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Doubts about EVs
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--- Quote from: SteveD CB500K0 on June 24, 2023, 12:24:50 PM ---And yet all new taxis are electric in London. I don’t see a collapse in numbers.
ULEZ coming to a city near you soon.
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I am sure i read somewhere that they made a load of electric only black cabs and then the company told the mayor of London that they required 16,000 charging station just for black cabs, so it went back to the drawing board and they made hybrid taxi's. They can get away with calling them electric as, they are electric motor driven to the wheels but, have a 1500 cc petrol engine to charge the battery.
I read in a mag latterly that they have been told to only run with the electric when they have a fare on board, and run on the petrol engine to charge up when, no fare is on board .
taysidedragon:
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on June 24, 2023, 03:02:43 PM ---A good friend of mine has a Toyota Auris Estate - Petrol self charging Hybrid it's always well over 50 mpg even including local runs.
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These hybrid fuel figures are pretty crap. My 1.5 diesel Kadjar has just averaged 59.9 mpg over 480 miles including traffic holdups. 👍
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
That's a lot better than my Jeep Grand Cherokee 3.0 Diesel on a run to Chester & back I am delighted with 25 mpg.
However to put that into perspective I spent £1341.14 on diesel in my motor in 2022 up from £857.04 in 2021 so if I could find a SUV that did 50 mpg I would save around £675 in fuel costs.
Trouble is at the age of 75 with a vehicle worth £1500 ish in part exchange how much would I need to spend to actually save any money within my likely life span?
I currently fancy a Toyota Rav4 but would need to fork out £18k to get a decent one to last me - hence why I will run thew Jeep until it fails another Mot might be next year might be the year after.
Oddjob:
My 2.2 Twin Turboed Diesel Mazda 3 returns 50-60mpg most times, even in traffic it doesn't go below 45mpg and costs £20 a year to tax. Bugger that for part exing for an electric car. Mate of mine had a breakdown and had to hire an electric car to go to Scotland to visit relatives, took him 11 hours to get them because they had to stop and recharge so often. Not a fan.
SteveD CB500K0:
ULEZ still coming.
Hybrids or not.
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