The EV fact thread

[markjay]

....there were something like 40,000 electric milk floats on the roads for decades, and I never heard of any of them catching fire

Of course you didn't. Either because it doesn't happen very often... or because when it does, the tabloids don't considered it newsworthy, because its not an EV

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

63 to 88% residuals at what, ten years old? Contrast that with the residuals of the EVs coming off lease re price-follows-demand and there's something being said there.

What makes you think these quadricycles are comparable to mass produced cars that are sold with an enormous tax break for the first owner?

Ford Granadas, Mondeos and Escorts always dropped in value like a stone but did that mean that ex-Company cars were a bad second user choice?

But yes, if you make something interesting, like this £90k EV made at Hethel on Lotus underpinnings and then stop before making too many, the residuals can be interesting.

Some Tesla Roadsters sold for more than £200k during the Covid shenanigans

 

[markjay]

Interestingly, I noticed that is some parts of London, they now have a charger in front of each property, with the charger being a thin bollard that retracts back into the pavement after use.

Seems like a great solution for narrow pavements.

 

[Bellow]

What makes you think these quadricycles are comparable to mass produced cars that are sold with an enormous tax break for the first owner?

Nothing. There's a massive difference. The Twizy is actually in demand as a sensible inner city transportation proposition.

 

[TC350]

EV fires are almost exclusively a Li Ion thing - there were something like 40,000 electric milk floats on the roads for decades, and I never heard of any of them catching fire

Google milk float fire and there's lots of them. Here's what came out top when I tried it:

Firefighters called out to a fire milk float fire in Chester

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a milk float on fire in Chester.

www.chesterstandard.co.uk

 

[SmartAmg]

Google milk float fire and there's lots of them. Here's what came out top when I tried it:

Firefighters called out to a fire milk float fire in Chester

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a milk float on fire in Chester.

www.chesterstandard.co.uk

Nah, they're Milking that!

 

[BTB 500]

Google milk float fire and there's lots of them. Here's what came out top when I tried it:

Firefighters called out to a fire milk float fire in Chester

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a milk float on fire in Chester.

www.chesterstandard.co.uk

Nothing to suggest that was an electric milk float though? Quite a few ICE ones around.

I was specifically talking about the old fashioned lead/acid battery ones used by urban dairies from the '30s(?) onwards.

 

[BTB 500]

Of course you didn't. Either because it doesn't happen very often... or because when it does, the tabloids don't considered it newsworthy, because its not an EV

An electric milk float isn't an EV??

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Nothing. There's a massive difference. The Twizy is actually in demand as a sensible inner city transportation proposition.

The Twizy is "in demand?"

They only sold 400 of them in the UK, and the last hundred had to be virtually given away with large discounts.

And if Twizy's were "in demand" why are most of them only doing less than 500 miles a year?

Want a sensible inner city transportation proposition? Go for something that was sold completely tax free, and can sit two plus two comfortably, with windows, heating, SatNav and cameras. A car that is compact in the City but can also take you to Cornwall without blinking.

Like a four year old MINI or BMW I3 for £14k. They're making 50,000 electric MINI's a year at Cowley, which is quite a bit more than Renault ever sold.