Have you noticed fuel prices going up

My sis and B-i-L are stuck in France hoping they can get together enough kangaroo juice to get them back to the ferry at Caen. Every service station is rationing the stuff.

If they miss the ferry, they'll need to stump up for another ticquet.
If they are with Brittany Ferries it is worth them contacting their customer services if they are going to miss the ferry and they will probably let them go on the next one. My brother has been in a similar situation in the past and they let him use his ticket on the next one.
 
Sounds like adding an AC coupled battery storage system would be even more financially lucrative?
Potentially, last month I managed to consume almost 70% of what was generated and only purchased an average of around 3-4kWh a day of peak rate electricity, so not much saving there.
I doubt an AC coupled system would have the inverter capacity or battery capacity to make a huge difference to our electricity bill, even if it halved it it will still only save £400 a year (current prices) for a £5k+ outlay.
 
Then with quite a low annual usage, agree it wouldn't be as cost effecting as I was thinking.
Agreed, over the last 12 months we have used 1.4MWh of peak rate electricity, about £420 worth, 2.9 at off peak rates and approximately 1.5 self consumed solar.
 
Agreed, over the last 12 months we have used 1.4MWh of peak rate electricity, about £420 worth, 2.9 at off peak rates and approximately 1.5 self consumed solar.
You could plug into the car when on the peak rate and use the V2L to soften the bill even further, still borderline being worth the added wiring etc .... probably a case of not messing with a good thing .....

T1 Terry
 
HGV fuel in main services getting hard to find luckily fuel bunker sites still ok but it's starting to bite
Jet A1 is gonna get short soon
Last day driving the Merc
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I thought this was your new ride, not that it was only a trial. Do you think they will buy an electric truck, like the Windrose? A trial in one of those would be an interesting comparison ..... I believe they can charge from one or two CCS2 chargers ....

T1 Terry
 
Back on track, even our Local Sainsburys has now topped £1.50/1.80. They have also coned off half the 16 pumps and split the remainder to either petrol or diesel.
That's about $3.45 ltr over here, after the govt halved the excise tax per ltr, roughly 65c ltr reduction, it's now down to around $3.02 ltr
Still eye watering, they dropped a whole 0.065c ltr of LPG, yet to decide where I'll spend the savings .....

T1 Terry
 
Hmmm... I went on holiday a bit over two weeks ago and diesel was £1.42 / litre, now on my return it is £1.82 / litre, I had to do a double-take. No problems getting diesel down here except the price.

Reminds me I need to get on and trade in my inherited golf diesel for a second hand EV, but I am suspecting that trade-in prices for diesel cars are taking a bit of a hit right now...!
 
Reminds me I need to get on and trade in my inherited golf diesel for a second hand EV, but I am suspecting that trade-in prices for diesel cars are taking a bit of a hit right now...!
The price of second hand EVs won't be doing you any favours at the moment either.
 
The price of second hand EVs won't be doing you any favours at the moment either.
My MG5 is a SR Exclusive 78k miles ,
So that would be a £7500/8000 forecourt price
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The two local Tesco superstores are at similar prices but the Copdoc store had no diesel on Wed. Fortunatly the Morgan takes petrol.
Yesterday the Martlesham Heath store had no fuel at all as did the BP next door but I was in my EV.

I did see on the A140 E10 for 1.65 & diesel for 1.90

Octopus IGO has just reduced from 7p per kWh to 3.49 so the EV will be maxed
 
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