Car (or bike) Chat!

[Macca]

I don't know a thing about bikes but that looks pretty serious.

Is the gear change on the handlebars?

[Pigmy Pony]

No, as with most bikes bigger than a moped the gearchange is operated by the left foot, with left handlebar lever being for clutch and right one for front brake. Accelerator is right hand twistgrip. So pretty much the complete opposite to a car's controls.

It's supposed to be very easy to ride, but being longer, lower, and 100kg heavier than my Fireblade, as well as having weaker brakes and piss poor ground clearance, it might take a bit of getting used to. But riding something that'll slow me down might be just what the doctor ordered

[dave2010]

Chargeplace Scotland "strikes" again.

Yet another SNAFU from Chargeplace Scotland. Now they have changed their payment provider, but seemingly as usual, trying to make sense of this or get any kind of information from phone help lines fails.
I generated a new password, thinking I could put in the new payment details - as indicated, but almost needless to say it doesn't seem to work. I spent 45 minutes yesterday hanging on a phone wondering if I would ever get to speak to a sentient being.
Gave up and had dinner instead.

I noticed recently that a [hopefully] well respected German scientist, who has in the past recommended electric cars is now recommending hybrid cars, as she says that the electricity networks aren't going to be capable enough in the relatively short term.
Further, she admits that she has recently replaced her old car with a petrol car! Reason - wherever she lives in Germany only has one acccessible public charging point - and presumably she does need to travel more than a few km down the road most weeks for shopping etc.

We mostly manage with home charging - which works fine for local trips - but the occasional longer trip requires more planning.

Not only is the EV charging network fragmented into different niches, and chargers are often too slow, or occupied, or out of order, but the overall administration is still pretty bad.

[Pigmy Pony]

When driving down the M61 past Rivington services on Sunday, I saw a sign there giving not just fuel prices, but also charging cost for evs. It said 65p per kWh. Is that expensive? How far would your average battery car go with 1 kWh? Just curious.

[Barry]

I think it depends on the car and its battery.

Adrian (AJSki2fly) is probably the best person to answer your question.

[Barry]

1 hp = 746W, so 1kW = 1000/746 = 1.34 hp.

I don't think you would get very far on 65p worth of "fuel".

[Pigmy Pony]

A rough calculation tells me I get about 4.5 miles for 65p worth of diesel with my Volvo S60.

[Macca]

Tesla 'Y' is quoted as 100 Km on 17.3 Kwh.

They reckon it's the equivalent of 153 miles per gallon.

Those are probably best case figures ofc.

[AJSki2fly]

I think it depends on the car and its battery.

Adrian (AJSki2fly) is probably the best person to answer your question.

Tesla’s generally average over a year, 4 uk miles/kWh, so 65p is £0.1625 per mile or if thinking in 40mile terms £6.50 which is roughly the cost of 1 gallon of petrol at present.

As I have said many times before we average £0.03/mile as 75% of our charging is overnight at £0.075/kWh

New EVs are coming out that are achieving +5miles/kWh and Ceely has just released an EV with a range of 600 miles real world

[AJSki2fly]

Just driven up to Alan(Bigbottle) and back today, just worked out miles per kWh and it is 4.65, pretty good considering I was cruising slight over limits and had heating on am and air con pm. Total kWh used 65, 43kwh cost £19.14 and 22 cost £1.65, total £20.79, which is £0.07/mile or if comparing with 40mpg ICE vehicle equivalent to £2.80 a gallon


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