I wish someone could teach me to swim properly. I’m middling running and biking and pretty fit. I was taught to swim in my thirties. Have had numerous lessons, watched every video on youtube. I can do 100m in 2 minutes or 2k in 40 minutes, have tried changing everything in my stroke but I’m guessing while my head says things are changing my body is always doing the same thing as no matter what I do the speed never changes.

Milton tablets are good for getting rid of smells. Cheap too.

Wait. Hyundai still have shit spares even though I’ve not owned one for 24 years.

The compressor went in our Kia (Hyundai AFAIK) in August. Expecting to get it fixed mid October. I’d say pretty shit, yes.

Speed makes a massive difference in the eNiro too. At 60 GPS I can get 240-250 mikes range. At 70 GPS it’s more like 180-190.

The speedo reads roughly 10% over speed (vs GPS and odometer) at all speeds.

I did have one trip last year from Aberdeen – Glasgow (around 150 miles) during the winter. There was heavy rain the whole way. I set off with 100% charge at 70mph, expecting to make it home easily. Around 40 miles out from Glasgow I had to slow down as I was not willing to risk it. Got home finally with 10% charge showing.

22%, I can only dream.. 6% here, was 5% until a couple of years ago.

I’ve had 100+ watchers and one (winning) bid not so long ago.

As suggested above, mesh tech t-shirt. I’ve collected loads over the years from ruining. Wash at 30C 400rpm spin, last forever.

Ditto the above, our Panasonic will have averaged something like 3 loaves a week for 15 years. It’s still works though the inside housing is rotted away in places. I’ve been waiting for it to die before replacing but I’m still waiting.

It’s a slow speed charger (2kWh I think) that plugs into a standard 13A socket. Tended to come with all EVs originally but think now it’s probably an option on a lot of them.

An EVSE is 7kWh so charges faster but needs a professional install.

EDIT – “I reckon a EVSE would cost us on the order of £1500 to install”.. prob more likely £900-1000..

Nope, not a simple install here so pretty sure it’ll be more than that here. My point stands at £900 – £1000 though, totally not worth it for us on expense vs convenience (and massively overpriced for what you’re getting).

Prompted by this thread I’ve tried to work out our spend.

We bought a 3 year old eNiro July last year. We’ve put around 12k miles on it this year. Trip computer shows 4.1 miles/kWh over this time. Charging efficiency is around 80%.

The vast majority of the 12k is local driving, realistically probably averaging 20 – 30 miles per hour. We’ve done maybe 10 longer trips over the year 150 – 250 miles each way. Some of these we’ve had free charging at the far end. I rarely drive over 60 mph.

By my reckoning we’ve put around 750 kWhs into the car on rapids – £400. 2900 kWhs at home – £300. I reckon we would have spent around £2200 in petrol vs £700 electricity.

We had the battery go flat when we went on holiday last year, had to call out the AA to start the car. Not sure if it’s fair to count this as a cost to the EV but likely if it had been our old car we could have push started it (or would have gotten someone to jump start it). This cost us £200.

New battery and battery booster to prevent this happening again £125, again not sure it’s fair to count this as a cost against an EV but likely in the old car we’d have replaced the battery only.

Out insurance when up from 260 for an old Volvo s40 to £520 on the eNiro and up again £540 on year 2. I’m sure the s40 price would have gone up but equally sure there’s a big differential here.

We got free servicing year 1, bought a Kia service plan for year 4/5 – cost £135/year. MOT was £50. This is significantly less than we were spending to keep our old Volvo on the road though the Volvo was a 53 plate, I don’t expect the eNiro will get to 19 years old.

On the tyre side given discussion above, when we bought the car the fronts needed replaced, we put Goodyear 4Seasons on the front. These are about half worn now so I’d expect to get around 25k mile out of them. The rears hardly wear at all, when we bought the car they had around 4.5mm tread on them, now at 3.5mm.

Having guestimated the charging costs above, it obvious after writing it down but it was pretty shocking how a handful of rapid charges has cost significantly more that the majority of our home charging.

Note that we have not installed an EVSE – we do all home charging on a granny charger. This mostly suits us, there have been a few times where I’ve had to charge at peak rates as I couldn’t get enough into the car on the granny charge in the off-peak window. I reckon a EVSE would cost us on the order of £1500 to install. Seems massively expensive to me for what is essentially a glorified socket and I’ve read many anecdotes of EVSEs failing.

517 -> 777 quoted with Tesco on a now 4 year old eNiro. Back down to 548 on a comparison site though the tesco quote was monthly the new policy paid upfront.

Home insurance also through this month 449 -> 491.

Got rid of our 10 years ago, only time we’ve missed it was when the kids wanted to make mug cake recipes from some book that had microwave recipes only. Can’t say it’s been a great loss, very small kitchen though, YMMV.

Ioniq Premium SE is the only car I have heard of outside luxury brands (and then only top spec models) that has ventilated seats!

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The top spec Niro and eNiro have it too, I would expect that all the Kia/Hyundia line would probably be the same but just a guess (my dad’s MHEV Niro has them).

How many times do you tow the horse in a year? At £100 for the horse box vs 6k-8k + servicing for an old car where is the break even point?

I don’t see that a 200bhp eNiro is going cheap to insure for an 18 year old.

We switched from an old Volvo 1.8 S40 to an eNiro4. Insurance went from 260 to 500 (Glasgow).

Need to sort the app out, it seems to still be registered to previous owner FFS. Not sure if anyone has any ideas on that.

There’s a reset button on the headunit that you need to press with a pin or something similar. This resets everything including the link to the previous owner. After setting it up again it should work with the App.

One of the key things putting me off an EV is the spurious carbon emission claims. It is currently very rare for the marginal gereation of the UK grid to be renewable. So if I choose to put say 10kwh into an EV, that additional 10kwh gets generated by burning more gas, not by solar panels or wind turbines managing to squeeze out an extra 10kwh. Even when the UK grid is being powered 50% by renewables, generating extra power must be done 100% by burning more gas.

AFAIU this is a spurious argument as even if we accept the premise that EVs are 100% charged via gas the efficiency of the gas to wheel is higher than petrol/diesel to wheel in terms of CO2 output.

Beyond that a high proportion of EV charging is done overnight and this will be significantly provided by wind turbines even now.

No way, so unfair. First came across him with Big Black and then he went on to produce many of my favourite albums as I was growing up. Can’t believe he’s gone at 61.

I wouldn’t mind if someone invented a toaster sized for a standard slice of bread, instead of leaving an uncooked strip sticking out of the toaster

This one works for me (Panasonic breadmaker that make extra tall bread).

Can’t you do it if your car is one of the natively supported cars, i.e. you don’t need Ohme?

Sorry, you are correct. I had totally overlooked this as our car isn’t supported!

I travel 70 miles round trip to work daily .. motorway and a road… In office 3 to 5 days per week depending on meeting schedule.

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With granny charging from a three pin at home plus top up at chargers in car park. Not most cost effective.

Can I join octopus or intelligent charging provider using a three pin option. Does it need a charge port?

We have been pretty exclusively charging with a granny charger for 9 months with an eNiro.

We were on Octopus Go (4hrs 9p/kWh & 25.53p/kWh) but have just changed to Eon Drive (7 hrs 7p/kWh & 29.7p/kWh). You can’t do Octopus Intelligent Go with a granny charger (well you can AFAIK with the Ohme granny charger but these are stupidly expensive 2nd hand).

The Eon tariff looks cheaper to me where we are doing ~12k miles/year and ~4MWh annual consumption for the house.

In the 4 hours I can put ~35 miles into the battery on the granny charger, in 7 hours it should be ~65 miles.

My daughter got the next one down in the range that these are in for DoE and I was very impressed with them.

Glasgow to Aberdeen and back this week in an eNiro this week. 4.3 miles/kWh on the way out, 65 on the speedo (~60 in actuality as it over reads by ~10%), 2.7 miles/kWh on the way back, 75 on the speedo. Had to slow down about 20 miles out on the way back for fear of not making it home. Think I’ll stick to 60 in the future…

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It’s a £62k car in this config and the plan would be to try and buy it at the end of the 3 years and so spec it to a spec I want to keep.

If this is really the case what is the final payment and how does this factor in. i.e. if it’s 40K you need to be saving £1111/month over those 3 years in addition to the £525, for 30K you need £833/month in addition.

If you plan to get a loan at then end then how do you feel about the risk on interest rates in 3 years time?

Will you just end up flipping in reality?

Yes sure but the £10 is very competitive for a roaming monthly cost.

If you need 100GB/month probably. I’m on lebara rolling contract for 6.90 12gb roaming and smarty 50gb (not sure if it’s roaming) for 8/month.

Still a decent deal even accounting for this but a little more expensive than it looks.

£14.99/month here

<edit> I guess I mis understand, you are discounting this at £10/month.

Probably this goes up at 3% + inflation or something each year so probably a bit more and you are stuck in a contract for 24 months.</edit>

On a slightly tangential topic…

We’re in the suburbs of Glasgow. I went through a lot of trial and error before getting a bird feeder that was squirrel proof.

This has been great, we go through masses of sunflower seeds year round.

Well it was great until we realised that the scraps from the feeders caused a rat infestation. We’ve been rat free for a few months now but haven’t dared to put the bird feeders out again yet.

Any tips on how to feed without also attracting rats?

Same as above, I dislocated my shoulder when I was 30. I did quite a bit to strengthen my shoulder. Didn’t really make any difference. After the first time it came out many times. In the end got surgery snd it’s not come out since. I am now conscious not to get into dangerous positions though. Definitely wouldn’t be playing rugby.

As per gobuchul’s suggestion, something like https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grandstream-HT-812-2FXS-Gateway-Black/dp/B01M2ZJQAF along with a 4g router would allow you to use any analog phone over VOIP.

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Looks like https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Telephony-Removable-Configuration-TL-MR6500v/dp/B08MFQB761 is a router + sip server integrated into one box.

Never used this so can’t vouch for it but expect it would be fine.

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https://youtu.be/DH219SBE3SA?feature=shared

Like above, it it’s one of these then easiest thing is to open it and unscrew it!

What mode/speed is that in?

It’s a Meaco Zambezi DD8L at speed 2. This uses around 600W. Speed 1 uses half but extraction is half also. Speed 3 uses slightly more.

For drying clothes it’s best if you can set it up in an enclosed space. We have a curtained off alcove 1m x 2m × 2m. When running in thete the temperature gets up to 27C just from the heat from the dehumidifier and the clothes dry pretty quickly (3 – 4 hours).

Be warned that running a dessicant dehumidifier for a significant amount of time can get expensive.

We use a meaco dd8l and I can clearly spot the month we bought it from the electricity bills.

At current electricity it costs around £4 to run for 24 hours, so £120/month.

I think the actual battery temperature has as much or more impact than the heater, if you have a heat pump.

eNiro with heatpump here. We’ve gone from 4.5 to 5 miles/kWh in August to 3.2 to 3.6 in the last week as reported on the trip computer.

We’re in Glasgow (been -3 to +5), local trips across the city twice a day, 10 miles each way. Heater set to 19C, steering wheel heater used.

Only ever used it for chains though

I gave up doing chains after 2 snapped!

I guess I can’t say 100% it was the Ultrasonic Cleaner (similar to the one above but without the drain). I’ve never had a chain snap before or since thought.

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£480 for an eNiro 12k miles, both of us 47. Glasgow suburbs. Up from £260 last year in a 53 plate s40.