Took the e to Warwick, 77 miles or 80 ish with a detour via Caffeine and Machine (which was dead btw)

Arrived with about 10% so quite bad (if you hoof these cars they drink a bit.. hoof meaning >nsl)
put it on charge on Bee Pee...

Car said I ain't chargin.. BP said you are..
I left it..

never charged..

a call to then later got it working. Twatty devices

26kwh apparently. So £10 in Bee Pee money, £7.28 at home (way down), total round trip of say 170-180 miles for £17 ish

used a lot less on the way back, arrived with 35% left as was a lot of traffic so no lead boots

moral? Trust the e, not bee wazz
Very comfy for 3 + dog but laddo in the back is 10 so...

Mate talked about his XC90, a failed clutch between motor and engine cost him £3k which Volvo paid half of.. the complexity of hybrid. Not very old or high miles.

 

Suffering range anxiety jitters I sold my 'e' on carwow for £27.5k with sub 4000 miles 2yo. Another main dealer had a 5 month old Skoda Fabia DCT less miles immaculate £19.5k. Backed out when (a) planned 130 mile trip and back wrt known good chargers e.g. Instavolt, Gridserve (b) realised a lump sum gain of £8k would have cost 12.5% pa interest due to running costs. Fabia £190 tax £200 service £650 petrol. 'e' no tax 5yr service plan bought with the car and electricity on Octopus Agile (now Go) under £50 for my approx 2000 miles. Both cars similar depreciation to date helped of course by the Govt grant when I bought the 'e' for £32k with about £1k extras (which of course you don't get back but they can help with sales appeal).

'e' by gum til ah catch me death o cold (see words of Ilkley Moor Ba t'at)

 

It's a big difference both ends

my stocky S2000 costs £295 tax (I think)

£200 insurance22mpg and 1k miles.. is £8 a gallon reasonable? £363

Service I do myself, probably average £100

£950 so a quid a mile


e6k miles£0 service (a pollen filter)

£0 tax3.6 m/KW AVG.. this year that cost prob AVG 23p?
(Now 27p, god knows what tomorrow) so 1,666 kWh x £0.23 = £383 'fuel'
insurance is £250 I think

total £623 so about 11p a mile?

And it is such a nice little thing to shoot abaaaht in.. it's no s2000 but it shits all over a kumkwat

Think I will go for some solar panels to cut it even more

 

Interesting way to look at the numbers. Smile factor values! My 'e' 2,000 miles at 2.5p/mile. Skoda Fabia DCT est 50p/mile. Your 'e' 11p (more miles). S £1/mile.

Although who knows what might happen to fuel costs either way (petrol or electricity). I am on a 'Go' tariff fixed at 7.5p low rate until August 2023.

2kWh peak solar panels and inverter would be ~£5k here in sunny Norfolk. Not a dependable source in winter though. ROI?!

 

I am paying 27p Rog.. std variable arse in the air no lube tariff
I will crunch some numbers.. in for an estimate with a local firm

For a more like for like compare
Err indoors kumkwat
£220 tax£120 ins35mpg (it's about the same weight supposedly but feels twice it)
For 6k it's 171 gallons of squirt £1371
Service was maybe £100 parts again, I did plugs, coolant, oil, air filter, rear pads
£1800 ish? 30p a mile?

And awful in every way. Air con fails in all of these cars, handling bad, pig iron construction
Underpowered, horrible. But big

 

Just realised I omitted insurance for mine - adds 10.5p/mile to both, so 'e' 13p/mile Fabia 60.5p/mile. That leaves our e's about the same ish.

£220 tax £120 ins £40 MOT £1400 diesel £1800 service dealer labour £100 parts = £3700 for 6k miles so approx 60p/mile*.

*omitting steam clean / decontamination / personal insurance for the hostile-to-sentient-creatures environment.

Interestingly the Fabia at my 2k miles and your Quashqai at 6k miles cost about the same/mile.
Except the latter would probably no longer be depreciating by much I am guessing.

 

no, the kumkwat is thirsty at c35mpg but worth about £50 (if you are stevie wonder and suffered loss of sense of smell from da covid)

i will get her something else next year, Mazda 6 touring, something i can throw shit in the back of and not care

its as per my original guesswork so far, the e is pricey to buy (much worse now) and very frugal to drive.. also really rather nice to drive

 

Did Brum and back, 116 miles round trip on a single electron cloud.. had 10% left when I got back.

Struggling to find a solar installer not inundated

Considering getting rid while the market is daft and energy is like hen's teeth, may as well run a C63 for a bit

 

Took the wheels off for a clean and inspection


It all looks mostly normal behind there though you can see where the cash went on the suspension

 

Not that we buy owt from China but MG's new BEV comes in under £26k range >200 miles.

Of course if you want heated seats satnav all bells and whistles £32k.

Compared with Honda 'e' now what £36k?
Still looks cuter


This colour only available in top of range spec