Beat me to it…… looks like a partly-crumpled can…!
Looking at the Vauxhall offer, it’s a bit muddled.
Looks like they’re included ‘Energy Credit equivalent to 30,000 miles’ in partnership with British Gas and a free home charging box. It doesn’t specifically say you’ve got to have and use the home charger to get the credit though.
They’re also including 6 months free sub to BP Pulse.
Basically - it’s a prime example of just how complicated and confusing all these offers are.
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Confusing is not the word, it’s chaotic.
I read a piece the other day and learnt that there is a differential of around 1433% when buying energy.
The author went on to ask us to consider the uproar if the same applied to diesel.
Imagine the cost of diesel ranging from circa 13p to £1.36 a litre.
Energy for an electric car varies between a electric tariff of 4p from a specialist supplier to 69p from suppliers such as Ionity.
He could have also mentioned that some energy suppliers provide it free of any charge, which is presently the supplier I use.
Confusing, you can say that again🤣
The Ionic 5 is leading the car registrations this month in Norway, I think the third most important EV market for manufacturers, with a total of 280 cars.
Next is the Ford Mustang E with 265 but both have got a long way to go if they are to knock
Tesla’s M3 of its perch for most sales this year of 6277, 29,735 in total.
Of course the all time winner is the Leaf with 69000 registered followed by the VW Golf 47,000, the Tesla M3 then the BMW i3 29,483
Give it a couple of years and I think that the tables will be very different.
I’m excited to see some smaller EV cars emerging over SUVs. In a few years hopefully they’ll be more affordable and I’ll have somewhere to charge it (street parking only for me). A small car to me is much more practical in Bristol (lots of narrow streets with no off street parking).
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Is this an interim solution for those waiting for a suitable EV 
In America it’s called a "Home Brew” 
I’ve just set the time to 6min to skip the guff at the start.
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Well the good news is that the wheels are green 
It seems that the car makers may need to step up their sales of petrol and diesel engined cars in order to fund the development of EVs.
"Registrations of plug-in cars are flying. Great news for an industry that must transition rapidly to new technology, right? Maybe. Maybe not.”
I doubt that they will be able to sell diesel cars and many of the petrol will need to be plug-ins which will put another strain on the EV charging infrastructure.
The cynic in me would say serves them right for stalling on investment in the manufacture processes for EVs haha.
Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess said; “Maintaining high cash flows from our ICE business to finance the transition will be paramount.” It’s a brave admission, given many will see it as standing in the way of the environmental benefits (VW itself estimates it accounts for about 2% of the world’s CO2 output), but it is worth highlighting that it is the pace of progress that is being disputed, not whether change is needed.
Also, I love the footnote admission on that article that the author had underestimated classic car emissions by a very significant amount;
Admission time: a few weeks back, I stated that the average classic car owner emits as much CO2 in a year as is generated from charging a mobile phone for six months. How far out my maths was depends on who I talk to – but after much discussion, a fairer claim would be that it is as much as manufacturing and charging 40 smartphones for 12 months.
This new claim flips the argument on its head as it suggests that owning a classic car emits as much emissions as manufacturing and using a new smartphone every 9 days…
Let’s hope that JLR, after betting the farm on diesels, manage to pull something out of the fire.
200,000 jobs depend on them staying in business.
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I understand your difficulty about parking in Bristol.
I used to park in the streets around Hotwell, rarely at the same place, and managed to keep my car charged at the Hilton which at that time the Hotel would let me park for free but whether that is the same today I don’t know.
Here’s an interesting comparison with Land Rovers. A new (Diesel) Land Rover Defender vs an older Defender that has had a Tesla motor put into it.
Price wise - the Tesla-Defender conversion is way WAY more expensive - £150k in total compared to the new Diesel which is £50k. The Tesla engine they put in there was from a Model S which meant just getting that cost £90k.
Carwow is a fairly neutral car review site - they’re not a specific EV only channel.
The ‘TLDR’ version of the video - the New Defender is nice, but the engine isn’t as powerful as the Tesla-Defender and the Tesla Defender was generally very comparable off roading with the New Defender. If/when JLR do start to produce EV Land Rovers though, I wouldn’t expect it to have the same performance as the Tesla-Defender though.
I would be surprised if Land Rover under its present management ever produce an EV version. Without an EV platform the present Defender would be far too heavy.
They will need then to compete with this from Mercedes which will be built on the EQ platform.
The owner of Land Rover though do already have another car that does have an EV platform - the Jaguar i-Pace.
That actually got some fairly good reviews when that first came out (2? 3 years ago?). If they haven’t done it yet, that’s due a mid-cycle refresh soon and even if that platform isn’t completely suitable for a Land Rover, it’s at least given them some good experience on creating it and probably telemetrics on battery management.
Thierry Bollore, JLR’s CEO, has said that JLR needs a dedicated platform for all new EV models.
The iPace utilised a cut down XJ platform and can’t be used for future models which he envisages will be very upmarket cars that will compete with Rolls Royce and Bentley.
You are right that the iPace will provide data for future models but so will this one, perhaps more valuable.
The eventual owners Tata also have a few EVs including the Tata Nexon which is an SUV. Separate companies but I’d expect them to share technology in the area of EVs.
I am sure they do but keep in mind that Tata Motors is essentially JLR, without JLR Tata Motors would be gone.
Additionally the research for Tata’s automotive products is based in Coventry at the University of Warwick’s Warwick Manufacturing Group, opened by HRH The Prince of Wales 10 years ago and they have been largely funded by the U.K. government.
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JLR accounts for a little less than half their revenue. They also sell a lot of cars in India and own Daewoo
