lol first customer of the day today I turn up and he’s waiting to be picked up for work , got talking to him and his car was on charge last night starts charging at 1am he’s on some cheap tariff we had a thunder storm in the night and the trip blew , he comes out this morning and the cars not charged , something else to consider , admittedly it’s not going to happen all the time but very inconvenient when it does happen.
Let me check. He'd flattened his battery so low he couldn't get his car to work on what was left in it. (the EV owners I know charge as a matter of course every evening so unless they live 50+ miles from work they could do two trips on one charge)
And on the VERY night he'd done that weird thing a lightning strike blew his house electrics. Something that, in twenty-five years at my address has never happened.
And every Amazon vehicle you ever see is diesel. And every DPD driver in the area is diesel. And you know loads of electric lorry drivers who say they can't abide them.
Tell you what, if I was you I wouldn't be rushing out to buy an EV. Seriously mate, I know you're wedded to having one but please, drop the idea.
Vin
No idea what the state of charge was before he put it on but his work is 35 miles away so combined total of around 70 miles .
The thunder storm blew the trip I assume due to a power surge It did not blow the house electrical system up , re read what I put blew the trip .
Just wind your neck in Ime just relating an experience of what happened if you can’t handle that best not comment please block me so you don’t see my posts .
And yes all amazon vans here are diesel every single one of them , Dpd have a couple of ev but they are based locally not at the main depot as they don’t have the range to do the days trips fact they use a diesel lorry to deliver to the ev vans in an industrial estate . I know several HGV drivers that are trialing the diesel/battery trucks and they are useless there words not mine they also have a reduced payload due to battery weight . As I have said ime not against ev s but at this point in time the range and the batteries are not up to the job .
You can't shut up about how you are against EV. You even chime in on the Good News thread.
You take a lightening strike as a reason not to have one.
Like I've said before - Amazon have loads of EV delivering near me.
Ime not against them but the range and batteries aren’t up to the job end of .
You also can’t read I said a thunder storm probably causing a power surge blew the trip. And I said it’s unusual but it can and does happen the guy came out and couldn’t use the car what’s the problem with that
?didn’t say I wouldn’t have one for that reason but it’s something that can happen.
Bully for you they don’t have them down here as they can’t do a days delivery’s as the range isn’t enough , don’t know ware you are but doubt your delivery drivers do the mileage ones down here do . Guess they are based in Bristol and you aren’t far away from there so yes they can make it work . Just because it works in your area doesn’t mean it will in a rural area .
I never said they did. Why do you declare EV bad and no good just because it's no good for you?
If not a lightning strike how else will a thunderstorm trip electricity?
A thunder storm can cause a power surge at the sub station, it doesn’t have to be a lightning strike that blows the trip if the power goes off when it comes back on it can cause a power spike causing trips to blow or it can blow all the wiring and electric boxes out of the walls , power surges are quite common thunderstorms aren’t the only cause and if you have sensitive trips it will trip them , setting off alarms etc . We regular out to AFA calls that are caused by power cuts then a power surge when the electric comes back on .
Evs aren’t any good for my work or for a car due to lack of range but would work for some I fully accept that . When away from home charging points are also an issue there aren’t enough of them as an example my local Tesco has 1,000 plus car parking spaces but only 4 places for ev charging , most supermarkets are the same and then you pay through the nose to charge , my daughter recently bought a new car from a Honda
dealer in Glasgow we filled it up with diesel and drove straight home over 500 miles you couldn’t do that with ev . The sales guy openly said it’s cheaper to run a petrol or diesel car than the latest ev if you are going to use public charging points . The government will be increasing the tariffs for all car charging points even at home they have already said that , they will still want the same revenue that they get from petrol and diesel sales , so why would you buy a vehicle with a poor range and lay the same as a ice engine vehicle, don’t get me started about reduced range with ev when it’s low temperatures, we are still a long way off developing suitable batteries for this application.
