Electric vehicles will cost more to run than petrol vehicles after October

Clive

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Arable Farmer
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Lichfield
message from my wife this morning -power cut last night ment car didn’t charge 🤣
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Clive

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
What happened to the battery storage? Shouldn't that have kicked in when you had the power cut?

we don't waste our battery on the car when we can use cheap off peak so car charger is set to use cheap rate mains only at the right times at this time of year when PV generation is low. Batteries are also filling when car is charging off peak even in summer as I can sell the power back on peak for less than it cost off peak !
 

Clive

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield

Cheesehead

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Kent
I believe our neighbours are still waiting for their smart charging hub to be warrantied but the electrician doesn't want to know as he is fed up with the manufacturers and the manufacturers are taking their time and messing around as they have said it is a faulty board and they are still on back order
 
you need electricity to make hydrogen .............f


and I know of absolutely nowhere I could fill up my Hydrogen car


.........someone remind me why its "better" ?


Oh come on, where is your sense of adventure- who wouldn't want a tank of hydrogen on board in their car accompanying them on their travels? Nothing ever happened in the history of transportation involving hydrogen...









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Scrambler

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Location
Leicestershire
we don't waste our battery on the car when we can use cheap off peak so car charger is set to use cheap rate mains only at the right times at this time of year when PV generation is low. Batteries are also filling when car is charging off peak even in summer as I can sell the power back on peak for less than it cost off peak !
Interesting. Is that all done through your energy supplier? I’m with Octopus business and I don’t think they offer anything like that, unfortunately.
 

Cheesehead

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Kent
Oh come on, where is your sense of adventure- who wouldn't want a tank of hydrogen on board in their car accompanying them on their travels? Nothing ever happened in the history of transportation involving hydrogen...
The same could said about both petrol and lithium cars with petrol being the SFX go to for fireballs.
 

Dave645

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Arable Farmer
Location
N Lincs
you need electricity to make hydrogen .............f


and I know of absolutely nowhere I could fill up my Hydrogen car


.........someone remind me why its "better" ?
I agree, as that is what I said in my post, the link I shared was for bio fuel made from wood.
 

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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024

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Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
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