Cost to run my ICE car. 🤪

salty said:
Agreed to a certain extent. If you where thinking a an EV of say, £30,000 ish just to save on running costs, the sums might not add up, because of the price of the car in first place. But if your thinking of changing your car anyway, not to save money as such, but just it's time for a change, budget £30,000 ish for ICE or EV.
An EV would certainly be well worth considering on running costs alone. 🙂
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And if you're saving £3,000 a year and have the car for 10 years it's paid for its initial cost ;)
 
salty said:
Agreed to a certain extent. If you where thinking a an EV of say, £30,000 ish just to save on running costs, the sums might not add up, because of the price of the car in first place. But if your thinking of changing your car anyway, not to save money as such, but just it's time for a change, budget £30,000 ish for ICE or EV.
An EV would certainly be well worth considering on running costs alone. 🙂
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Yep at starting point ICE vs EV sure. Breaking even takes a long time. Can't argue that. If you can avoid the pricier chargers and have a charger at home then it's okay. Energy costs are always changing. There are lots of Uber drivers with no chargers at home here in sunny London. I guess they make it work. Although supercharger every day isnt healthy. 👀

Tommy said:
Sure, but if you compare apples to apples ... e.g. I did the sums on a Tweet comparing a new ICE Corsa v EV Corsa, total cost of ownership over 10 years and the EV was cheaper. Sorry I no longer have the sums, gave up on Twitter a long time ago.

Of course it's not just about cost for a lot of us on here ... ;)
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Social media will take all your time, especially when it turns to ICE vs EV as well as media articles jumping the gun lol
 
Rolfe said:
Lots of people saying that lots of DC charging isn't nearly as bad for the battery as had been thought, so I guess they'll probably be fine.
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Yes, the scientists designing the battery chemistries were surprised when tests showed that rather than being detrimental to the battery's health, Rapid charging seemed to improve it. There are probably some caveats to the findings, but it is encouraging.
 
Gadget Geek said:
Yes, the scientists designing the battery chemistries were surprised when tests showed that rather than being detrimental to the battery's health, Rapid charging seemed to improve it. There are probably some caveats to the findings, but it is encouraging.
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Do you have a reference for this?
 
Interestingly, looking at the graphs (Model 3 here and Model Y here), Model 3 vehicles and especially Model Y vehicles that rarely Supercharged had lost more battery capacity, or range, over the same period of time as Model 3 vehicles and Model Y vehicles that frequently Supercharged. However, remember that the difference isn’t statistically significant, so don’t read into that. I’m just highlighting this surprising result to emphasize that the opposite should not be a concern.
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GranTurismoEra said:
How much is that EV to buy if it wasnt a Chinese saviour low cost EV? All European brands start in the mid 30s. Vauxhall Astra EV 40k?

When my mom bought her E Niro for £36,000 on 2020 I bought a gas guzzling v6 petrol for 17k and ran it for 1 and a half years. All costs combined including insurance and fuel/tax didn't exceed 22k. EVs outside of Chinese brands when adding all costs of maintenance and purchase are still more expensive.

I knew a guy who picked up a £500 1 litre car and ran it for a full 12 months. The overall costs weren't over 2k for the 12 months. Sure his street credibility was damaged but cost less overall than any new car or EV.
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As a counter to this. I am a reasonably high mileage driver 20000 a year. My increase in electricity and my loan repayment costs less than my old fuel bill (previous Kia ceed 1.6 diesel estate vs mg ev5) and in 2 yrs I’ll own the ev5 so gets a much better deal then. Plus insurance, tax, service all cheaper on mg.
It’s a no brainer
 
Gadget Geek said:
A study conducted by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) concluded that while an electric car’s battery will deteriorate faster if its only power source is Level 3 charging (which is almost never the case) the difference isn’t particularly pronounced.
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Interestingly, looking at the graphs (Model 3 here and Model Y here), Model 3 vehicles and especially Model Y vehicles that rarely Supercharged had lost more battery capacity, or range, over the same period of time as Model 3 vehicles and Model Y vehicles that frequently Supercharged. However, remember that the difference isn’t statistically significant, so don’t read into that. I’m just highlighting this surprising result to emphasize that the opposite should not be a concern.
cleantechnica.com

Tesla Supercharging Not Harmful To Batteries After All! - CleanTechnica

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! For many years now, it has been advised to not fast charge electric vehicles too much, that doing so could lead to rapid degradation of your EV’s battery. It’s always been unclear how much ... [continued]
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That article is over four years old and the test was done on a couple of 2021 Leafs, for goodness sake. Both of them lost 25% battery capacity! And the conclusion was simply that DC charging isn't so bad, not that it's better.
 
Yes, I know. There was a news article I read recently about researchers being surprised by the results, but I can't find it.

Also, LEAFs are notorious for poor battery management systems, however, there was only a 2% difference between level 2 and level 3 charging over time.

The second article looked at 12,500 Tesla Model 3s and Model Ys and found the same surprising results I'd read about.

Edit: For clarity, I have removed the 4 year old study on the Nissan LEAFs.
 
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I've heard the same from several recent sources, I just thought that study wasn't an especially good example. What I'm really querying is

the scientists designing the battery chemistries were surprised when tests showed that rather than being detrimental to the battery's health, Rapid charging seemed to improve it.
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I'm hearing that rapid charging isn't nearly as detrimental as had been thought, but not that it's actually beneficial.
 
GranTurismoEra said:
How much is that EV to buy if it wasnt a Chinese saviour low cost EV? All European brands start in the mid 30s. Vauxhall Astra EV 40k?

When my mom bought her E Niro for £36,000 on 2020 I bought a gas guzzling v6 petrol for 17k and ran it for 1 and a half years. All costs combined including insurance and fuel/tax didn't exceed 22k. EVs outside of Chinese brands when adding all costs of maintenance and purchase are still more expensive.

I knew a guy who picked up a £500 1 litre car and ran it for a full 12 months. The overall costs weren't over 2k for the 12 months. Sure his street credibility was damaged but cost less overall than any new car or EV.
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Depends, are you willing to go with a used car? There are some very nice deals on used EVs right now. Or wait for the Citroen ec3 to come out for (supposedly) ~£23k.
 
Dacia Spring out in the autumn, approx, 16 grand. Cheap no nonsense EV. Looks pretty good. 🙂👍
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gnutrino said:
Depends, are you willing to go with a used car? There are some very nice deals on used EVs right now. Or wait for the Citroen ec3 to come out for (supposedly) ~£23k.
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Some very good deals on used etrons, ipace etc on pcp from the dealers.
OP's diesel costs would pay the monthly pcp.


Not sure I'd have an ipace without a jlr warranty, but tempting.
etron has terrible range, jag is ok
tesla m3 getting cheap as well.
 
For a second car, it could be perfect. I have friends who are very eco-aware and bought a Leaf in late 2020. Recently they got rid of the husband's petrol Audi - I think they actually scrapped the car rather than selling it, to prevent it continuing a career of pollution. They had basically just been using the Leaf, although it was nominally the wife's car, because it was such a joy to drive.

Except, I'm now detecting a "whose car is it anyway?" and "whose turn is it to have the car?" situation developing. I wouldn't die of shock if a Dacia Spring appeared to take the Audi's place on the driveway. They're not both going to need a long-range car at once, if they go on a long trip they'll both be in the same car. They just need a small runabout for the other to use if one has the Leaf out.
 
Gadget Geek said:
Interestingly, looking at the graphs (Model 3 here and Model Y here), Model 3 vehicles and especially Model Y vehicles that rarely Supercharged had lost more battery capacity, or range, over the same period of time as Model 3 vehicles and Model Y vehicles that frequently Supercharged. However, remember that the difference isn’t statistically significant, so don’t read into that. I’m just highlighting this surprising result to emphasize that the opposite should not be a concern.
cleantechnica.com

Tesla Supercharging Not Harmful To Batteries After All! - CleanTechnica

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! For many years now, it has been advised to not fast charge electric vehicles too much, that doing so could lead to rapid degradation of your EV’s battery. It’s always been unclear how much ... [continued]
cleantechnica.com cleantechnica.com
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It’ll be the use cases surrounding the charging type. If you’re frequent DC fast charging you’re likely doing longer trips and only charging to 80% and not stressing the high end battery capacity. If you’re frequent home charging you’re likely topping up and staying in that high 80% to 100% range far more often, stressing the battery.
 
If you have an EV with V2G capability, Octopus are offering a rate that allows free charging of your car.

Not really sure if any cars, other than those with Chademo, support V2G. Would need Octopus to provide a “charger” that also supports it.
 
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leafowner said:
Some very good deals on used etrons, ipace etc on pcp from the dealers.
OP's diesel costs would pay the monthly pcp.


Not sure I'd have an ipace without a jlr warranty, but tempting.
etron has terrible range, jag is ok
tesla m3 getting cheap as well.
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I was mightily impressed with Edoc’s ipace - really nice.
 
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