On 08/03/2019 19:36, ARW wrote:
On 08/03/2019 13:40, dennis@home wrote:
On 08/03/2019 06:23, harry wrote:
On Thursday, 7 March 2019 21:14:03 UTC, dennis@homeÂ* wrote:
On 07/03/2019 19:11, harry wrote:
On Sunday, 17 February 2019 16:55:02 UTC, Rod SpeedÂ* wrote:
wrote

Point 3 is important particularly for detached garages used for
storing
daily use vehicles overnight.

Eventually we will all be driving electric vehicles which will need
charging overnight....

Dont believe that, particularly with most in here, they'll be
dead first.



I have had an electric car for seven years.
The charge leads supplied with electric cars range from 10 to 13 amps.
They go into a domestic socket.


Not if you have a 32A charger they don't.

You don't need one for overnight charging.


But I want a car that can do 150 miles on a charge and yours
obviously can't as it runs on a couple of AA batteries.

Stick with what you know something about and it isn't electric cars!




Even the basic Nissan Leaf says it has a max range of 168 miles (if
driven in eco mode) but it take 21 hours to fully charge it with a 13A
plug and socket.

Not a problem harry says it will charge overnight from a 13A socket.
He must live above the arctic circle where nights are 24hrs in winter.


Now I am sure that EV charging point grants do not apply to a place of
work. A pity really as a car sat in a car park at work for 8 hours would
be an excellent place to put it on trickle charge.

Oh but hang on, all the DBs at work are fully loaded so we cannot
provide another 80A for the 10 employees to charge their cars.

Just turn everything else off or run them from a generator.
Its green to run an electric car wherever the electricity comes from
isn't it?


It take me 5 minutes to fill my car up and give it a 600 mile range. It
takes me 7 minutes to fill up the van and give it a 500 mile range. And
that's with the heaters on full blast whenÂ* am driving it.

I have never managed to fill mine that quick.
I need to go to a garage that has the hgv button on the pump so it goes
faster.