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Have a look at OVO energy before you commit to a charger as their EV add on is only available with certain chargers or cars. I pay 7p kWh to charge the car and just the normal tariff rate for everything else.

Congratulations 👍 Hope you are pleased with it. We got a BMW i3 recently and my daughter, who had never driven anything other than a manual ICE, got used to the pedals very easily but it was a few days before she stopped reaching down for a gear stick!

Taken from a post on X (formally Twitter) Electric cars the truth.. I'm fed up of comments from people ridiculing EVs. They don't know what they're talking about.. .. Personally, I drive two top of the range EVs, a Jaguar and a Porsche. Their acceleration and handling is fantastic...

I’ll join you 🍻

Don’t think there is any red or pink in three 😉

There is no red in this picture. Your brain is filling the Red colour. The picture is made entirely of light blue, black and white.

I can only comment on my car, a Tesla Model 3. So, yes, regen braking effectively has the motors running in the opposite direction and the Kenetic energy then recharges the batteries. On a long downhill stretch of road in Wales recently I put 2% charge back into my battery. With regard to...

Tesla are starting to open up more and more of their superchargers for use by drivers of other makes of EV. The cost is higher than for Tesla drivers (eg, Flint Supercharger is 30p kwh for Tesla and 61p kwh for non Tesla) but that is still a lot cheaper than many other EV rapid chargers. I...

You’ll probably find your car can only accept up to 11 kw AC which is why that’s all you got. I did actually get a free charge on route in Portmeirion where there were four 22 kw chargers. Only other non Tesla experience on the trip was in a hotel car park where I thought I’d make use of a BP...

Just going back again to the cost of public chargers (sorry), I know that it has been argued that the high cost of installing these rapid chargers and the higher cost of non domestic electricity “kind of” justifies the fact that the cost to use these is high, anywhere between 65p (if you are...

And change to an EV only when the cheap tariffs have gone? Surely best to make use of these while you can.

Factor in the difference in servicing costs too 😉