Electric car

[babasaclover]

Going electric. Have picked the car, I only go around town don't leave a 4 miles radius and the range for car days 300 miles. Even if I get much less cause of using heating / air conditioning etc I'll be charging twice a month at home

Any tips / things to avoid? Service station chargers seem extortionate but Lidl is cheap. Where do you charge if you have to outside of the house? For me it'll happen once / twice a year I expect

Looking forward to NOT paying for petrol.

I have an EV and charge it around every 10-14 days, depending if I use it at the weekend or not. My car states that 185 miles is a full charge, I'd guess I get about 140 in reality, but my car is 4 years old and I don't drive in any particular way to save energy or skimp on the heating/air con/phone charging etc.

The only time I've charged in public it's cost me around £25 for an hour's charging which took me from 20% up to about 85% if I recall. So about equivalent per mile to filling our petrol car.

Hi @babasaclover how are you getting on with your car this week?

I just wanted to recommend if you have Facebook to join the group Women Drive Electric UK it's a brilliant group and so so helpful.

About the chargers not releasing. I was worried about this after reading about it. But my car (ID4) has an emergency release switch hidden in the boot, I found out on that group and tried it out and it worked. Apparently most newer cars have this, so have a search through your manual and hopefully yours has one too.

I also have arthritis but find charging at home fine. Have you had your charger fitted yet? I've not had to use a public charger yet and expect I won't except a few times a year when visiting family.

Hey, thanks for asking. I am loving it!!!

I do have a manual release under the bonnet according to manufacturer so can use in an emergency. Since having my home charger fitted it has not got stuck once so hopefully just bad luck and maybe as car hadn't been charged yet??

As for the arthritis it's so much better just plugging which isn't hard once every few weeks than squeezing the petrol pump so I think it's going to be a winner for me :-)

Any see me going back to petrol or diesel, this just seems so efficient for my needs

@babasaclover glad to hear you are getting on ok

Well, the ev zealots are remarkably rude. Now I've got @Clearinguptheclutter telling me I don't know what I'm talking about. To be clear, it's obviously fine to have to refuel twice as frequently if you don't mind doing that. It's obviously fine to spend 20 minutes charging instead of 5 putting in petrol or diesel if you don't mind doing that. It's fine to have to go on the internet to track down chargers instead of stopping when you drive past a petrol station, and perhaps queuing to use one (and how far will 15 minutes charge get you anyway?) What is not find is pretending that it is just as quick and convenient as driving an ICE car, because it isn't. And if anyone here genuinely believes that then they don't know what they are talking about.

I'm sorry, wrong thread!