I wish…. No, an old fiat only used around town on very very short runs. We use the Beemer ‘M’ on long runs
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I wish…. No, an old fiat only used around town on very very short runs. We use the Beemer ‘M’ on long runs
Ok, I stand corrected, 7p per mile is still significantly cheaper than 17p per mile.
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I charge form home on the standard rate, so no cheap tariff and it is cheaper than previous ICE cars by quite a bit. But the charges are rigged and can be changed at any point in time by politicians and they will change to extract sufficient tax from us no matter what cars we end up driving.
We try to do the 'right thing' and switched from petrol to diesel, but diesel soon became more expensive, so we were then forced into EV's and they will become more expensive in time, of that you can be quite certain.
No diesel car I've had ever achieved 50mpg....my 2.2 ltr Max managed about 37 mpg normally, could eek it upto about 42mpg on a long uninterrupted run. The 2 litre BMW X3 did about 46mpg no matter how you drove it. Didn't seem to be that sensitive. Then had a VW T5 van and that managed about 39mpg or so from memory, could never quite get that into the 40's. But both are larger heaver cars so to be expected I guess.
Not surprisingly I don't quite get the advertised range in my EV either...so the laboratory conditions they determine the advertised efficiencies seem to be hard to achieve in the real world wether you drive an ICE car or an EV.
We try to do the 'right thing' and switched from petrol to diesel, but diesel soon became more expensive, so we were then forced into EV's and they will become more expensive in time, of that you can be quite certain.
No diesel car I've had ever achieved 50mpg....my 2.2 ltr Max managed about 37 mpg normally, could eek it upto about 42mpg on a long uninterrupted run. The 2 litre BMW X3 did about 46mpg no matter how you drove it. Didn't seem to be that sensitive. Then had a VW T5 van and that managed about 39mpg or so from memory, could never quite get that into the 40's. But both are larger heaver cars so to be expected I guess.
Not surprisingly I don't quite get the advertised range in my EV either...so the laboratory conditions they determine the advertised efficiencies seem to be hard to achieve in the real world wether you drive an ICE car or an EV.
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