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I guess it can be quite hard to separate out exactly what's being used by the rest of the house and what's being used by the charger? The "app" that came with my car, tells me I've used 103 kWh so far this month, but I've no idea whether that's electricity that enters the onboard charger or...

You could always go back to getting rinsed for diesel, if it's a real problem for you...?

That part is - but that doesn't mean the losses are any less enormous. However, it doesn't take into account the energy used to get it from the refinery into the tank. We need to decide what we're moaning about here - overall system efficiency or inaccuracies in the "official" figures quoted...

Hi All, We're in a wet part of the world! The house was built in 1995 and extended in 2008. The roof and pebbledash are decidedly grubby and mossy. We were thinking of getting it cleaned, a few cracks in the pebbledash repaired, and coated with that "ProPerla" water resistant, breathable...

Just like if an ICE car manufacturer posts up an "official" fuel consumption of 50 miles to the gallon, but you find you're only averaging 45 - except massively cheaper! I think just about everyone knows about them? As you said earlier, the vast majority of the petrol or diesel people buy...

Hi All, We're in a wet part of the world! The house was built in 1995 and extended in 2008. The roof and pebbledash are decidedly grubby and mossy. We were thinking of getting it cleaned, a few cracks in the pebbledash repaired, and coated with that "ProPerla" water resistant, breathable...

See Post #46. Odometer accuracy is covered in ECE Reg 39, which is a type approval requirement for mass-produced cars in GB and EU. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202501902 Annex 4 if you're interested.

Yes, they take more energy to produce. 20,000 seems like a reasonable figure to break-even with the equivalent ICE on CO2 emissions, when charged from the UK national grid. It might be more like 30-40,000 miles in a place like Poland where a lot of the electricity is generated using coal, and...

That's a bizarre way of looking at it?! You're conflating two different issues there? Your previous posts have been complaining about the discrepancy between kWh you put in the other vehicle and kWh that the vehicle says it has consumed. Now you've switched to what you're paying for it? The...

The regulation for speedometers (on mass-produced cars, at least) demands that they should never under-read (which is fair enough, I guess). They're allowed to over-read by up to 10% + 2.5 MPH. The result of that is that all car speedometers over-read slightly - typically 5% or so, in a modern...

Not really. (or even "if" it's going t happen at all)! The proposal is that it will be recorded at each MOT and for cars newer than 3 years old, you'll have to make an appointment to take it to an MOT station to have your mileage read. You can pay a voluntary amount ad there will be an...

I'd hope that a bit of shopping-around would reduce that. Most of the people I know who insure their own EVs are paying the same or slightly more than their ICEs. A few are even paying a bit less! Sure, expensive to fix if you bend them, but on the other hand, FAR less likely to get stolen...

No, of course I don't! I never, for once second, imagined that the incentives would last forever. I've saved an absolute mint this last three years, but yeah, I always knew the day would come when I would have to shoulder my fair share of the burden. I'm slightly surprised that it has come quite...

Yes, I'm dreading 2028, when my running costs might be as high as 5p / mile... ;)

EV brakes tend to last forever. A bigger problem - especially if gently-driven all the time, will be sticking calipers, because then hardly ever get to do anything. Depreciation will change. In fact, I think used EV prices have already rallied somewhat, since the world's best EV salesman...

:ROFLMAO: Nice bit of AI going on there...;)

Do you know if it has a heat pump or a resistive heater? Mine has a heat pump, which are more efficient than the resistive heaters (the latter is effectively a 3 bar electric fire behind the dash with a fan blowing over it). At around 0 degrees C ambient, mine will lose about 20-25% range...

Funny enough, I was doing the cam belt on my car over the weekend, and that necessitates dropping the coolant, so I thought I'd change the radiator while I was at it. In terms of construction, they were very different. The one on the left is the Nissens one. The one on the right, is the...

Yes, really! The 2001 "Euro 3" Freelander sat on my drive has a combustion heater. As did various VAG cars that I had as company cars as late as maybe 10 years ago. They burn diesel from the fuel tank and dump the heat into the cooling system. They have no cat or DPF. That was fine when the...

Some do, but that's going out of fashion now.