Cheaper holidays EV charging

Posted on 31/07/2023 08:52 by JohnM20

Whilst fires actually started by the battery in an EV are recognised by the fire service and they have a strategy for dealing with them, what are the hazards if the car is involved in a fire started externally, eg parked in a garage at home and the house catches fire or vandalism / riots and the car is deliberately set fire to? Are batteries fireproofed against this type of fire?

I know these examples are very rare and I could have sighted other scenarios but I'm sure you get my drift. In these sorts of instances, would the fire service know that a car involved was an EV or will they be treating every fire involving a car as though it was?

Posted on 31/07/2023 09:34 by GTrimmer

"In these sorts of instances, would the fire service know that a car involved was an EV or will they be treating every fire involving a car as though it was?"

Those pretty green stripes on the number plates will tell them all they need to know

 

Posted on 09/07/2023 11:18 by GTrimmer

Interesting that this topic is posted under 'making touring holidays cheaper' .

I've long held the view that the vast majority of EV users have followed that route simply to save money,,and for them 'saving the planet is of minor importance if of any relevance at all.

The sooner they pay a sensible share of car tax the better.

Posted on 31/07/2023 16:27 by MikeyA

It seems to me that if you want to save money then you don't buy an EV in the first place. 

I received an email from Volvo the other day and the difference in cost of leasing (PCP) a XC40 mild hybrid versus a XC40 EV is astonishing.

Over the 48 month duration period , the cost for MH is £23,469 whilst the EV is £38,319.

If you the decide to pay the balloon payment to own the car outright, the final totals are:

MH  £41,165 compared to £63,474 for the EV.

 

Posted on 30/07/2023 23:14 by ChocolateTrees

And how many of those fires have actually been attributed to the EVs on the ships in question? Definitely not the second so far. It’s still on fire and no root cause has been identified as far as I am aware? Was the first attribute to an EV fire, or was it another unexplained fire on a ship in which some EVs happened to be involved?

Posted on 31/07/2023 21:35 by nelliethehooker

A as far as the first one is concerned it will probably never certain of the cause as the vessel is on the sea floor, and I very much doubt accessible to those who job it is to ascertain the  cause of the fire, but the intensity of the foreclosure to it having been caused by an EV battery. The fire on the  F H was very similar hence the thoughts are that it was caused in the same way. Should they manage to get int the vessel the investigators may then be able to say for certain now and why it started. Until then it is only speculation.

Posted on 01/10/2023 11:16 by Oscarmax

Early this year we visited Chirk CMC the EV chargers are 22 kWh, we have just returned from Blacknowl in the New Forest their EV charger are only 7 kWh, both sites you can only charge in £6.08 10kWh block charge.

Charging up from the caravan is a real restrictive and a pain, we tow with a PHEV, we no longer use any commercial EV charger, financially it is cheaper to run the PHEV as a petrol hybrid whether towing or running solo, 50 pence a kWh is our break even point.