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And Y is good for all the kids gubbins?

It’s massive.
I have a few options added, but not many.
For reference that’s a full size lab and a fairly large cage.

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Schrödinger's dog?

It’s got more space than the Range Rover we used to have…

I’m pretty sceptical about the claims this bloke makes. 15kWh is not enough to do 100km range and would be around €3000 ex VAT for just the batteries. Would need massive subsidies to be affordable.

@cookiemonster is there any reason why you can't use Onto as a car hire company? We're finding that we quite often want a car for at least a month over various school holidays.

Yes, they’re basically just a longer term hire company. I think the “lease” thing is just because they get compared to leasing on pricing, and minimum hire term is one month.

I used them for a couple of months over the summer and then a couple of months over Christmas

That said, they’ve recently changed the pricing so both delivery and collection are £100. So £200 on top of the monthly cost (which itself has recently gone up, with a new mileage cap of 750 miles)

Can you collect the car? I can't find any info on where that might be from.

No - delivery only. Think they used to do collections, but stopped with covid and haven’t brought it back

It’s a shame you don’t have an affiliate code! Ordered one today after seeing two in the Waitrose car park 😂

Ha. There did used to be ‘affiliate codes’ in the form of 1,000 miles free supercharging each. They stopped it mid last year.

I’ll be in peel road from 12.30 to around 5 tomorrow if you want to take a look.

I’m thinking about a Model Y for my next company car. We don’t have any EVs on the fleet just a few hybrids. Does anyone have any experience of how companies are repaying employees for changing at home?

You mean expense mileage?

It’s a much lower rate than ICE vehicles for us. Around 8p per mile I think.

Not really the present system is we are in vehicles leased by the company, we have a fuel card and pay for private mileage.
It’s going to continue with leased cars (we actually need a car to do the job).
This is going to have to evolve in some way.

Test drove a Honda E over the weekend and am absolutely smitten with it, what a magnificent thing.

Anyone have an instavolt referral?

I’m deliberately staying away from them. It’s so wrong for my lifestyle but I know it’ll steal my heart.

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are all of the home chargers pretty much the same? anything i need to know - what is nice to have, etc?

Only experience of the one we have but I think they are much of a muchness. Tethered or not is one decision. Ours has the option to add solar feed-in (if we ever get round to / can afford panels) which seemed like a decent bit of future-proofing. Scheduling done via the car, so no need for yet another app. So just a box on the wall that I plug in in the evening when needed and unplug in the morning good to go.
We got ours for free with the car lease, but I won't otherwise recommend then as installation was a shitshow. Car delivered mid Nov. Finally got the charger in March. If 'non-standard' installation (eg very short run from fuse box) you can get stung for added costs. Very high demand now so might be worth checking availbility before you commit.

Sort of depends what car you're getting. If it's a Tesla, I highly recommend a tethered cable as Tesla recommend you keep the car plugged in all the time. Most other manufacturers only really ask you to plug in when charging.

We've got two EO Mini Pro and they've been faultless from a usability standpoint and they're nice and small. Installation was a PITA though as having two meant needing a CT clamp to monitor and manage one of the chargers to avoid blowing the main fuse.

We also went tethered so it's just there ready. Our Zoe doesn't do much mileage so only plug in and top up every couple of weeks.

Churs. I've got the car - an id3. I can still get the grant as a tenant, I think, but my landlord will pay for it.

I have a cable and a granny charger, so I have either option of tethered or not.

Just went with the Tesla one, worked out cheaper than the vast majority of ‘grant’ approved chargers. I sourced all the parts myself, routed the cables, had an electrician wire it.