Regional NSW, BP, Ultimate (98) unleaded... filled up Thursday night at 247.9 per litre.
You're probably dead-right, I'm no expert in cars, and old habits die hard. The idea behind using it was to look after the car, as I imagined I would get 10-15 years out of it. 3 years ago, when I bought the Forester, there were few EV's around, and whilst I was aware of the technology, there wasn't an offering in Australia that suited my use case (which I will readily admit, is a bit non-usual).
Slightly OT for this thread, but we use 98 for our hybrid. I did a fuel efficiency comparison about 15 years ago over thousands of km in a 6 cylinder engine. 98 was 10% more efficient than 91. E94 was 10% less efficient that 91. Factor this in the price of the fuel and 91 & 98 cost roughly the same, and E94 is terrible value.
A lot of Euro cars recommend 98. Though 95 often suffices. So maybe on one level a comparison of high performance IcE petrols with similarly high performance EV should be using U98 as a comparator
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This smacks of internal empire-building within the organisation.
Because they're part owners of a charging app that provides that service to third parties? It's not exactly a great advertisement for the service if their own owner won't use it...
I'm dreaming that NRMA (and then RAA?) could just bake the Chargefox APIs into their app, so you could find stations, start/stop charging in the NRMA app - or the Chargefox app.
Albeit with the current SA network and future part Arena funded network, there will be many NRMA charging customers for whom NRMA can't sell roadside services.
Exactly. I suspect use of that NRMA charger will drop considerably once not free. Its not exactly in the most convenient place unless living in the SOP Tower blocks.
