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Originally Posted by Paul
£300 to £350 a month on petrol ?
Thats a lot of driving, or you have very expensive petrol.
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It would probably be more now! I went electric 18 months ago and before that I had an Audi A4 45 TFSI with a 2 litre 250 HP petrol engine. I was filling up at Costco usually about every 6 days. The money we've saved on petrol covers the payments on the electric car.
It used to be about £65ish every tank and I'd get maybe 300 miles or so. The Volvo we swapped to uses about 30KwH per 100 miles so 300 miles would be 90KwH. At our current night rate of 4.74p that's about £4.25. A no brainer - added to that work still pay me 55p a mile so even better.
The down side is our regular trips to Wales mean a stop enroute but we tie it in with toilet breaks etc and it's OK. I'll never go back to petrol and when we go out in Mrs G's MX5 to give it a run it hurts!!
I'm also aware we're so lucky we can afford the solar, batteries and electric car and really do feel for people who are struggling. I do union work all day so meet many many people who are struggling through no fault of their own, but that's a rant for another thread/day.