I'm wouldn't be comfortable asking my clients to charge my car at their house.
I can see that ... the reality (costwise) is different of course - indeed, you could pay them for the juice, perhaps they would be surprised how little it actually was and thus you would also be widening the EV education. I was wondering whether, given that you are selling AV home entertainment solutions, your clients would actually think it was cool? Perhaps the package you install should include an EV charging point - and then avail yourself of immediately
. But I do understand that some, many, maybe even all, your clients would turn their nose up.
changing my driving style considerably just to drive a cool car would detract from the cool facto
Yup. Coolest thing for me is leaving home with a full tank of fuel each day. Conversations with non-EV people about spending 30 minutes charging, and their inevitable negativity to that, I follow up with "How often do you do more than 250 miles in a day? I leave home every day with a full tank of fuel, so the occasional 30 minute [
yeah, bit economical with the truth there!!] FREE refuelling stop every 3 hours on a long journey is about when I need a break anyway".
even then I don't think the extra 40 miles or whatever would make a huge difference (certainly not for the extra cost)
Absolutely 100% my thought too. I was very tempted to take early delivery of the 85 instead of paying for the 90 on the grounds that I had already had that thought when I placed my original order and my reasons for NOT buying the 90 where "
too expensive for just a few miles". Of course now I've paid the money anyway and my thinking is coloured by having the use of it rather than the prospect of a big purchase price
; I've never been in a situation where those few miles would have made the difference to getting home, and not, but every week they make a difference to how long I have to charge and, perhaps more importantly, to how quickly I can gain miles at a supercharger. The 90 charges significantly more miles (from "empty") in the first 30 minutes than a 75 will do. But, yeah, its a depreciating asset and paying off debt, or buying a house, is a better use of the money if you can only spend it just the once ...
Interesting read, and the pain associated with being an early adopter. My wife has two comments about the S: its too wide to park at the station and there aren't enough superchargers (not sure that anything less than every street corner! would swing her on that point ...)
My only thought would be that you look into location of, say, Ecotricity chargers. They are £6 for 30 minutes, which is probably about the same price as Petrol, so not brilliant, but if they are in locations that suit you when travelling back from clients AND if you can use 30 minutes to do EMails etc.? then the time is not wasted. I have a Driver setting called "Charging" that moves the seat back and the wheel up for max working space. Worth considering that you do not have to stand there pumping petrol, nor queue to pay, so if you can use the time whilst charging it is better than the time lost fuelling an ICE.