Running two EVs?

[gangzoom]

dave_s13 said:

What this actually ends up costing in retirement is impossible to calculate without some specialist advice.

Give you a rough guide, just bare in mind the pension amount is per year you remain alive, and if you take salary sacrifice at a significant amount each year the accumulative effect is quite big.

https://www.benefitseveryone.co.uk/salary-sacrific...

You are in effect trading very short temporary gratification for long term benefit, if you are over £40K+ annual pension contribution limit and want to reduce a potential tax bill than it will work out, but it is in-effect still a hire car, so any payments you make is not actually contributing towards owing the car at the end of the term.

Edited by gangzoom on Sunday 19th January 10:28

[granada203028]

gangzoom said:

Even with 2 EVs that's pretty much impossible if you have gas heating+water. This was our electricity usage/demand over last Christmas, 8 people in a 5 bed room house. Peak demand barely reached 30amp and that was for very brief periods. For one EV even a 60amp fuse is fine for most households if you're charging over night.

Yes no problem with average demand at least in the short term and with many on gas heating as you say but there is no peak demand management?

100A looks generous, if your unlucky and get a few houses in the street on the same phase all approaching it then I can see problems with neutral current etc.

[dave_s13]

gangzoom said:

Give you a rough guide, just bare in mind the pension amount is per year you remain alive, and if you take salary sacrifice at a significant amount each year the accumulative effect is quite big.

https://www.benefitseveryone.co.uk/salary-sacrific...

You are in effect trading very short temporary gratification for long term benefit, if you are over £40K+ annual pension contribution limit and want to reduce a potential tax bill than it will work out, but it is in-effect still a hire car, so any payments you make is not actually contributing towards owing the car at the end of the term.

Edited by gangzoom on Sunday 19th January 10:28

Cheers. If that's to be believed it looks fairly minimal really.

How the fek does a car priced at just short of 60k come out at this price?

[gangzoom]

dave_s13 said:

Cheers. If that's to be believed it looks fairly minimal really.

How the fek does a car priced at just short of 60k come out at this price?

Same as the cheap iPace deals and the £200/month no deposit Leaf deals.....essentially hidden manufacture discounts not available to the general public to try and hide a demand/supply mismatch.

[mabell1980]

I’m in a similar situation. Having a garage added so have the ability to put one or two chargers in if I went all in on EV. I’ve also got OVO coming round to do a site survey for their vehicle to grid pilot.

Our runaround freelander failed its MOT last month so jumped on a Leaf deal. Now my S4 is up next month and I’m seriously considering an e tron given the current deals available.

I’m struggling to see past the fuel savings which should equate to around £6000 over the 2 year term (for both leases) effectively making the Leaf lease free. What am I missing here?

[rog007]

Nowt!

I’ll be running two in 18 months.