The Pointless Page

What is pointless Malcolm, is maintaining the fantasy it is going to save you £45 a week.

Based on figures you have supplied the EV is going to cost circa £10,000 more over the four years than keeping your current vehicle. That's without any down payment you may have to make. Your fuel saving based on £12,000 miles per annum, is more likely to be around £7000 at current prices. So plenty of scope there for inflation and who's to say the CC and others won't start charging for the electric over the next 4 years.

Well that was a pointless exercise.😂

Saving could be as high as £8,000 Steve. 

However in a couple of years I can see sites charging £2 or £3 a night to connect a car. If I was charging up on a CL I would look to contributing say an extra £15 a week to the owner and particularly during summer months. 

As I said on another thread the killer for me would be having a car with insufficient range for my full days needs. Gatwick to Worthing and back must be over 65 miles. 15 miles for deliveries. Does not leave much capacity in the summer - not enough in the winter and that assumes no trips out with OH in the day. For me it simply does not stack up from a practical viewpoint. Is there all day long access to the dealership's charger I also wonder? 

A friend of mine won around £200 in a casino whilst we were away abroad Steve. He treated us both to a meal. During the conversation I learned that it had only cost him £250 or so to win it 

When I dropped OH and grand sprogs at theatre ,on Friday,  I went to our Kia dealer to enquire if the hibrid could be used for towing,and was assured that is could, until I checked,  the kerbweight was fine,but when looking deeper in the brochure in the extra bit giving all the information, it showed tow weights and weight on the hook as zero for everything,so a salesman looking at his "bonus"is not a reliable source of info,so a pointless trip

Your right JVB you only have to look on here over the years for people who say they ask the salesman a question and they either don't know or what they tell them turns out to baloney.  I went into a showroom a couple of weeks ago and showed interest in a car that I would consider buying. cash only,  the salesman tried everything to get me agree a PCP deal.  He was just about to chain me on to the rack when I walked out.  The commission they get on these  PCP type deals must be massive that they don't want to sell cars for cash. Pointless to me

Just as an aside: In 2016, the total amount of car loans being carried by consumers was £58 billion, more than double what it was in 2012. To put that into perspective, a recent Italian bank bailout was only £15 billion. 

I would have no interest in PCP type deals either. If I was contemplating a EV that might be different however as with improvements to battery technology or simply extra atteriesit could be that i 3 years time I could have a car with less appeal because of range.

There's access from at least 8 a.m. when the service centre opens to 6 p.m. when it closes.

On my existing car the daylight lights dim slightly when the side lights or headlights are switched on.

It's about 30 miles commute from Gatwick to where I work. So I will need to do the commute from a full charge and have two-thirds charge remaining on arrival, so a fast charge top-up at the dealer in Portslade would take less than an hour. So I can start work with a full charge. So I woukd be able to do up to 40 miles at work whilst still having enough charge left to get back to Gatwick.

And what time do you start work Malcolm? Will you have to go earlier to charge? 

Yes. My plan is to travel in the afternoon in daylight. If I can get to the dealer at about 4.30 p.m. the charge will be completed by 5.30 p.m. ready to start my 6 p.m. shift. I usually start at 6 p.m. The dealer in Portslade is very close to where I work in Lancing and even closer to some of my customers in Shoreham.

I can't see how the sites can charge any more than the normal site fee for a slow charge using your caravan three pin socket?

Trips out in the day would be very easy. Short trips for shopping etc. would use very little charge that could easily be topped up on return to the caravan.