Go electric or get one last petrol car?

[Orangeinmybluelightcup]

Has anyone tackled this one yet? 13yr old estate is now borderline unsafe. Would ideally like to go electric. Most charging could be done at home, so constraint 1: need to investigate getting a charging point installed. Constraint 2 is looking like getting something big enough for X2 kids in car seats and larger sized dog in the boot. Constraint 3 is the price, looking second hand but bigger electrics are newer technology still so look like £25k! Hybrids are an option but from the reading I've done the petrol kicks in soon and when they're running on petrol they're less efficient because they're heavier. But getting one last petrol car seems like a shame... Has anyone else had this debate, what did you do?

@Fluffycloudland77 I've used your referral code for octopus thanks

here's mine ( £100 each) if anyone wants it

share.octopus.energy/snow-storm-952

We've got an Ohme charger. It's been great so far!

We have no garage or private space to put a car so nowhere to put a charging point and be sure of parking next to it so still petrol for now.

We’ve had an EV for 18 months now. Unless my circumstances changed and I was regularly doing long drives there is no way I’d ever go back to an ICE car again.

I have an ‘old’ leaf- only a 24kwh battery. It’s 6 years old. It does around 60-80 miles depending on weather/type of driving. I use it for local driving, I don’t usually do more than 50/60 miles in a busy day.

It’s super easy, I plug it in to a regular 3 point plug, a ‘granny charger’. I set it to it only uses the cheap rate electricity overnight, so it costs me about £1.50 to fill up. I also use octopus so all renewable electricity.

I love the fact that in the winter you can tell it what time you want to leave so it defrosts the glass and heats itself up.

I use zap-map or plug share to check up on public chargers if I need them.

Yes it would be lovely to have a spangly new one (I’d go for a Kia e Nero) but they were out of budget and I didn’t technically need a huge range when it’s no bother to plug it in at night.

Thanks @Carriemac, they are a good company to use. No messing about like other companies where they start you on one price then raise it 50% because your usage is high which is normal if you start a tariff in winter.

EO MINI PRO 2 CHARGER

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• The Charger I would recommend is an EO Mini Pro 2
• This is a Smart enabled charger and fully conforms to the OLEV grant scheme.
• The charger will be able to deliver 7.2 KW of power to the car an hour
• The charger is fully controlled via the EO smart app which will provide all information about the charge put into the car and logging the information.
• The Charger also has an automatic feature to link in with off Peak cheap rate tariffs.
• Built in Earth protection so no earth rods required.

Just bought a beautiful EV. I live in C London with 5 chargers on my doorstep which I can’t access as non-EVs park in front of them.

@Milomonster

Just bought a beautiful EV. I live in C London with 5 chargers on my doorstep which I can’t access as non-EVs park in front of them.

That sounds very frustrating. Is it due to poor signage? Could you petition the council to either improve the signage or if that's not a problem then could they enforce. A few parking tickets should hopefully discourage.

@Milomonster

Just bought a beautiful EV. I live in C London with 5 chargers on my doorstep which I can’t access as non-EVs park in front of them.

How frustrating what do you do?