Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?

[Count Steer]

I know right, needs white piping on the seats!

It needs £500 + expenses in KFBs bank account.

[Rockburner]

I know right, needs white piping on the seats!

It needs £500 + expenses in KFBs bank account.

A kinetic strike from orbit is what it needs. Preferably when the person who specced it is driving.

[Slenver]

Fuck'em, it's an omen from the Porsche gods, obviously.

My view on these things is that if you fancy a Porsche, have identified a model of Porsche that would fit the bill, and have the funds to buy a Porsche, then you just need to buy a Porsche.

YOLO and all that shit.

Edit: Just not a pink one.

[Mr. Dazzle]

How about Rubystone Red?

(pink)

[Slenver]

How about Rubystone Red?

(pink)

Hard no

[KungFooBob]

This one looked awful, the flat bits of the wheels are the same body colour, which looks even worse in person.

https://www.v12sportsandclassics.co.uk/ ... 202597677/

[Mr. Dazzle]

I wouldn't necessarily say I want a pink one*, but it's so much more interesting that Primer Grey, Tarmac Grey or British Summer Holiday Grey.

Gotta give Porsche some credit for offering a wider pallette.

Incidentally my current car is violently neon electric blue, they don't make pink ones

*total lie, Pink is my trademark colour

[Slenver]

I wouldn't necessarily say I want a pink one*, but it's so much more interesting that Primer Grey, Tarmac Grey or British Summer Holiday Grey.

Gotta give Porsche some credit for offering a wider pallette.

Incidentally my current car is violently neon electric blue, they don't make pink ones

*total lie, Pink is my trademark colour

I love grey, me.

I bought a new(-ish) car recently and was a big brave boy and bought a blue one. Admittedly very dark blue, with black trim, but it was the first non-black or dark grey car I've had since 2008

[Count Steer]

I'll admit, I've been pondering on a Porsche as my next vehicle.


(But it'll be a Cayenne or a Macan if it is, so, basically I may as well buy an Audi and save some money ).

[v8-powered]

Maybe you just need to find a metallic pink one with purple interior to give you that wow factor.

Where's the vomit emoticon?

My wife's accountant has one of those Lotus SUV things in a similar colour, it is really a 100% mid-life crisis colour!

[Horse]

Interesting development in 'storage'. I have no idea how far this is from effective, widespread, installation. It could be a one-off proof of concept that fails and vanishes.

But if it works (both as a device and with the network), is cheap[er], reliable, and lasts, then it could herald extensive local storage.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/24 ... irst-time/

An iron-air battery in the Netherlands, which can store energy for 100 hours or more to make renewable power sources more consistent, has become the world’s first “rust” battery to connect with an electricity grid.
...
Many grid-connected batteries are now lithium iron phosphate ones manufactured in China. But they typically hold power for just 4 to 6 hours and are prohibitively expensive, says Marie. In contrast, the iron-air batteries developed by Ore Energy can store power for 100 hours or longer and are made from cheap and widely available materials.

“Iron is the most mined metal in the world, it’s incredibly cheap,” says Marie. “And when you combine that with air, which is literally all around us and basically free, those are almost the two cheapest components that you could find.”

[Mr. Dazzle]

Metal oxide batteries have been around, and in use, for ages. I bet @Taff f has seen them in his FAA days.

Every so often there's a news story about how they can make a car drive 1000 miles with one - which is true. They do have teh slight downside of typically being non-rechargeable though.

One which can go 'both ways' is interesting and as the article says rust is cheap. Indeed, normally you're paying to get rid of it!

[Couchy]

So to save miles and short journeys from my VW camper I decided to buy an electric car. Doesn’t need to be fast or have a huge range. Ended up with a 1 year old Nissan Leaf that’s done 7k miles. Cost was £11k, needed another car so it was a replacement. For a year old car it’s good value. Changed tariff to an EV one that is 6.5p a kw for 7 hours. On a 13A plug it’ll get 16kw of charge a night. It’s doing 4.5 miles per kW so around 1.5p a mile. Compared to my diesel doing 37mpg it’s a great saving. Tbh wasn’t expecting much from it as it’s been bought as an alliance but it’s pretty good fun to drive, quick enough and really comfy. Because it’s so smooth and quiet it even feels good jumping out of my E class. Can’t fault it for cheap motoring in a year old car that costs pennies to run

[KungFooBob]

Just paid a deposit, I pick my EV up on Wednesday!

It's not a Porsche, I just couldn't warrant the extra £15k for one and this Beemer has every option except the Laser Lights and Sunroof, where as a Taycan would had to have been poverty spec even for an extra £15k.

Just need to get one of them charger thingies now.

[Taipan]

Just paid a deposit, I pick my EV up on Wednesday!

It's not a Porsche, I just couldn't warrant the extra £15k for one and this Beemer has every option except the Laser Lights and Sunroof, where as a Taycan would had to have been poverty spec even for an extra £15k.

Just need to get one of them charger thingies now.

Make sure you get a decent EV tariif, something like octopus intelligent go and then put your appliances on timer for the benefits of cheap rate leccy too. EVs the gift that keep on giving!

[KungFooBob]

I've been with them for years, I took out a fixed tariff in Feb, I've not looked yet, but assume they'll let me switch to the overnight EV tariff. Looks like it works best with the Ohme charger?

[demographic]

So to save miles and short journeys from my VW camper I decided to buy an electric car. Doesn’t need to be fast or have a huge range. Ended up with a 1 year old Nissan Leaf that’s done 7k miles. Cost was £11k, needed another car so it was a replacement. For a year old car it’s good value. Changed tariff to an EV one that is 6.5p a kw for 7 hours. On a 13A plug it’ll get 16kw of charge a night. It’s doing 4.5 miles per kW so around 1.5p a mile. Compared to my diesel doing 37mpg it’s a great saving. Tbh wasn’t expecting much from it as it’s been bought as an alliance but it’s pretty good fun to drive, quick enough and really comfy. Because it’s so smooth and quiet it even feels good jumping out of my E class. Can’t fault it for cheap motoring in a year old car that costs pennies to run

Thought this one was so much of a sea change that I'd better quote it before it dissappears into the ether.

Just as a matter of interest though, now you have a lecky car, have you noticed just how many are on the road?
That 4.5 miles per Kw is give or take what my electrical engineer climbing buddy gets out of his.
Maybe his is sightly less as he's a big fan of the acceleration.

[Sunny]

I've been with them for years, I took out a fixed tariff in Feb, I've not looked yet, but assume they'll let me switch to the overnight EV tariff. Looks like it works best with the Ohme charger?

They let me switch despite being on a fixed tariff, zero bother

I got an Ohme charger and the bloke installing it said they're good ones. That's as much as I know.

[wheelnut]

So to save miles and short journeys from my VW camper I decided to buy an electric car. Doesn’t need to be fast or have a huge range. Ended up with a 1 year old Nissan Leaf that’s done 7k miles. Cost was £11k, needed another car so it was a replacement. For a year old car it’s good value. Changed tariff to an EV one that is 6.5p a kw for 7 hours. On a 13A plug it’ll get 16kw of charge a night. It’s doing 4.5 miles per kW so around 1.5p a mile. Compared to my diesel doing 37mpg it’s a great saving. Tbh wasn’t expecting much from it as it’s been bought as an alliance but it’s pretty good fun to drive, quick enough and really comfy. Because it’s so smooth and quiet it even feels good jumping out of my E class. Can’t fault it for cheap motoring in a year old car that costs pennies to run

It’s certainly a huge saving on fuel, one I didn’t appreciate fully until I started using it. Mine’s dropped from £300-£400 a month in diesel to £25 - £30 a month in electric. Plus the convenience of never having to fill up with fuel outweighs the rare occasions I have to charge up away from home.

[Taipan]

I've been with them for years, I took out a fixed tariff in Feb, I've not looked yet, but assume they'll let me switch to the overnight EV tariff. Looks like it works best with the Ohme charger?

I only use a granny charger as I don't use my car that often. With Octopus, it logs into the Tesla and stops its charging and only charges it in cheap rate periods, but it'll often charge it in peak times but stilll at cheap rates. It creates a schedule to make sure you achieve the charge required by the time you requested it to be readyd by. I am mightily impressed by all this sorcery and assume Octopus can do all this with other makes EVs?!