Electric Vehicles

jonattonyeah

I don’t know how to drive.

benson

Now getting anxiety about getting electricity from the cupboard under the stairs to outside.

Mad_Cyril

benson
Buy some rubber gloves and wellies for when it’s raining

Amps

benson The one thing I will miss is that covid allowing, I can currently just drive to the alps with a bike in the boot. But for the few occasions I want to do that tbh I could just fly and hire a diesel out there for the short time I want to embrace the clean mojntain air

Always hire cars when you’re up the mountain:

benson

Amps Going right next to it to take a video is a pretty dumb move imo. Healthy respect required for avalanches

Amps

vinnyt77 Really dislike the design direction Audi and BMW have taken for their EVs. The Mercedes EQ range look pretty beige to me as well.

I’m quite keen on the new Audi GT

vinnyt77

Amps Yeah, the GT is much better looking then the standard eTron.

Wondering whether I can persuade Vicki that what we really need is a Taycan…

Amps

vinnyt77 Audi and Porsche designed their skateboard platform together, so the GT is a good option if you want Tycan esque energy without the price tag.

Amps

vinnyt77 Just seen you can get 100km out of 5 minutes charging with the GT. If they can get that in a cheaper car it’s game over.

Amps

What the fuck am I on about, it’s already game over for combustion engines. Captain!

Amps

Me, earlier.

Mad_Cyril

Amps
Stop nicking Eds vids Amps, you’ll run out!

Mad_Cyril

This one looks alright

benson

The rapid chargers are £££ though. No drama waiting 15 mins and grabbing a coffee.

Getting a home charger here is going to be a bit of a faff beciause the meter and consumer unit are under the stairs. What used to be a garage through the wall is now a spare room so routing out a new 32amp cable is not going to be totally straightforward. Might future proof it somehow. The Mrs is insisting on it being bang tidy.

It’ll all be worth it in the end

Dubman

I like the idea of going electric but it’s the initial cost of it which puts most people off and I wouldn’t want to buy a second hand vehicle just incase the battery is worn out. To buy a new Vw transporter van is over 50k.

benson

If you get a company car (I know vans already are deductible) it is fully deductible as 100% first year allowance and 0% BIK (going up to 1% soon). That is a no brainer. If I have 40k in my company account and I try and take that out for cash in the back pocket it is 19% corporation tax, 32.5% on the remaining amount as dividend tax.

It’s ridiculous that this is only available to company car drivers. If they switched the tax incentives to individuals rather than corporations then there would be much greater take up. Especially if they gave tax breaks on personal leases of electric cars.

Dubman

It’s up to 20% for a van up to £8000 which is good but still unachievable for most self-employed especially in this climate.

Funky

The smoothness from a hybrid cvt is something else amazing for city driving, jumping back into a sluggish manual diesel was just torture.

Can only think EV will be another step up instant response and zero effort. Even the MG EV’s are doing 0-60 in mid 7’s for heavy SUV & Estate car unheard of unless you have a V6 under the hood.

140 miles to £5 electric what’s there to complain about just lease them and no fear of the range becoming shit after 6 years.

bosstrabs

To be honest, I’m disappointed that Funky isn’t a massive climate conspiracy theorist, angrily railing against all hybrid cars.

Along_the_Wire

bosstrabs LOL, was gonna say something similar - god-damn, what about all that oil?

Funky

bosstrabs I am a huge petrol head but lets be real the production of electric cars and the batteries is hardly good for the environment over building say a 1 litre Toyota Aygo, carbon output per capita I pretty sure the Aygo would be less in its lifetime. Daily driving though hybrid and electric cars are great but I would also need something involving for the weekend.

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