Cost of filling up ?

[Frazz82]

Pulled into Tesco's with the fuel pump screaming an topped it up with momentum.................£134 to brim it.

Any excuse to put prices up and I also wonder if they bump the price to force people to go electric.

[steve2003rs6]

Vpower still 164.9 on the east coast. Just received a text from shell giving me 5p off per litre on my next visit.
So 82 litres = £135 or £131 with the 5p off

[srichards]

Electric car sales are already rocketing. November was 19% of new car sales. Out sold diesel and diesel hybrid. That will be mostly for new cars ordered before the fuel price hiatus as well.

[steve2003rs6]

Must admit electric cars do make a lot of sense for day to day local driving these days.
I just cannot justify two cars in our household or I would definitely consider one.
So I would have to sell the 6 to buy electric.
And that just ain’t happening.

[Shoppinit]

I'll probably get something electric for my wife when her current car expires. I get a lot of satisfaction from driving around on battery power in the Passat and almost all my local journeys can be covered by the range. When you think about it, it's insane that we're still using internal combustion technology, with all its inherent complexity, when we have such a simple alternative available (I'm talking about the power transmission rather than the energy storage).

No original thought here, but long journeys are an issue for me. I either do very short trips or very long ones, sometimes 1000+ miles return and I don't want to deal with range anxiety. The hybrid is perfect for me. My associate has a Tesla 3 perf and he will happily drive to Berlin and back in it. I might consider it in a Tesla, because of the supercharger network, but not in anything else. And even that might change now that Tesla will be opening the network to other brands.

I think a trick has been missed with EVs and charging. Renault had a good idea - service stations to swap out the battery in less than 2 mins, just like filling up. And no worries about battery life. Looks like thing aren't going to evolve in that direction, though.

[srichards]

Battery swapping is a complicated solution compared to just filling the one you've got. It's never two minutes and it means having to have enough spare battery packs that every single car gets a fully charged battery without waiting. Wasteful way of doing it compared to just charging the one in the car while you're doing something else anyway. It might work for F1 if they go electric. Who are going to be all these people that are going to be changing these battery packs? They are generally a couple of hundred KG in weight too. You'd have to split them up so how long will they last if they're unplugged and replugged several times a week? If they're thermally managed then where does all the gubbins for that go. You'd have to check for leaks if they were reconnected as coolant leaking into a battery won't be a good thing. If you've seen the mess a ham fisted idiot can do to a compact flash card...imagine that on something costing a lot more...

I do random trips to random locations and apart from a few areas it's been fine. Wales is still a disaster zone though.

Once the charging network is reliable then I don't think range anxiety is such a thing. The teslas just sort out the itinerary and will alter it if things change too. It's a doddle.

[Shoppinit]

Lol. I love the image of loads* of French blokes in overalls manhandling massive D cells into your boot.

What I saw was more like this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_contin ... e=emb_logo

*1 working and 3 watching, natch.

[mikep99]

Momentum down 1p to 146.9/litre today compared to a couple of weeks ago.
it's going in the right direction!

[steve2003rs6]

Vpower still 164.9 on the east coast.
However I had to use momentum recently.
Never encountered any lack of performance with it.
So would definitely use it again without any hesitation.

[bilko1]

Momentum £151.9 on the sunny south coast.

[Weiß-sechs]

I called in at an Esso couple of days back after reading some PistonHeads advertising blurb on Synergy Supreme 99+. Thought I'd give it a go (in the S6, not RS).....£1.63.9 per litre . If it wasn't for the fact I was running on fumes I'd just have drove straight off the forecourt. Stick your Esso where the sun don't shine

[Foxmeister]

I recently changed to Tesco Momentum also after hearing good things, and found it for £1.49 which is better than Shells £1.64 i have been using

[HPsauce]

Momentum is 156.9 near me, 10p more than regular. More than worth the extra 7%.

Or if I was crazy I could go to Beaconsfield Services and pay 172.9 for Shell 99!

[steve2003rs6]

Filled up with vpower this morning. Still at 164.9 but I did get 5p off that per litre.
Without that I would have filled up at Tesco.

[steve2003rs6]

Vpower today. Still at 164.9 per litre.