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https://www.zap-map.com/tools/journey-cost-calculator/ Octopus is currently 7.5p / kWh overnight charging at home (just gone up from 5p). Assuming 145.5p / litre for petrol: BMW i4 M50 vs BMW M340i is 3.4p per mile vs 22.7p per mile. Putting 275 miles in the tank is £9.46 for the EV vs £62 for the petrol - and let's not forget the £40+ / month road tax saving the EV makes that we pay (assuming your car is >£40k). On the face of it, it's still pretty good, but a lot of people are doing a lot less miles now so you need to be doing the miles. |
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01-11-2022, 05:26 PM | #28 |
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EVs not even the end game, hydrogen is. It's just electric is sellable by the manufacturers atm
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01-11-2022, 06:54 PM | #29 | |
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01-15-2022, 05:53 PM | #30 | |
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This isn't hate ... I want one but why are they all driving so slowly? Is it just that it's mostly boomers with generous pensions that can afford them so they drive slowly because they're in their 60s and 70s? (NB I'm not using "boomers" as a derogatory term, I'm GenX in my early 50s)
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01-15-2022, 11:47 PM | #31 |
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some of the new car have only 40liters tank, like 1series if you do not spec turing tank to have 52liters.
in 135i i was doing 400 miles on 52l tank if it was normal 40l it would be only 250miles ish, like most ev's. |
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May be different for me as mine is a PHEV rather than a BEV, but I'm quite often sitting at 60 on the motorway, just because. Nothing to do with range.
Not everyone feels the need to race around everywhere, even some of us GenX's. I also see a lot of high powered ICE cars doing the same sorts of speeds and never wondered why they weren't doing 70+ Just seems to me some people drive the motorway at 60, regardless of age or propulsion type.
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This all comes down to what people want and what they need
Does someone 'need' a car that will do 0-60 in 3/4 seconds? No, especially with the poor roads, traffic and amount of speed cameras around these days But people still buy them, I guess for status and because they can And I have never seen a Tesla in the 3rd lane of a motorway as driving at those speeds kills the range!
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Whatever mr Tesla has in his pipe, it seems to be working https://apple.news/ACVwEp9tSSyy_2sVopGfPPA |
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First proper run in the 420d over the last two days. Leeds to Slough and back (~415 miles) plus about 20 miles of local driving and I've still got 43% of a tank of diesel left.
Had a look at the journey data thingy when I got home and was gobsmacked to see 65.5mpg average ... that's on the M25 and M1 at busy periods. The real shocker was the data in the bottom left. I might be misunderstanding this but does it mean that auto stop/start was really engaged for over 15 mins (coasting*) and that I covered 19 miles with the engine "switched off"? * I say coasting because I only stopped at junctions at the start of the journey when the engine was cold and didn't switch off.
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Of course, deep down it's really just jealousy that I can't afford one (aka justify the additional expense to the Mrs).
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Will be a bit strange, as never done anything but buy cars outright, so will have to adjust to the times.
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