Monthly Mileage

[fatboyfat1981]

Spurred from booking Moby in for his 1st service after almost 15k miles, interested in seeing how much other bods use their ZS

 

[Gadget Geek]

Varies by time of year. During the winter when hedgehogs are asleep, it's just local driving. When they wake up I go all over Somerset and rescue the orphaned, ill, or injured ones for a local rescue centre. 600 - 1000 miles a month

 

[Maciej]

Had a car exactly for a year 8000 miles on the clock. I work as mental health and wellbeing practitioner for NHS so I do combination of getting to base from my house, working from home, training miles and home visits plus day trip here and there over weekend with kids.

 

[suz]

I work in km (Australian) so just had to google the conversion but I’ve had the mg for 5 months and as of last week am officially overdue for the 20,000 km service. apparently all of this means that my car is averaging about 2,500 miles per month

 

[fatboyfat1981]

I work in km (Australian) so just had to google the conversion but I’ve had the mg for 5 months and as of last week am officially overdue for the 20,000 km service. apparently all of this means that my car is averaging about 2,500 miles per month

Christ on an (electric) bike, finally found someone who does more than I do!

Excellent work!

 

[N2STY]

This made me just look at January almost 2k miles and the bill was £22 for 600kwh thanks OVO

 

[Susanna]

@N2STY
Fantastic savings over ICE. Well done!

 

[fatboyfat1981]

This made me just look at January almost 2k miles and the bill was £22 for 600kwh thanks OVO

Nice. Not on that cheap of a deal- 32p/kWh at home, 15p at work.

Having said that, Ovo have just let me add the 10p/kWh overnight EV thing, provided I’m not on max charging.

Its a 75ish mile round trip to work, currently averaging around 3.2-3.4 m/kWh, so a daily topup is 23.5ish kWh or about £8 at home or £3.53 on the work charger

@N2STY
Fantastic savings over ICE. Well done!

Totally agree. The net cost to me for Moby is £250 a month for four years on my milage once you take into account fuel & maintenance savings.

 

[N2STY]

@N2STY
Fantastic savings over ICE. Well done!

Yes it's saves over £500 on the jeep for the same 2k miles 66 litres of diesel so I am loving electrons and the jeep is just sat on the drive I need to replace it
Edit not 66 litres I mean gallons 300 litres

Having said that, Ovo have just let me add the 10p/kWh overnight EV thing, provided I’m not on max charging

OVO have just opened 10p anytime charging to all tariffs now even new customers on capped rate

OVO good News 10p anytime

OVO anytime 10pkw charging 24\7 is now available to anyone with OVO now including new customers You previously had to have OVO drive to qualify but now open to everyone OVO have no tariffs deals right now just variable but you can still at anytime charging for free MG is not compatible but some...

www.mgevs.com

It is also easy to get max charge(at10p) using schedule charging as 4 A smart charger it's quite stupid which works in my favour

 

[fatboyfat1981]

OVO have just opened 10p anytime charging to all tariffs now even new customers on capped rate

OVO good News 10p anytime

OVO anytime 10pkw charging 24\7 is now available to anyone with OVO now including new customers You previously had to have OVO drive to qualify but now open to everyone OVO have no tariffs deals right now just variable but you can still at anytime charging for free MG is not compatible but some...

www.mgevs.com

It is also easy to get max charge(at10p) using schedule charging as 4 A smart charger it's quite stupid which works in my favour

Up to them if they want to offer that price, itd be silly not to take advantage of it.

My maths pre purchase worked out as electricity needed to be at 50p/kWh to be par with diesel at 44mpg @ £1.50/l, any delta reinforces the choice

 

[N2STY]

My maths pre purchase worked out as electricity needed to be at 50p/kWh to be par with diesel at 44mpg @ £1.50/l, any delta reinforces the choice

Like you I worked out mine at 30mpg so even at standard tariff prices I'm saving the but when I was getting changed 5pkw it was a massive saving now at 10pkw still big savings not be all and end all but definitely a Brucie bonus

 

[Tim Green]

Does that still apply if you factor in the interest on capital of higher cost of EV over ICE?

 

[N2STY]

Yes car pays for it's self easily just by using my old diesel fuel bill so now looking at a replacement for the jeep but can't make my mind up on which 4x4 EV to get

 

[Maciej]

Does that still apply if you factor in the interest on capital of higher cost of EV over ICE?

Not that well if you don't plan your whole life around charging and cheap tariff if you want to be able to do things like normal person you are looking at 33p/Kwh it's cheaper long term but ling term is 15 years and noone is keeping their 22 MG ZS for next 15 years

 

[Tim Green]

I made a choice to purchase an EV and I don't regret it. However, I seriously doubt that I am saving money, in either long or short term. My mercedes E class estate has done sterling work for 15 years, what does that cost to run compared with an EV.?

 

[Maciej]

It's hard to compare because you would need to compare similar cars. Obviously keeping old car is cheaper than buying new car no doubt about it.

New Mercedes E Class is £47,340

New MG ZS ling Range £35,495

So just on it's own is cheaper.

For just driving cost. It costs me approximately £60-70 to do around 1000 miles similar distance in a mercedes E class is £125 so you are paying twice as much for travel.

Service on MG ZS is the same as service on normal car but there is less things to do. My break pads are spotless because I hardly ever break using regen breaking instead. Today's service was just a check up with no work done

On the other hand you can get a brand new petrol car for £19,345 like Peugeot 208 or £12,155 for Dacia then savings over MG ZS will be much less and will take longer if ever.

So for savings with EV answer is "maybe"

 

[Tim Green]

I think your last paragraph is where I started from!
Its virtually impossible to compare, and taking just petrol vs electric costs is not valid.

 

[N2STY]

If you was going to be replacing your car anyway then it's just the bit on top (there is also quite a few under 15k now 2nd hand) not the whole price of the car everyone is going to be having a different scenarios I can only comment from my prescriptive for me it pays for it's self and frees up enough to consider another one a bit more up market but maybe not brand new

There are also other massive savings available depending on where you live or where you commute to congestion charge and low emission zones

 

[Gadget Geek]

Let's not forget one other saving . . . Lives. The nine year old Ella Kissi-Debrah had her cause of death recorded as air pollution from living on a main road which had high levels of nitrous oxides and particulates. The Global Burden of Disease study (GBD) estimates that in 2019, 4.5 million people died prematurely from outdoor air pollution (from PM2.5 and ground-level ozone).

 

[suz]

Christ on an (electric) bike, finally found someone who does more than I do!

Excellent work!

The other day I met somebody who does more than I do for the first time! He’s a full time Uber driver in the older version of the ZS ev and does an average of 10,000 km per month which is (…let me go and google that…) 6,200 miles per month.

Apparently Uber negotiated good deals on some evs and they cut their commission for ev drivers, and he’s super happy