Fuel increase

[Cool Boola]

.Say ya give it a full charge and then leave it for 3 days…How much charge is lost..Askin for the Emmy…..

[silverbullet]

Take an ID4.
It takes 84 kWh to charge at home,at a day/night meter cost of approx €7.
For that 7 euro you get a range of near enough 500 km.
If you bought 4.5 litres of fossil juice with the 7 euro you'd get maybe 60 km.
If you are doing 1000 km a week,the saving is about 90 euro a week.

Is that €7 per day every day, i.e €49 per week?

No that's €7 for 500 km.

Under €14 a week for me so. Cheers.

[Shallowhal]

Dino juice.....the future!!

[C5]

@vandriver, id save that 90 per week because that ev will have an expensive repair when its out of its guarantee. There is no long term tests for evs as sale rep cars or taxis or commercial use. Do ye ever wonder why Toyota hasn't full battery evs, its because they play the long game, they see what works long term like they did with the hybrid, they see hydrogen as the end game like the Miri fuel cell and the hydrogen combustion engine like JCB are introducing in 2029 for all there heavy plant. I've been saying it for a long time stay away from full evs for commercial use. Toyota might be forced to go ev for a few years but they will go away from it unless they can crack the solid state battery problem.

[vandriver]

A new leaf battery is about 7k.
If the battery lasts 5 years ,you're still 15 grand up and essentially have a new car after 5 years.
After 10 years,you're 37k up and just scrap the ev.
You also save 10 years worth of clutches,egr valves,dmf's injectors and all the other shite you have to put up with in a diesel  car

[C5]

I've the same clutch,gearbox,engine,egr valve cleaned twice and reinstalled, dpf cleaned twice, fuel injectors serviced every 100k cleaned and new copper seals. 456,000 kms. I'll stick with diesel.

[vandriver]

If 37k saved on fuel,and thousands more saved on maintenance with a superior driving experience doesn't convince you,then nothing will..(except Freenow fucking you out in a few years

[Belker]

If 37k saved on fuel,and thousands more saved on maintenance with a superior driving experience doesn't convince you,then nothing will..(except Freenow fucking you out in a few years

Is your nua VW Caddy an EV Van D ?

[silverbullet]

I've the same clutch,gearbox,engine,egr valve cleaned twice and reinstalled, dpf cleaned twice, fuel injectors serviced every 100k cleaned and new copper seals. 456,000 kms. I'll stick with diesel.

Not being smart here but, there aren't that many C5's operating as taxis. I'd guess you're the only one we know. There has to be a reason.
In the meantime keep your yoke running to the end.

[vandriver]

If 37k saved on fuel,and thousands more saved on maintenance with a superior driving experience doesn't convince you,then nothing will..(except Freenow fucking you out in a few years

Is your nua VW Caddy an EV Van D ?

Good old dirty diesel.
Ev wheelies are astronomically expensive (the merc one is near 100k)

[Cool Boola]

Imagine investing 100k in the taxi business,,,Botox!!,,,Anything over 10k is a risk!

[Belker]

Are yissers finding the cost of Petrol and Diesel,really hitting the pocket in the last few weeks.Last week I paid 1.36 for Petrol..Now its costing me 1.68….So 100 litres is a extra 52 euro….That’s flunking mad .I’d say you leccy s guys are laughing all the way to the Bank? 

We had a competition about the price of diesel on here last May 2020, Bob Schilling won it, IT WAS 115.5 !!

Averaging 160 down here at the moment !!

To be fair, John M did predict the rise.

[C5]

@silverbullet, there is a few of them around but most people have a sheepish mentality and buy the cars they see most others drive. The rumours of French car unreliability are for the history books. Most electrical issues were just a bad ground that has rust on it, it was mostly with Renault where you would see the indicator on and when you press the brake all the lights at the back would flash. I think they changed the position of ground wires because I haven't seen them do that in years, but I saw a Toyota landcruser a couple of weeks ago with the hazards on all lights flashing. I've had 2 of them 2003/2011 the 1st  one has nearly 800,000 miles still driving it, the taxi one has 300,000 miles.

[Shallowhal]

To be fair, John M did predict the rise.


He did.....three fukin years ago....it wasn't about to go down to be fair.....he said petteril would be €2 per litre by the Christmas of that year.....it wasn't.....he was bound to be close in some future year!!

[silverbullet]

To be fair, John M did predict the rise.


He did.....three fukin years ago....it wasn't about to go down to be fair.....he said petteril would be €2 per litre by the Christmas of that year.....it wasn't.....he was bound to be close in some future year!!

A stopped watch and all that.