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Us.The other thing is where is all money lost on fuel tax going to come from?
I'm waiting for hydrogen to break throughI wouldn't even consider purchasing one due to the mileage. Is that figure real world driving also?
Once EV's are the norm the preferential treatment they get now will be removed and they will get taxedThe other thing is where is all money lost on fuel tax going to come from?
You know that Tesla is mulling over the idea of setting up a factory in Derry. In the old Ballykelly Army BarracksA Tesla passed me on the motorway yesterday - not exactly a typical sight in NI.
It occured to me that EVs are probably well suited to this country as there's nowhere you could go that doesn't fall within the vehicle's range - at least not without leaving the country or driving into the sea.
I'm waiting for hydrogen to break through
You know that Tesla is mulling over the idea of setting up a factory in Derry. In the old Ballykelly Army Barracks
They were originally going to set up in Germany, but the site is too small and they wanted to clear some forest but the Green Party over there won't allow them.
They were also looking to build in Bristol but they are uneasy about Brexit so the idea of Derry, being half in and half out of the EU is appealing
It cost about 4p per mile charged at home against 11p for 50mpg car, but as tax is 2/3 on diesel and 5% on electric if you adjusted for that price would be about the same,What I have never seen published (not that I have looked) is the mile/Kw cost compared against mpg of course it depends if you have solar power to call upon or you take your power straight off the grid, my buddy with the new electric Kia put 4Kw of panels on his house at the beginning of the high tariff being available, he gets somewhere in the region of £1200.00/pa back from the national grid, but runs his car and pool heating from the provider, I should have listened to him when he first mooted putting them up.
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I get that with Currys Indian type not high street.
This is the big question my customer with a Tesla gets free charging at service stations but he was one of there early customers and new customers do not get the same deal, but think they get so many KW per year,normally I think it might be in the range of 6 to 8p per mile. I looked at the idea of a electric van but would not work for me as I can do 2 to 3 hundred KM a day if I have a bad day and a problem other end of where I am working, also do not have the sort of turnover to cover cost.Interesting Ian, at what sort of range are we talking about, electric car milage seems to be very optimistic and not real world, but diesel cars have been around long enough that we all know our true milage with our individual driving styles, I wonder what the Kw charge will eventually be at the road side and not at home?
I remember riding in my dad's Prefect.......3 gears and, for then, it went like a bomb. He'd never have swapped that for a milk float.I had the thrill of riding in this little beauty, a 1959 Ford Prefect that was converted to battery power by my neighbourhood auto electrician, Mr Doring. I recall (probably faultily) that it had 25 HP and a range of 40 miles. It was Sydney in ... err ... well a long time ago.
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One solution to the whole charging issue was to have replaceable battery packs of a standard configuration. So drive in to "petrol station" and robot replaces the battery from underside or similar. 5 min to, in effect, recharge and off you go.
Load throttling is the way. Chargers are now using ct clamps to lower the charging load if the house is using more. You can it a charger to a house with 60amp fuse with risking the dno fuse blowing. The wonders of ct clamps.The biggest infrastructure problem is the DNO cables in the ground. Without a major network upgrade I don't see how it can stand a massive increase in load that EV charging will present. Most of the network was installed between the 1930's and 50's and is mainly 16mm² and 25mm² 4c cable, it's interesting looking at the DNO network plans to see how many properties are served off one 16mm² cable along a street and diversity if you can call it that is certainly pushed beyond limits and EV charging will probably be the straw that breaks it's back
Would be great to see. Couldn't go any worse than Delorean did anyway.You know that Tesla is mulling over the idea of setting up a factory in Derry. In the old Ballykelly Army Barracks
They were originally going to set up in Germany, but the site is too small and they wanted to clear some forest but the Green Party over there won't allow them.
They were also looking to build in Bristol but they are uneasy about Brexit so the idea of Derry, being half in and half out of the EU is appealing
Would be great to see. Couldn't go any worse than Delorean did anyway.
The problem is all those chargers have to be linked, not just CT on the house supply, but back to the local substation to monitor the overall loads on the cable(s). Remember the typical past assumption for house load diversity when sizing the substation and cables is around 3-5kW, not 14kW or more.Load throttling is the way. Chargers are now using ct clamps to lower the charging load if the house is using more. You can it a charger to a house with 60amp fuse with risking the dno fuse blowing. The wonders of ct clamps.
There is capacity in the network if used correctly.
That made me laugh a lot.Having a 2nd house in the South of France is hardly typical ffs.
Load limiters are used a bit in France as a house might have anything from a 15A supply or a 3 phase 15A per phase up to 60A mono phase or 45A 3 phase they work well but I think we need a clever system using smart meters and wifi so,chargers can be turned on and off to balance out load on the system, by electric company's I think the most that can be done is maybe 20% all electric and 30 to 40% plugin hybrids still think changing heating to electric is a easier than changing your car to run on electric, but they is no money savings there and no green brownie pointsLoad throttling is the way. Chargers are now using ct clamps to lower the charging load if the house is using more. You can it a charger to a house with 60amp fuse with risking the dno fuse blowing. The wonders of ct clamps.
There is capacity in the network if used correctly.
Load throttling is the way. Chargers are now using ct clamps to lower the charging load if the house is using more. You can it a charger to a house with 60amp fuse with risking the dno fuse blowing. The wonders of ct clamps.
There is capacity in the network if used correctly.
The problem is all those chargers have to be linked, not just CT on the house supply, but back to the local substation to monitor the overall loads on the cable(s). Remember the typical past assumption for house load diversity when sizing the substation and cables is around 3-5kW, not 14kW or more.
So in that sense technology can reduce the risk dramatically, but people have to get used to the idea that their "1 hour" charger might take several hours or even overnight when lots of others are trying to use the supply for EV charge, cooking, showers, etc.
It is not clear what charging capacity has to be available but if all the points are used at the same time there will be little or no diversity to be applied to the new supply needed and I think it will be an interesting conversation with the DNO as to whether the local network could support this
I'm well aware of the procedure you ask for a supply the DNO responds with the options and the telephone numbers then you have to find the compromise that both parties are happy withIt works the same as P.V.
The DNO own the Network, if it can't support what the customer is asking for then the customer can't have it, unless they pay towards the upgrade of the network
So if the network won't support the potential load of E.V then that means no car park unless they pay possibly 10's of thousands or even hundreds of thousands towards the upgrades.
Interesting, but too small and I still can't get past the price, well out of my reach. I was surprised at the weight too, though that should have been obvious as it's filled with the batteries. I get the feeling I'd be using the engine more than the batteries alone to save the hassle of finding somewhere to charge it and then waiting for it to charge.This looks like a good option and think it is the sort of thing we will all be driving in 10 years
Let us know what you think, I drive a 19 reg 1.6L vivaro and it's junk. One of the poorest designed vehicles I have ever operated. They have got so much wrong it's unbelievable, I get the feeling the designers have never driven a vehicle before. The 1.6L engine is a bit small, it struggles with hills. Uphill means dropping down 2 gears, and downhill there is no engine braking like you would get in a normal vehicle so you need to use the brakes a lot. When driving you need to change gears far more often than my car or the previous 3 vans I've had. At 50MPH it demands you drive in 6th gear. And the less said about the hill start 'assist' feature the better.However i have decied to go with a bran new vivaro L2 120ps diesel
I do like the look of it and think it will last a long time but like you a bit small and expensive, I can not understand why has it got a max range on the engine option or is that just that you will need to refill with petrol. But saying that I think maybe not this but the same sort of hybrid is what we will all end up driving after 2040 when straight petrol and diesel are band, Top gear some years ago had a bit about electric cars where they built something up with a diesel generator in the back (as a bit of a joke) but looks same idea is being used on thisInteresting, but too small and I still can't get past the price, well out of my reach. I was surprised at the weight too, though that should have been obvious as it's filled with the batteries. I get the feeling I'd be using the engine more than the batteries alone to save the hassle of finding somewhere to charge it and then waiting for it to charge.
I'm still wavering towards an electric one... but I think that's more driven by personal motives and the marketing angle of installing EV charging whilst using an EV.Glad to see my op has generated alot of responses in the subject. However i have decied to go with a bran new vivaro L2 120ps diesel as i feel more comfortable than taking a risk in the unknown market. Hope next time i buy new in 4/5yrs i will have enough confidence to buy electric.
In the future we will not be able to drive anywhere the whole world will be covered in wind farms and solar panels.It's inevitable that we'll all have to drive Electric Vehicles in the near future - at least until a better option becomes viable. The rights and wrongs are as important as the fact that politicians are moving in this direction and they make the laws.
I see an untapped niche in the market for double insulated jerry cans.
Unfortunately I think the majority of households do not have the option of home charging as they have no driveway. If you live in a block of flats, or even on a typical street of terraced houses where you have no reserved parking space (and every fsker seems to have 2 cars per household so finding a space is a lottery), you are out of options.But to address the specific query here... you need to remember that at present, only 5% ish of EV charging will happen at public chargers... the rest is done at home where different connectors are not an issue.
In the future we will not be able to drive anywhere the whole world will be covered in wind farms and solar panels.
Exactly what I said... EVs work well for many many many people... but NOT all. But that's only the current position... as EVs become more mainstream we'll slowly see many of the obstacles to ownership being overcome... it's all very normal for any new technology.EVs may be suitable for many, but certainly not for me.
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