3CorsaMeal
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Anyone any experience of these? Going to look at them today, i see the government will give you a grant of £4.5k
I feel this sort of car is worth financing/lease instead of buying.
I do wonder what they cost in electricity to charge up though.
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Gary
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Do you not live with you're parents still? Why do you care what it costs to change up?
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MatthewR
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nathy_87
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fuck ugly cars
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3CorsaMeal
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quote: Originally posted by Gary
Do you not live with you're parents still? Why do you care what it costs to change up?
Don't want to get told off
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3CorsaMeal
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quote: Originally posted by nathy_87
fuck ugly cars
I sort of agree, just been onto the BMW site and didn't really like any of the cars (expect the silly expensive ones)
Back to a VW or Audi i reckon.
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Tiger
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They won't cost much to charge at all, I imagine for an i3 it won't cost more than £2.
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DaveyLC
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You can't just plug these into a standard mains socket either.. You know that right?
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DaveyLC
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And it makes very little financial sense to buy an electric car, they arent worth a wank after 5-7 years due to the cells needing replacement.
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VrsTurbo
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quote: Originally posted by DaveyLC
And it makes very little financial sense to buy an electric car, they arent worth a wank after 5-7 years due to the cells needing replacement.
An i3 comes with a standard 3 pin plug but it takes ages to charge
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DaveyLC
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They are for emergencies if you want a car you can actually use for more than 10 minutes you need to have one of those blue 16amp sockets fitted somewhere straight off the consumer unit
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VrsTurbo
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quote: Originally posted by DaveyLC
They are for emergencies if you want a car you can actually use for more than 10 minutes you need to have one of those blue 16amp sockets fitted somewhere straight off the consumer unit
No they are not you can fully charge the i3 from a 10amp plug in around 13hrs from completely flat.
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taylorboosh
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They fit those sockets free dont they? Yhey kept knocking on my door offering one
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DaveyLC
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quote: Originally posted by VrsTurbo
quote: Originally posted by DaveyLC
They are for emergencies if you want a car you can actually use for more than 10 minutes you need to have one of those blue 16amp sockets fitted somewhere straight off the consumer unit
No they are not you can fully charge the i3 from a 10amp plug in around 13hrs from completely flat.
So as long as you only use your car to get to and from work and don't wish to drive it in an evening you'll be fine
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VrsTurbo
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Ok Davey.
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DaveyLC
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think about it: Most people work 9-5:30 and if you're contemplating an electric car you probably don't work 10 minutes up the road!
Say your commute is an hour each way you have no opportunity to charge between 8am and 18:30 (best case) .
Between 18:30 and 8am is 13.5 hours.. If its a 13 hour charge time your car therefore becomes just a means to get to and from work..
Granted most people wont use a complete charge in their commute but if you did want to use the car outside the commute you're not going to have the spare time to make up for the extra charge time
[Edited on 02-06-2016 by DaveyLC]
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taylorboosh
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Yea because they need fully charging every day
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whitter45
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Our company supply the charging points for BMW - we have a national agreement
2015-06-25 19.52.04 by Paul Whitt82, on Flickr
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DaveyLC
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quote: Originally posted by taylorboosh
Yea because they need fully charging every day
They do if you want to run it purely as an EV.. its got like an 80 mile range
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taylorboosh
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You said ten miles each way?
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DaveyLC
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I said if you work like 10 miles up the road you WONT be buying an EV..
If you're going to analyse everything I type at least read it.
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nathy_87
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Actually said 10 minutes but who's really reading any of this?
[Edited on 02-06-2016 by nathy_87]
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DaveyLC
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taylorboosh
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Not sure why i would buy an electric car based on distance
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ARD1
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im looking at either the 330e or the GTE golf have you seen them?
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