Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 27, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2023 On 24/12/2023 at 09:20, Zico said: Other halfs boss Got his ev through the company then ended up buying it outright Several years old now Battery has gone 14k for a new one Took this up with the garage/manufacturer Basically got told it was his own fault for buying as no one buys EVs out right, they should lease them and hand them back after 3 or 4 years Dunno what he has, but my van's battery was guaranteed to have at least 70% of its initial capacity for 7 years. New batteries are coming down in price, especially with new technologies now meaning that smaller units will contain as much power as their lighter counterparts. Also allows for far more recharging cycles. I read an article recently that explained that a tipping point had been reached with battery prices, that meant evs were cheaper. It's wrong to look at the cost as a stand alone feature, as the maintenance costs are lower. No gear box, engine etc to wear out neither- something which some drivers will use as an indication of when to change a vehicle. With an ev you don't have to change the whole thing, just swap the battery. With the new types coming in soon, they will be giving much larger ranges and a longer life too. A no brainer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowack Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 Electric car battery swap: NIO network explained | DrivingElectric As its a battery I don`t know why more manufacturers are looking to standardise them and just replace the battery every time like you do with most other devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted December 27, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2023 13 minutes ago, Nowack said: Electric car battery swap: NIO network explained | DrivingElectric As its a battery I don`t know why more manufacturers are looking to standardise them and just replace the battery every time like you do with most other devices. Absolutely. Way back, in the infancy, I genuinely thought that this would be the way the industry would go. Just pull up to a garage, and swap over to a charged one. Still have home charging obviously, but a quicker alternative when on the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter only1swanny Posted March 14 Site Supporter Share Posted March 14 Renewal time.. Good grief, Policy gone up to 2400 a year!! Rang them and after 2.5 hours on hold (kept getting cut off), they have it down to 1700 for both cars. Can change to Esure and it will come down to 1150 for both cars, but that includes a huge payment upfront.. Still 50 a month cheaper. Absolute farce atm! They even had the cheek to say "If you can get a cheaper quote, ring us and we'll try to beat it". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted March 14 Moderators Share Posted March 14 Esure put mine up £100 Dabbled with the options but it wasn't coming down I'd have just let it renew but next time I logged in had a message saying they couldn't actually renew it anyway so to look elsewhere, which has never happened before so I did got £150 off with some random called 1st central so went with them on the day esure ran out I got an email thanking me for auto renewing sorted it out no problem like, just saying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Winchester White Posted March 14 Site Supporter Share Posted March 14 Lad is 18 and passed his test last week. Got a new Kia Picanto on PCP for him arriving in 3 to 4 weeks, 2k to insure with both me and his mum as named drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter only1swanny Posted March 14 Site Supporter Share Posted March 14 annoying thing, I've got 20 years without a claim, hastings have capped it at 9 years ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Winchester White Posted March 14 Site Supporter Share Posted March 14 2 minutes ago, only1swanny said: annoying thing, I've got 20 years without a claim, hastings have capped it at 9 years ! Yeah I think that's the max pal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Egg Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 My old man was telling me today that his insurance had more than doubled to £1200. He had a look on Go Compare & their cheapest was nearly 2k! I was hoping it was because he's well into his 80s but looks like it's massive increases for all of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Winchester White Posted March 14 Site Supporter Share Posted March 14 27 minutes ago, Duck Egg said: My old man was telling me today that his insurance had more than doubled to £1200. He had a look on Go Compare & their cheapest was nearly 2k! I was hoping it was because he's well into his 80s but looks like it's massive increases for all of us. Old drivers have massively increased recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter only1swanny Posted March 14 Site Supporter Share Posted March 14 Got it down to 800 now through Compare the market.. That'll do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted March 14 Site Supporter Share Posted March 14 1 hour ago, Winchester White said: Lad is 18 and passed his test last week. Got a new Kia Picanto on PCP for him arriving in 3 to 4 weeks, 2k to insure with both me and his mum as named drivers. That's very good relatively speaking. Lad has been driving a few months now, and recently swapped to a slightly newer i30. Bigger engine etc but got over 2k back. Was over 5k, now around 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little whitt Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 FUCK ME just got a Email last year £467 This year £ 779 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 13 minutes ago, little whitt said: FUCK ME just got a Email last year £467 This year £ 779 Just shop around, actually managed to get mine down after being quoted an eye-watering amount from my old company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 3 hours ago, little whitt said: FUCK ME just got a Email last year £467 This year £ 779 Do you still have those wooden blocks on the pedals so you can reach them? Or have you gone all upmarket now with these... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little whitt Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 1 hour ago, Traf said: Do you still have those wooden blocks on the pedals so you can reach them? Or have you gone all upmarket now with these... It was a Game Changer That for me Pal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter only1swanny Posted March 26 Site Supporter Share Posted March 26 Compare the market, Geoffrey insurance or esure, both came up cheapest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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