Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an amusing
price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie by you, me and
every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is detail
that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the interesting detail
is that you have to rent the battery. That will cost the driver £80 a month
for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery.
And my wife's boring old petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.

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_/ _/

On 09/08/2013 15:25, Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie
by you, me and every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is
detail that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the
interesting detail is that you have to rent the battery. That will
cost the driver £80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.


So the battery charging costs are on top?

Fredxx wrote:
On 09/08/2013 15:25, Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie
by you, me and every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is
detail that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the
interesting detail is that you have to rent the battery. That will
cost the driver £80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.


So the battery charging costs are on top?

Yes, but probably not going to be a lot. Car tax is zero so there's a small
saving there.

Inability to visit the ageing parents without an overnight rest stop would
kill it for me.

--
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_/ _/

So the battery charging costs are on top?

Remarkably (although I'm sure things will soon change), it only costs £10/year membership to use the London EV on-street/public charging network - with no additional charge for electricity:

https://www.sourcelondon.net/membership

Even so, the main problem seems to be that EV's are most use if you live in the inner city - where you're least likely to be able to park in your own driveway to charge-up.

(I wonder if anyone's collecting up car-full's of free electricity, taking it home, and dumping it into their feed-in tariff?).

As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the Renault pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.

I've also heard plans for retrofit conversions to existing street lighting for add-on charging points. I suspect roll-out of public charge points will soon become the choke-point for inner-city adoption.

In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie by
you, me and every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is detail
that the real world range is closer to 60 miles.

They do themselves no good by this barely veiled attempt at misinformation.
Rather in the same way as many CFLs and LEDs claim to be the equivalent of
say a 100w tungsten bulb when they plainly ain't - and by quite some
margin. Now we all know if you hammer a petrol car the fuel consumption
will increase dramatically - but the difference isn't in the same league
as electric.

But the interesting
detail is that you have to rent the battery. That will cost the driver
£80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.

I suppose you'd need to know the total running costs over a period of time
- including depreciation - to make a worthwhile judgement. Same as any
car, really.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

" :
As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the
Renault pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.

Nearly there? I don't think so.

--
Mike Barnes

On Friday, 9 August 2013 16:59:13 UTC+1, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,

" wrote:



As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the Renault

pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.



Not with a ****y 130 mile range they aren't; I get a 600 mile range with

a dizzle C4.

It isn't all about price and specification for early adopters of new technology (or for that matter for a large proportion of car-buyers generally).

I suspect Renault will get sufficient volume of sales now, with their "rent a battery" deal, to get governments to support a wider roll-out of subsidy deals, public charging infrastructure etc.

The beneficiaries are likely to be well-heeled 2nd car owners that have a well-defined niche for that vehicle (in fact rather like the car scrappage scheme of a few years ago).

On 09/08/2013 15:25, Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an amusing
price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie by you, me and
every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is detail
that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the interesting detail
is that you have to rent the battery. That will cost the driver £80 a month
for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery.
And my wife's boring old petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.

Around here, a choice of four empty parking spaces in every local
authority run car park, no matter how busy the rest of the parking is.

Colin Bignell

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie by
you, me and every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is detail
that the real world range is closer to 60 miles.

They do themselves no good by this barely veiled attempt at
misinformation.
Rather in the same way as many CFLs and LEDs claim to be the equivalent of
say a 100w tungsten bulb when they plainly ain't - and by quite some
margin. Now we all know if you hammer a petrol car the fuel consumption
will increase dramatically - but the difference isn't in the same league
as electric.

But the interesting
detail is that you have to rent the battery. That will cost the driver
£80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.

I suppose you'd need to know the total running costs over a period of time
- including depreciation - to make a worthwhile judgement. Same as any
car, really.


Not all cars come with a rental battery.
Those of us with PV panels, charge them up from the PV with free electricity
in Summer.
My car does equivalent of 187mpg.
Or five miles/Kwh.
http://www.nextgreencar.com/view-car...ric-(av-UK-mix)

In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the
Renault pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.

Not with a ****y 130 mile range they aren't; I get a 600 mile range with
a dizzle C4.


I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive that
distance without stopping - especially in the UK.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 09/08/2013 19:40, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the
Renault pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.

Not with a ****y 130 mile range they aren't; I get a 600 mile range with
a dizzle C4.


I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive that
distance without stopping - especially in the UK.


I bought the long range tank for my car specifically to give me a better
range than that for when I go touring in Europe. I won't do it non-stop,
but I also don't have to buy fuel at motorway prices.

Colin Bignell

In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the
Renault pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.

Not with a ****y 130 mile range they aren't; I get a 600 mile range with
a dizzle C4.


I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive that
distance without stopping - especially in the UK.


without stopping no, but I reglarly drive to Central Scotland ina day -
that's around 430 miles. If I had to recharge a battery at my stops, the
journey would not get done in a day thus involving an overnight stay. If I
went on to Inverness - which I have done once, then the 600 mile range is
relevant.

--
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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

In article -
september.org, Steve Firth scribeth thus
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an amusing
price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie by you, me and
every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is detail
that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the interesting detail
is that you have to rent the battery. That will cost the driver £80 a month
for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery.
And my wife's boring old petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.


They still haven't cracked the Electric car problem as yet. Either its
got to collect current on the move and use a battery as a simple store
when off grid, or the prime mover energy source has to be on the car
like perhaps Petrol or Diseasel;'!.....


--
Tony Sayer

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the
Renault pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.

Not with a ****y 130 mile range they aren't; I get a 600 mile range with
a dizzle C4.


I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive that
distance without stopping - especially in the UK.

South coast to The North West and back will see a driver getting close to
Six hundred miles. Easy to do in a diesel Mondeo and a fairly typical drive
for an engineer or sales rep. They wouldn't want to have to wait overnight
for a "fill".

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_/ _/

Nightjar wrote:
On 09/08/2013 19:40, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the
Renault pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.

Not with a ****y 130 mile range they aren't; I get a 600 mile range with
a dizzle C4.


I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive that
distance without stopping - especially in the UK.


I bought the long range tank for my car specifically to give me a better
range than that for when I go touring in Europe. I won't do it non-stop,
but I also don't have to buy fuel at motorway prices.

Also on those sorts of drives fuel stops are a significant drag consuming
as much as a half hour every few hundred miles. With a long range tank it's
possible to get much further with less stress. And of course there's "fill
up in Luxembourg" syndrome. A fill there with a large tank can save "quite
a bit" of money.


--
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_/ _/

Nightjar wrote:

On 09/08/2013 15:25, Steve Firth wrote:

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.

Around here, a choice of four empty parking spaces in every local
authority run car park, no matter how busy the rest of the parking is.

There are some charging points in the NCP in town, nothing preventing
ordinary cars from parking in them though ...

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 15:46:35 +0000 (UTC), Steve Firth wrote:

... the interesting detail is that you have to rent the battery.
That
will cost the driver £80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

My diesel guzzler only costs 19p/mile in diesel.

So the battery charging costs are on top?

Yes, but probably not going to be a lot.

Well say a 30 kWHr battery and M-F wage slave and a trip out at the
weekend 6 charges a week: 6 x 30 = 180 kWHrs @ 10p = £18/week, approx
£75/month. Hum around 26p/mile.... Even charging every other day is
about the same as my diesel guzzler. B-)

Inability to visit the ageing parents without an overnight rest stop
would kill it for me.

With a 60 mile real world range the inablty to do the weekly shop
would kill it for me.

--
Cheers
Dave.

In article ,
Nightjar wrote:
I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive that
distance without stopping - especially in the UK.


I bought the long range tank for my car specifically to give me a better
range than that for when I go touring in Europe. I won't do it non-stop,
but I also don't have to buy fuel at motorway prices.

Where do you stop for the night? Not on a motorway, surely? So buy your
fuel there?

--
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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
charles wrote:
I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive
that distance without stopping - especially in the UK.


without stopping no, but I reglarly drive to Central Scotland ina day -
that's around 430 miles.

I do Aberdeen from London. Some 540 miles using M40 M6. My car will - just
about do it on one tank. However, since I stop for a meal on the way it's
no big deal to fill up.

If I had to recharge a battery at my stops,
the journey would not get done in a day thus involving an overnight
stay.

Oh indeed. I doubt any pure electric car will ever have the range of a
petrol one - if relying on some form of storage of electricity.

If I went on to Inverness - which I have done once, then the 600
mile range is relevant.

Wonder how many filling stations you pass on your route? ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive
that distance without stopping - especially in the UK.

South coast to The North West and back will see a driver getting close
to Six hundred miles. Easy to do in a diesel Mondeo and a fairly typical
drive for an engineer or sales rep.

In one day? If you average 60 mph - difficult to do - that's driving for
10 hours. Doesn't leave much time for actual work.

They wouldn't want to have to wait overnight for a "fill".

It only takes a few minutes to fill a diesel Mondeo. Last time I tried. Or
am I missing something?

I doubt many drive more than 300 miles or so in the UK without a break.
And a rep won't be searching for the cheapest fuel.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive
that distance without stopping - especially in the UK.

It means I fill up about once a month.

Do you live a very long way from a filling station? If not, why carry all
that fuel around for no reason?

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Dave Plowman London SW
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In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
With a 60 mile real world range the inablty to do the weekly shop
would kill it for me.


Quite. It would have been fine for my usual commute in London, though. But
not with those overall costs for what would have to be a second car for
town only use.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive
that distance without stopping - especially in the UK.

South coast to The North West and back will see a driver getting close
to Six hundred miles. Easy to do in a diesel Mondeo and a fairly typical
drive for an engineer or sales rep.

In one day? If you average 60 mph - difficult to do - that's driving for
10 hours. Doesn't leave much time for actual work.

They wouldn't want to have to wait overnight for a "fill".

It only takes a few minutes to fill a diesel Mondeo. Last time I tried. Or
am I missing something?

Yes, the original topic was about electric cars and they will take a lot
more than "a few minutes" to refuel.


I doubt many drive more than 300 miles or so in the UK without a break.
And a rep won't be searching for the cheapest fuel.

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

In article ,
charles wrote:
It only takes a few minutes to fill a diesel Mondeo. Last time I
tried. Or am I missing something?

Yes, the original topic was about electric cars and they will take a lot
more than "a few minutes" to refuel.

Well yes, but I was commenting on a 600 mile range of a conventional car.
Saying I'm not really sure just how necessary that is.

Of course no electric car has anything like the range needed for long
distance travel - even in the UK. I doubt there's one on the market that
could run for a morning at motorway speeds. Although you might think so by
the ads.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:25:50 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I do Aberdeen from London. Some 540 miles using M40 M6.

And M74 M8 A90 (I think...) Aberdeen is bad enough from here but then
that for a single days work.

If I went on to Inverness - which I have done once, then the 600
mile range is relevant.

Wonder how many filling stations you pass on your route? ;-)

Once North of the central belt probably not that many. If there
wasn't a petrol station in the town the nearest to here would be
Hexham at just over 20 miles. Both are 2 or 3p/l more than better
served areas.

One has to think about fuel you could use the best part of two
gallons just "nipping out to fill up". If the local station is
closed. B-)

--
Cheers
Dave.

My worry about electric cars would be that I'd leave it on charge
overnight, only to find in the morning that something had tripped (or
whatever) and the car wasn't charged. Then what would I do? Lose a day I
suppose while I waited for it to charge.

Bill

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Nightjar wrote:
I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive that
distance without stopping - especially in the UK.


I bought the long range tank for my car specifically to give me a better
range than that for when I go touring in Europe. I won't do it non-stop,
but I also don't have to buy fuel at motorway prices.

Where do you stop for the night? Not on a motorway, surely? So buy your
fuel there?

More and more ,motorway service areas are installing charging points,
and most of them have hotels on site.

--
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John.

On 10/08/2013 02:22, Bill Wright wrote:
My worry about electric cars would be that I'd leave it on charge
overnight, only to find in the morning that something had tripped (or
whatever) and the car wasn't charged. Then what would I do? Lose a day I
suppose while I waited for it to charge.

Bill

That could cause chaos if there were a major overnight power cut in an
area with high electric car usage. Lots of people failing to get to
work, school, etc.

--
Rod

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
charles wrote:
I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive
that distance without stopping - especially in the UK.


without stopping no, but I reglarly drive to Central Scotland ina
day - that's around 430 miles.

I do Aberdeen from London. Some 540 miles using M40 M6. My car will -
just about do it on one tank. However, since I stop for a meal on the
way it's no big deal to fill up.

Try doing that journey and stopping only once with a woman in the car. They
are programmed to need a **** every 100 miles

--
Adam

On 09/08/13 16:27, Fredxx wrote:
On 09/08/2013 15:25, Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie
by you, me and every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is
detail that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the
interesting detail is that you have to rent the battery. That will
cost the driver £80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.


So the battery charging costs are on top?
yeah, but the gas that runs the power stations doesn't come with a
massive fuel duty slapped on top.
for a 33% efficent car, a litre of fuel is around 3kwh of electricity
worth after the engine has ****ed most up te exhasut.

so at 12p or so per unit, that comes down to 36p a litre for the 'fuel';

The government would collapse from tax starvation take if E-cars ever
took off.



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On 09/08/13 16:49, wrote:
(I wonder if anyone's collecting up car-full's of free electricity, taking it home, and dumping it into their feed-in tariff?).
harry?


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On 09/08/13 16:59, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
" wrote:

As your pricing example points out, EV's are *nearly* there, and the
Renault pricing deal will be enough to bring-in more early adopters.

Not with a ****y 130 mile range they aren't; I get a 600 mile range
with a dizzle C4.

the lithium air technology could get to around the same if and when it
becomes a reliable safe, cheap practical commercial solution.

An awful lot of ifs though.

If fossil fuels do price themselves out of the market, you might be
interested to ponder how things will pan out.

Here are some ponderings:

http://www.templar.co.uk/downloads/B...ssil_Fuels.pdf


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In article , The Natural Philosopher
scribeth thus
On 09/08/13 16:27, Fredxx wrote:
On 09/08/2013 15:25, Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie
by you, me and every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is
detail that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the
interesting detail is that you have to rent the battery. That will
cost the driver £80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.


So the battery charging costs are on top?
yeah, but the gas that runs the power stations doesn't come with a
massive fuel duty slapped on top.
for a 33% efficent car, a litre of fuel is around 3kwh of electricity
worth after the engine has ****ed most up te exhasut.

so at 12p or so per unit, that comes down to 36p a litre for the 'fuel';



The government would collapse from tax starvation take if E-cars ever
took off.


That comment from you of all TNP!

Noooo!, they just find it expedient to tax the Leccy for "road use" !...



Suppose that Red non - road fuel leccy with be a bit difficult, they'll prolly
have to invent a way of adding "Red electrons" to it;?...
--
Tony Sayer

No and I'm getting fed up with that weird commercial for the Adam as well.
Another problem is that they are practically silent, and crossing roads if
you cannot see well suddenly has a very real extra danger. EU say they make
having a sound manditory, but they allow the driver to switch it off. Logic?

Brian

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"Steve Firth" wrote in message
...
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing
price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie by you, me and
every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is detail
that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the interesting
detail
is that you have to rent the battery. That will cost the driver £80 a
month
for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery.
And my wife's boring old petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.

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On 09/08/2013 19:06, harryagain wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article
,
Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie by
you, me and every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is detail
that the real world range is closer to 60 miles.

They do themselves no good by this barely veiled attempt at
misinformation.
Rather in the same way as many CFLs and LEDs claim to be the equivalent of
say a 100w tungsten bulb when they plainly ain't - and by quite some
margin. Now we all know if you hammer a petrol car the fuel consumption
will increase dramatically - but the difference isn't in the same league
as electric.

But the interesting
detail is that you have to rent the battery. That will cost the driver
£80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.

I suppose you'd need to know the total running costs over a period of time
- including depreciation - to make a worthwhile judgement. Same as any
car, really.


Not all cars come with a rental battery.
Those of us with PV panels, charge them up from the PV with free electricity
in Summer.

But that electricity isn't 'free'.

My car does equivalent of 187mpg.
Or five miles/Kwh.
http://www.nextgreencar.com/view-car...ric-(av-UK-mix)




--
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On 09/08/2013 15:25, Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an amusing
price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie by you, me and
every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is detail
that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the interesting detail
is that you have to rent the battery. That will cost the driver £80 a month
for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery.
And my wife's boring old petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

I'm struggling to see what makes the electric car a good idea.

You can drive them whilst wearing wholewheat dungarees....

--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Incidentally what is the purpose behind buying a car and renting a battery?
Does that mean you can actually rent several batteries and leave one at home
while driving on the other one?
Or do they expect them to pack up so early they need to keep renewing them,
a bit like 1970s Colour TVs?

Brian

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"polygonum" wrote in message
...
On 10/08/2013 02:22, Bill Wright wrote:
My worry about electric cars would be that I'd leave it on charge
overnight, only to find in the morning that something had tripped (or
whatever) and the car wasn't charged. Then what would I do? Lose a day I
suppose while I waited for it to charge.

Bill

That could cause chaos if there were a major overnight power cut in an
area with high electric car usage. Lots of people failing to get to work,
school, etc.

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Rod

On 10/08/13 09:29, tony sayer wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
scribeth thus
On 09/08/13 16:27, Fredxx wrote:
On 09/08/2013 15:25, Steve Firth wrote:
Renault are starting to really push their Zoe electric car. It's an
amusing price, but massively subsidised by European governments (ie
by you, me and every other taxpayer).

Renault advertise it as 130 mile range but in the small print is
detail that the real world range is closer to 60 miles. But the
interesting detail is that you have to rent the battery. That will
cost the driver £80 a month for 7500 miles a year.

So that's 13p/mile just for the battery. And my wife's boring old
petrol car costs.... 13p/mile in petrol.

So the battery charging costs are on top?
yeah, but the gas that runs the power stations doesn't come with a
massive fuel duty slapped on top.
for a 33% efficent car, a litre of fuel is around 3kwh of electricity
worth after the engine has ****ed most up te exhasut.

so at 12p or so per unit, that comes down to 36p a litre for the 'fuel';


The government would collapse from tax starvation take if E-cars ever
took off.

That comment from you of all TNP!

Noooo!, they just find it expedient to tax the Leccy for "road use" !...

I am sure they will simply add a battery disposal tax, a soundless
driver tax, and a smart meter to every charging point, and charge you
100quid to park in the middle of cambridge even if its an electric car,
whether or not you want the supplied electricity or not.

It will be illegal to charge a car other than through a completely
dedicated circuit with a totally unique plug and socket, for which a
separete meter will be provided and VAT added at 300%.


Suppose that Red non - road fuel leccy with be a bit difficult, they'll prolly
have to invent a way of adding "Red electrons" to it;?...


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Ineptocracy

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On 10/08/13 09:50, Brian Gaff wrote:
Incidentally what is the purpose behind buying a car and renting a battery?
Does that mean you can actually rent several batteries and leave one at home
while driving on the other one?
Or do they expect them to pack up so early they need to keep renewing them,
a bit like 1970s Colour TVs?

Brian

The latter.


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Ineptocracy

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On 09/08/2013 23:20, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Nightjar wrote:
I doubt many people actually need a 600 mile range. Few would drive that
distance without stopping - especially in the UK.


I bought the long range tank for my car specifically to give me a better
range than that for when I go touring in Europe. I won't do it non-stop,
but I also don't have to buy fuel at motorway prices.

Where do you stop for the night? Not on a motorway, surely? So buy your
fuel there?

Precisely. With a 600+ mile range I can fill up at whatever town or city
I stop in for the night.

Colin Bignell