no doubt it will still be unpopular and further damage the transition to EV as per the ridiculous 2030 plan

alistair

Hursty She should but it should go back into improving the pitiful state of the UK road infrastructure. If everyone were to drive fuel tax free electric vehicles, the Treasury would miss out on £25bn in revenue.

Along_the_Wire

Hursty What’s ridiculous about the 2030 plan?

alistair

Hursty how are they going to assess how many miles someone does?

Hursty

alistair the question is whether 3p per mile enough?

alistair

Hursty I know they’ve sunk to -50 but they’re not quite ready for the bottle of Scotch and a revolver yet 😂

bosstrabs

Along_the_Wire What’s ridiculous about the 2030 plan?

No provision for scaling up the BANTS infrastructure

Hursty

Along_the_Wire the timescales are far too aggressive and the government are not listening to the car industry, they are woefully short of the targets and EVs will never gain the market share they anticipate

Along_the_Wire

Hursty Won’t someone think of the poor car industry?

Hursty

alistair apparently you will estimate like your insurance policy and then readjust each year

bosstrabs

Alistair driving like a maniac in his missus’ pink Range Rover, trying to ram Bursty off the road in his hybrid, pure FEWMIN at everyone who is refusing to BACK BRITAIN and petrol motors and FIAT POUNDS STERLING!

Hursty

bosstrabs do you drive Dave?

Mad_Cyril

bosstrabs Alistair driving like a maniac in his missus’ pink Range Rover, trying to ram Bursty off the road in his hybrid, pure FEWMIN at everyone who is refusing to BACK BRITAIN and petrol motors and FIAT POUNDS STERLING!

Care required, the peril in merrells always gets his man

bosstrabs

Hursty I have a UK driving license but don’t bother in Beijing (subway and taxis are inexpensive and convenient). In the UK, I rent a car for a few days if needed.

Hursty

bosstrabs China have a way better government scheme than the UK, called the New Energy Scheme, unfortunately we haven’t taken any notice of it

Hursty

Along_the_Wire here’s some weeds for your flippant comment:

United Kingdom:
Contributes £93 billion in turnover and £22 billion in value added to the economy.
Invests about £4 billion in R&D annually.
Employs approximately 813,000 people across the wider industry.
Accounts for 12% of total UK export goods, generating £47 billion in trade

Along_the_Wire

Hursty maybe they just need to focus a little more on the job at hand instead of whinging that they can’t do it.

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