What have you just bought?

[Dude111]

Yes those electric pumps are quite handy!!

I have a blow up mattress that has a built in pump and man am I glad!! (It keeps losing air)

[thenry]

A bike, a medium marin wolf ridge 6.9 140 xc

https://www.pinkbike.com/product/marin/Wolf-Ridge-6.9/

Slight different colour scheme, mine is white black orange. Bike was £200. I travelled to Tunbridge Wells to get it this morning.

I've also purchased a brand new Shimano SLX groupset 3x9 for it £270.

Also a brand new kryptonite 1055 chain bike lock £40.

[nashville]

Gloss paint , going to clean up the paintwork

[tweetiepooh]

A Meater Pro Duo so I can monitor my slow braai cooks better. Although I bought it, my Mum paid for it as a birthday present. (You are only 60 once!)

[Taf]

2 second-class stamps at 87p each. I was asked if I would prefer first-class for ONLY £1.70 each.

[Jaymoss]

A second hand little bit ropey muddy fox racer. Needed new cables and a bit of a rub down and spray to make it look decent but was cheap and will make a good spare

[nashville]

An order from my local butcher

[Itshim]

Not bought yet looking at a EV not sure worth getting to use around town. Can't get a straight answer on how long a charge holds , ie drive once or twice a week.

They hold the charge for at least 2/3 weeks, so your fine using it 1 - 2 times a week.

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by Paul

They hold the charge for at least 2/3 weeks, so your fine using it 1 - 2 times a week.

Thank you , even a "small" one .

Originally Posted by Itshim

Thank you , even a "small" one .

I’ve yet to leave mine 2-3 weeks without a top-up but it will go a full fortnight at the beginning of July when we’re on holiday. I can let you know how it fares in mid July if that’s not too late for you. Best I can say so far is it dropped about 1-2% when I left it a week recently.

I have a Dacia Spring, which is the cheapest ‘full size’ small electric car on the market. It’s cheap as chips but great value as long as you really don’t ever need to go out of town in it.

[mrmistoffelees]

Phantom drain on EVs is very model dependant, I believe on a Tesla with sentry mode etc you can expect to see perhaps a decrease of a couple of percent every couple of days

I’ve had both my taycan and my wife’s rsq8 parked at the airport and come back after two or three weeks with zero loss to the battery

Some things you should consider

1. The quoted range ? Forget it it’s all dependant on your driving style
2. Cold weather ? Knock 20% off the quoted range
3. Many manufacturers advise to charge to 80% capacity for day to day use only charging to 100% when you’re going on a long journey
4. If you’re buying used make sure you get a battery health report , repeated rapid DC charging will over time cause the battery to degrade quicker

So for example our very first EV was an Audi q4 40 sportback

Quoted range 312 miles at 100%
Charges to 80% during summer approx: 249 miles range
Charge to 80% during winter approx:205’miles range

Driving round town you’ll can use regen to add charge back on motorways you need to be using adaptive cruise control if available.

An EV with a heatpump will also help

[Taf]

2 NiMh AAA batteries for one of the home phones. Our daughter was about to rush out and buy another 4-phone system, when all it needed was 2 cheap batteries.

[Itshim]

Red

Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

Phantom drain on EVs is very model dependant, I believe on a Tesla with sentry mode etc you can expect to see perhaps a decrease of a couple of percent every couple of days

I’ve had both my taycan and my wife’s rsq8 parked at the airport and come back after two or three weeks with zero loss to the battery

Some things you should consider

1. The quoted range ? Forget it it’s all dependant on your driving style
2. Cold weather ? Knock 20% off the quoted range
3. Many manufacturers advise to charge to 80% capacity for day to day use only charging to 100% when you’re going on a long journey
4. If you’re buying used make sure you get a battery health report , repeated rapid DC charging will over time cause the battery to degrade quicker

So for example our very first EV was an Audi q4 40 sportback

Quoted range 312 miles at 100%
Charges to 80% during summer approx: 249 miles range
Charge to 80% during winter approx:205’miles range

Driving round town you’ll can use regen to add charge back on motorways you need to be using adaptive cruise control if available.

An EV with a heatpump will also help

Ok so what the charge costs doesn't matter, off grid . More interested in how often I would need to do it . And if I need to go unexpectedly would it be good, my other car does gallons to the mile not the other way round. So use many to go to Oxford , France etc. just for a guide my little car gets a full tank twice a year. Coming up to 3 years old , done just under 1500 miles . So looking to trade in. Yes I know !!!! so something like £5,000 more than a petrol to buy , would save £90 per year in fuel costs , dearer insurance ( I have checked) add charging point say £500 not looking worth bothering with

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Red
Ok so what the charge costs doesn't matter, off grid . More interested in how often I would need to do it . And if I need to go unexpectedly would it be good, my other car does gallons to the mile not the other way round. So use many to go to Oxford , France etc. just for a guide my little car gets a full tank twice a year. Coming up to 3 years old , done just under 1500 miles . So looking to trade in. Yes I know !!!! so something like £5,000 more than a petrol to buy , would save £90 per year in fuel costs , dearer insurance ( I have checked) add charging point say £500 not looking worth bothering with

my diesel car does 660miles on a full tank in summer and 660 miles in winter and when it's turned off it's not using fuel