[En70]

After 2 months of owning the 45e I need to make an essential customer visit, downside is it's 450 miles away

The Uk government lets my employer pay 18p per mile, the last fill up was £5.50 per gallon (hate the taxes love the NHS)

I make it that means I need 30.7mpg to break even, full battery , here we go

[BryanC84]

Safe trip!

[Wynnema]

Thanks for sharing, interested to see how you get on

[Bimmelim]

Originally Posted by Wynnema

Thanks for sharing, interested to see how you get on

Originally Posted by Wynnema

Thanks for sharing, interested to see how you get on

Arrived Aberdeen?

[En70]

Managed 40.9 mpg here 51 battery miles and empty

Found charge point so topping up for £5.50

[plagm]

That seems good, So adjusted MPG minus the full charge at home and the charge point ?

£5.50 (if thats enough charge to do 30 ish electric miles is that not the same cost as petrol?) i suppose its the BIK tax were you actually win over a diesel/petrol im guessing but they would probably do low 40's on a similar run & 35 mpg ish respectivly.

i cant work out what the benefit actually is.

so i suppose fuel/energy cost per mile is the only measure not MPG

[En70]

Originally Posted by plagm

That seems good, So adjusted MPG minus the full charge at home and the charge point ?

£5.50 (if thats enough charge to do 30 ish electric miles is that not the same cost as petrol?) i suppose its the BIK tax were you actually win over a diesel/petrol im guessing but they would probably do low 40's on a similar run & 35 mpg ish respectivly.

i cant work out what the benefit actually is.

so i suppose fuel/energy cost per mile is the only measure not MPG

Originally Posted by plagm

That seems good, So adjusted MPG minus the full charge at home and the charge point ?

£5.50 (if thats enough charge to do 30 ish electric miles is that not the same cost as petrol?) i suppose its the BIK tax were you actually win over a diesel/petrol im guessing but they would probably do low 40's on a similar run & 35 mpg ish respectivly.

i cant work out what the benefit actually is.

so i suppose fuel/energy cost per mile is the only measure not MPG

Yep BIK is where you win, the 45e is approx £400 a month a 40d or a 40i £740, so if it wasn't a company car and you didn't go into big emission zone cities, diesel all the way

I managed 51 miles out of a fully charged battery so plugging in is marginally better financially and depending on the source of the electric , better environmentally

[pavloPL]

Originally Posted by En70

Managed 40.9 mpg here 51 battery miles and empty

Found charge point so topping up for £5.50

Pretty good taking into account most was on a petrol alone, my 40i would max 30 mpg

[Wynnema]

Originally Posted by En70

Yep BIK is where you win, the 45e is approx £400 a month a 40d or a 40i £740, so if it wasn't a company car and you didn't go into big emission zone cities, diesel all the way

I managed 51 miles out of a fully charged battery so plugging in is marginally better financially and depending on the source of the electric , better environmentally

Where do you get £400 BIK? It’s £160 a month for 40% taxpayer vs £1100 for a 40d

6% vs 37%

Or have I misunderstood?