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Hi, I'm Gary and this is episode 267 of EV Musings, a podcast about renewables, electric vehicles
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and things that are interesting to electric vehicle owners.
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All on the show today we'll be going back to basics in the first of the series of episodes
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I like to call EV 101.
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This season of the podcast is sponsored by ZAPMAP, the go-to app for EV drivers helping you find
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and pay for public charging with confidence.
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Tusker, salary sacrifice car scheme.
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It's an affordable way to drive electric via an employer benefit scheme, a complete
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car package including insurance, MOTs, replacement tires, routine service and maintenance as
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well as full breakdown cover, all for a fixed monthly amount and with no deposit
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or upfront payments.
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Now our main topic of discussion today is EV basics and this is the first of three episodes
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in a short series that I've put together for you.
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Across this series we're going to be going back and laying out the whole EV thing for
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absolute beginners.
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So let me explain because I think a little bit of explanation is in order.
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Now I've been putting out podcast episodes now for about seven years and across 260
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plus episodes I've covered all sorts of EV related topics from your first day with
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an EV, charging, roaming, the grid, the AA, range anxiety, driving long distances, insurance,
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charge safety, tires, fires, everything.
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If there's a topic related to electric vehicles there's a very good chance I've got
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an episode on it or even two if it's an episode in a fast moving part or sector
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but if you're someone sitting outside the EV sphere or bubble and you're thinking
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about getting an EV it can look like a complicated thing to get right.
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I mean we've got charge curves and preconditioning and roaming cars and the public charge point
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regulations 2023 not to mention expensive public charging, CCS, Chatham-O, fast charging,
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rapid charging, ultra rapid charging.
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I mean who wants to sit and listen to 260 episodes of a podcast to learn enough to
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be able to drive a car?
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It's all so complicated, right?
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So over the next three fairly short digestible episodes we're bringing you back to basics.
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What do you absolutely need to know before you get your EV, how do you choose your EV
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and what do you need to do on day one?
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We're going to be talking about the following things.
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Who should and probably shouldn't go electric right now.
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Different ways to get an EV so hiring, leasing, buy, new, second hand, salary, sacrifice.
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We're going to be talking about the test drive to do and what not to do.
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We're going to be looking at home charging or not and we're going to be looking at
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taking delivery and driving your car, regen braking, high power, the apps you need, etc.
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And we'll be looking at charging your car at home or on the street, we'll be looking
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at doing a long distance journey and we'll be looking at charging your car on a public
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Now we'll split these topics up across three episodes so you can focus in on the one
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you really need to answer your specific question.
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Now in this episode we'll be discussing who should get an electric car?
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Should it be new or used?
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We'll be looking at leasing, buying and test driving.
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In the next episode we'll assume you've got your car and it's either arrived on the
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back of a low loader or you've got to pick it up from a dealer.
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And in the final episode, number three, we'll look at public charging and driving a long
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distance in your EV.
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So let's get started.
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So the first thing we want to talk about is who should and probably shouldn't go
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electric right now.
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Now whilst I would love everyone to be driving around in an electric car, the truth is that
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at the moment there are use cases where an electric car isn't quite right for everyone.
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The big question you need to ask yourself is whether you can park your car off street
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and gain access to an electricity source.
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Now if you can, then it's well worth getting an electric vehicle.
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If you can't, so you might live in a terrorist house, then it's not the end of the world.
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It's more to do with what's the local charging infrastructure like nearby.
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Do you have a workplace that has chargers?
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Do you live in one of the cities that's had a payment charging everywhere so you can
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So take an honest look at your situation and make the decision.
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Now I know many people with no home charging, they make use of public charging infrastructure
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via payment chargers or enroute chargers, and we'll talk about those a little later.
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In fact I did a whole episode about those EV drivers in season 11, episode 290 if you want
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You can also get access to a home charge if your car is parked on a pavement outside
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your house, via a device such as a gully or kerbo charge which is a channel installed
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across the pavement into which your charging cable can sit without being a trip hazard.
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There are other alternatives such as the charge bridge by Nodum that threads the cable over
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people's heads in a lamppost style arrangement across the pavement, and again we talked about
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both of these in episode 214.
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Now if you live in an apartment and it has underground parking and more than 30 spaces,
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you can look at a company such as Charge Guru who provide a charging service as
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needed by liaising directly with your landlord and we spoke about this in episode 226.
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Now if none of these apply to you and there's no local charging infrastructure you can use
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and no workplace charging, then you should probably think about delaying the transition
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to electric for a while until the situation changes, but that's not the only thing
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that plays into this.
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Let's talk about your use case.
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Do you drive hundreds and hundreds of miles every day needing to carry a half a tonne in
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the back towing a trailer or a caravan?
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What about if you're someone who only buys 5th, 6th, 7th hand cars and you never want
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to spend more than about, I don't know, £500 and then you'll run them right into
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Now both of these scenarios are outside the range of electric vehicles right now
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but this will change.
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So former guest of the podcast Dr Ewan McTurk did calculations once that proved it even if
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somebody gave you a free car, a free petrol car, it can end up costing more than an electric
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vehicle due to fuel savings, servicing savings, etc.
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Remember purchase price is just a small part of the cost of running a car, add up the
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total of cost, insurance, servicing, vehicle size, duty, fuel and compare the values
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for EV and petrol especially if you have off-street parking.
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What I would also caution you not to do is to buy an EV based on the longest journey you
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do in a given year.
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I have someone tell me once that he'd never buy an EV because he drove to the south of
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France every year on holiday and he could do it in one tank of diesel and no EV can
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Well, apart from the fact that he's incorrect about the fact no EV can do it, YouTuber
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Andrew Till has done the UK to Rome run in multiple EVs quite easily.
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The comparison of one tank of diesel to multiple charge stops is not a great one and
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we'll cover that in a later episode.
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Just remember that as Jack Sile Scarlett said on this very podcast, you wouldn't buy your
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shoes based on the fact that you go skiing once a year so you'll need ski boots so why
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buy your car the same way.
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The other thing to avoid doing is buying a car based on the manufacturer's stated
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range and that's what's called the WLTP range and is calculated using a rather
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esoteric set of criteria.
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The range that comes from it is neither accurate nor reliable.
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This meant purely as a means of doing a comparison between different vehicles.
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I released an episode earlier this season that discusses WLTP, the standard for vehicle range
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evaluation and why it shouldn't be relied on so check that out if you're interested
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Now my advice to you is to go to a site such as the evdatabase.org, put in your
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potential car and look at the real world ranges they display for you.
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The values shown there are more reliable than the WLTP ranges.
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These show ranges you can expect in warm weather and cold weather because it's different, around
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town, on a run, on a motorway.
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Now if you regularly need a car that will easily take you on a 250 mile motorway trip
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without a problem, find one where the cold weather highway range gets close to that.
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Don't rely on manufacturer's WLTP range to guide you.
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But if you only do this trip once in a blue moon, buying a car with a large
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battery that will meet that need is both expensive because bigger batteries mean more
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expensive EVs and it's a bit of a waste because you'll be hauling around batteries you don't
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need for 99% of the time when you're not actually doing that 200 plus mile trip.
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So let's assume you've looked at your criteria, you've decided that you can work with
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an electric car and you're now looking to see how to get one on your drive.
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Let's look at that, the different ways you can get an EV, hiring, leasing, buying,
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you, sent hand, salary, sacrifice.
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And we'll assume you're in the large proportion of the population who can
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feasibly move to electric.
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The next thing you'll need to look at is how you get there.
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What are the ways of getting an electric vehicle on your drive?
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Well, there are actually quite a few of them.
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Let's start with the really easy ones.
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There are companies such as Zimbal in Bambream, we've had them on the show.
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And Europe Car, nationwide, we've had them on the show.
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And they'll rent you an electric car with everything included for
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you to see if you like it.
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If that Europe Car will even lease you one on the monthly basis,
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including insurance and servicing.
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And all you need to do is get the electricity to fuel it.
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Now, it's probably a great way to see whether it works for you.
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Back in the day when I was young, there were things like the electric
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vehicle experience center that were brand diagnostic.
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And it would loan EVs for a weekend or four days, complete with a charging
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card, so it cost you nothing to charge.
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And you could try them out.
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And that's how I got my first electric vehicle.
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Unfortunately, the EVC is no longer around.
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And perhaps the concept should be reinstated.
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The next way of getting an electric car and one that's increasingly popular
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for the cost-saving aspect is salary sacrifice or sales sack.
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Yes, so I'm Cheryl Clements.
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I'm head of business development at Tusker Direct.
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Now, we're here to talk about salary sacrifice.
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So if I was to ask you to give me a quick sort of 15-second pitch
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for salary sacrifice, what would that be, please?
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So salary sacrifice allows employers to provide cars to their employees
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as part of employee benefits, green cars, so electric cars and hybrids as well,
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and also make tax and NISavings for the employee,
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as well as the employer making employers NISavings on the cars.
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And who specifically is it designed for?
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Because it's not everybody who's employed.
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So like I'm employed, but I'm self-employed.
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So can I get a salary sacrifice offering?
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It would be companies that have a number of employees with employee benefits in place.
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And it's typically something that's done through salary sacrifice
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and employee benefits portal.
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So it doesn't tend to work for individuals as such.
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What is it that salary sacrifice offers
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that me going out and getting a lease car of my own
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or buying a car of my own doesn't give?
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What's the USP for a salary sacrifice?
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Definitely the tax and NISavings on the gross reduction that's coming out of salary,
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which is great, as long as the car is 75 grams of CO2 and below.
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But it's more about tapping into the leasing company that's providing it.
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So the provider, they get really good discounts from manufacturers and dealers
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because they're buying a lot of volume.
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There's discounted motor insurance, discounted servicing maintenance and that sort of thing.
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So all of that coming out discounted from gross reduction
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and then making tax and NISavings.
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They're currently from our dealings.
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There is no cheaper way of getting an employee into one of these cars.
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So do you have sort of some ballpark figures for what this would look like
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for say a base rate taxpayer?
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How would that actually work?
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What would that look like from the bottom line on their take-home salary?
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Yeah, it's really difficult to say because there's so many different variables that go into a quote.
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So for example, you can have the car between two and five years with Tusker.
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There's a set mileage as well.
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So if you're doing lexano mileage and you only choose 5,000 miles a year,
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then clearly it's going to be cheaper for you than if you're doing 20 or 25 or even 30, etc.
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Also depends on the employee's age
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because that will affect the motor insurance premium.
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So once all of those elements have gone in to make up the quotation,
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it's kind of an average, an average saving for an employer.
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And employers and I have about 731 pounds a year for everyone coming into the scheme.
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But it's typically much more than that even for 20% taxpayers.
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Are there other things that you can actually get through a salary sacrifice scheme?
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Or is it just electric vehicles?
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Well, there's four mandated salary sacrifice schemes in the UK currently under current legislation, let's say.
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And that's electric cars, ultra-low emission cars, cars of 75 grams and below.
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Pensions, which can be salary sacrificed.
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Child care, although that's kind of less on the remit of employee benefits now.
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And bike to work schemes.
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So those are the kind of four mandated by the government.
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There are other ways of doing salary sacrifice,
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but you don't make the NI savings with them.
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OK, that makes sense.
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Now, I mentioned a few seconds ago about the fact that I'm sort of self-employed
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and you said, no, it has to be within a company
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and there's got to be a minimum number of individuals employed there for the scheme to work.
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But is there a way of a number of different individuals
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banding together to create like a generic salary sacrifice company
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that could be used then to have a scheme applied against it?
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Unfortunately, not, no.
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So if you're self-employed, you're not taking a...
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You're not being paid through a payroll.
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You're not taking a salary as such.
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You might be taking dividends or being paid another way.
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It has to be through an employer to comply with HMRC salary sacrifice rules.
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So it has to be taken from the payroll.
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So the structure of the scheme is from the supplier to the employer.
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They're leasing the car directly from the supplier.
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And then the employer makes that car available to the employee
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in lieu of salary as a non-cash benefit.
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That's how it works.
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So the idea is that supplier has a hands-off financial arrangement
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with the employee directly, which doesn't happen if you're self-employed.
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And is salary sacrifice only for new cars?
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Or is there the option to get what they call pre-owned vehicles on salary sacrifice?
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Typically, they are brand new cars.
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But in recent years, we definitely brought our pre-loved scheme to the marketplace.
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So that's cars that we've got up to three years old
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that are coming back of contract that go through a 200-point safety check.
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From a health and safety perspective, that's paramount.
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So all the cars are known to us.
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We know what they're servicing history they've had, et cetera.
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And if they are in really good condition and really low mileage,
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then we're repurposing those and putting them back out.
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So that's also helping.
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People can take them up to five years as well from that.
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So you could be driving a three-year car over an additional five years,
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which is much cheaper.
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So it's helping with national living wage as well,
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because eligibility for the scheme is one of the barriers
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that's been quoted by employers recently.
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Talk to me a little bit about Tusker as a company
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and how they play in the salary sacrifice space.
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Because we've talked fairly generically about salary sacrifice.
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What is it that Tusker offered that maybe other salary sacrifice companies don't?
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So Tusker was first to market with the scheme in 2009
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when the benefiting kind taxation changed.
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And we realised that actually it would be more advantageous
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for employees to drive much lower emission cars.
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We decided to specialise in that a long time ago.
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And because of that, three years ago were bought by Lloyds Banking Group
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to be now the sole salary sacrifice provider
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within the Transport Division, which is fantastic.
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Tusker's USPs, that's all we do.
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So we are salary sacrifice specialists.
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All of our systems have been built around salary sacrifice.
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It takes into account nuances with different pension schemes,
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particularly within the public sector.
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It only shows employees' cars they're entitled to see
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that won't take the below national living wage,
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which is one of the key elements.
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Our lifestyle protection, so the risk removal,
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what happens if somebody leaves or goes on maternity leave, etc.
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Employers understandably don't want to be left with a car in the car park
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that they're having to pay for and can't reallocate to anybody else.
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So it's looking at the scheme to be employee and employer centric.
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So it's got to work really well for the employee,
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be really good value, no hassle, just ring one number
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when you need something done, etc.
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And for the employer, it's not like running a separate
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traditional company car fleet on the side.
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This is a fully outsourced employee benefit.
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So it's got to work for both.
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So that would be Tusker's USPs.
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So does Tusker act as a vehicle provider,
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or are you just the financier of the whole scheme?
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We are the financier.
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So what we're doing is an employee will come onto the portal,
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they'll run a quote on, let's say, Ford Focus or Ford Puma,
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which has now just been confirmed to get the EV grant, by the way,
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if anybody's watching this and thinking about a car,
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get £3,750 of a Ford Puma.
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I'm not on commission for Ford.
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What they can do is come into the portal,
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we will then, once they place their order,
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we'll go out to the dealer network to see who has got that car in stock.
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So we're very much working closely with the dealer network
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for all manufacturers and also the manufacturers
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to see who can supply the car the quickest.
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And then we will purchase that car as part of the arrangement
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and have the car delivered onto the employee.
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So we are very much funding those cars
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and managing them in life, obviously.
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Now, one of the big issues or questions
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that I like to address in the podcast
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is the whole topic of educating individuals
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who are new to electric vehicles.
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So you've got people on your scheme.
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This will be potentially the first EV they've ever taken delivery of.
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So who has that responsibility
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for ensuring that the new drivers get training
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on things like public charging and regenerative braking
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and removing the little rubber bung from the charge socket
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to release the high-voltage pins?
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Who has that responsibility?
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Yes, it's all really simple stuff, isn't it,
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when you know what to do.
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But if you don't know what to do, it's highly confusing.
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So that responsibility is down to the employee
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to understand what it is,
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because they are having a new piece of kit delivered effectively.
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But within the Tusker Portal,
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specifically, we have the EV Hub.
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And what that does is explain to employees
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from the ground up, basically, what an electric vehicle is,
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how you charge it, what the public infrastructure looks like.
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We've got a tie-up with ZapMap.
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So we put them in touch with ZapMap.
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ZapMap have some wonderful stuff on their app as well,
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not just locating the right charger for your car,
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but some other information as well.
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But equally, then when the car is delivered,
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it's the part of the arrangement is that the delivery driver
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will make sure that the employee is happy
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and knows how to start the car.
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Sometimes you get in to an electric
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and you can't even start it.
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So it's like, where's the start button?
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I can't even find, there's no key.
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So even that sometimes is a revelation to people.
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So we do suggest strongly in our SLAs for dealers
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that they do take the employee around the car
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and make sure they're comfortable
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with being able to drive it before they leave.
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And Nina Gales, you want to say about salary sacrifice
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Only just to reiterate that what I said previously about,
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it is there is no better way for an employee
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to get into one of these cars.
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It does support the government's road to zero
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We're not expecting any changes on that.
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Who knows, things change on a daily basis,
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but we're not expecting any changes on that at all.
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So really, if you haven't got a scheme in place,
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then of course do your due diligence
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within the market select a provider
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that can manage the risk elements,
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make sure that they are being employee
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and employer centric and put the scheme in place
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and make the most of it while we can.
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Salary sacrifice is basically a way
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to get an electric company car.
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It's provided by the company,
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it's owned by the company,
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it's insured and maintained by the company.
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But in order to get it,
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your salary is reduced by an amount each month.
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Now what this does is it gives you
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the company car as normal,
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but it also reduces your tax burden.
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So instead of paying tax on say 3,000 pounds per month,
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you're only paying tax on 2,500 pounds per month
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but getting a company car alongside that.
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If your company does sell sack,
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it's worth seeing what cars they have on the list.
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If you can find one that fits your lifestyle,
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as noted above, it's well worth looking at that.
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For more on salary sacrifice,
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why not ask your employees to get in contact with Tusker,
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the sponsors of today's episode
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and a major salary sacrifice provider.
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Now we did cover salary sacrifice in great detail
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in episode 152, the new EV episode.
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Of course, if you are so inclined,
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you can always go out there,
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get yourself a dealer and buy one.
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Take a big bag of cash and negotiate with the dealer
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and see what sort of a discount you can get.
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Now remarkably few people actually do that
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as a way of buying a new car nowadays,
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but don't rule it out.
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However, with the current residual values of EVs,
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it's probably not a great thing to do.
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You could lose a lot of money
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in depreciation in the first year or so.
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Now the next way of getting an electric vehicle is leasing.
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And there are many companies out there
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that will lease you an EV.
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My last two EVs came through Drive Electric,
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which is a lease company.
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Now how this works is quite simple.
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You select the car you want from their list,
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you let them know the deposit you want to put down
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and how many months you want the lease for
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and then you tell them how many miles
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you want to drive across the length of the lease
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and they'll calculate a monthly lease cost.
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My first lease on the Kia Soul EV was 36 months,
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zero down, 12,000 miles per year
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and it came to a grand total of 290 pounds per month.
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My second lease, the ID3, was 1,200 pounds down,
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36 months and 10,000 miles per year
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and that came to 335 pounds per month.
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Now there are some really good lease deals
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available on some cars.
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It all depends on supply and demand
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and how much the dealers who supply the cars
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Usually at the end of a lease,
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you'll have to give the car back
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although some type of leases give you the option
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to pay an amount to take full ownership of the vehicle
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but not all of them do.
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So be aware of that,
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you'll have to check the terms and conditions
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Now finally, there is a way that most people
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would get an EV which is the second hand car market.
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Now for quite a while the second hand car market
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for EVs was quite small and prices were high.
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Nowadays that's not the case.
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In many instances EVs are less expensive
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than similar ICE cars on the second hand market
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and I have an episode coming a little later on this season
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talking all about buying a second hand EV
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but the short version of this is
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make sure you get the battery checked,
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make sure you test drive it
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and always buy from a reputable dealer.
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One of the most important parts of the buying process
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especially for someone who's never driven an EV before
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Unfortunately it's one of the least understood
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and misused aspects of the buying process as well
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and this is for two reasons.
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The first reason is that people tend to equate
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test driving an EV with test driving a fossil fuel car
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and unfortunately they're not the same things.
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And secondly, dealers often have less information
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than the people wanting to buy the car
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and this leads to all sorts of poor advice
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So let's look at these two things.
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Back in the day when everyone had been driving
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internal combustion engine cars for years
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if you wanted a new car a test drive was great.
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It let you know if the car was suitable for you
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whether it was comfortable
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whether you could fit the dogs in the back
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that's a quick nod to Laura Hustwick-Wilch from Power
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and what sort of performance you could get out of it.
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As ICE cars were pretty much the same
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in terms of how they operate
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and what you could do with them
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once you knew these things
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a decision was often quite easy to make.
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The problem is that EVs are totally different.
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If you've been driving them for a while
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it's fairly easy to see what you do
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and don't like about say an ID3 over a BYD Dolphin
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or a Polestar 2 over a Tesla Model 3.
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But if you've never driven an electric car before
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this is much more than a test drive
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to see if you like the car.
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It's more an examination to see if it will work for you.
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Now I've told this story before
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and I kind of mentioned it earlier on
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but when I got my first EV
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I borrowed a similar model
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from the EV Experience Center in Milton Keynes
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and I ran it for a number of days.
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During that time I did all the usual trips
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that I would do so I did a commute
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I did a trip to a specific place
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I visit regularly but not frequently
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I did all my local runs around the area
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for shopping, et cetera and leisure activities.
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I checked what the local charging was like
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as well as the charging at the destinations
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that I usually went to.
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And once I'd done that
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I knew I could live with an electric car
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and this electric car specifically
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and that's when I put down the order
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but you can't do that in a 20 minute test drive.
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That's why you need an EV
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especially if it's your first EV
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ideally for about 48 hours.
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You need to be able to do long and short runs in it
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you need to be able to see how it charges
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at home and how it charges on the public network
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so don't go for a 20 minute test drive
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and make your decision solely based on that
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but as well as doing that
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if you get to speak to a dealer
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make sure you understand whether the dealer knows
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about EVs and can give you good advice.
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Ask whether he or she drives electric themselves
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ask how many dealers at the dealership drive electric
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if it's one or two out of the whole dealership
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that's a sign they're not necessarily invested in electric.
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Ask them a simple question such as
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how large is the battery?
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If they answer something like 77 kilowatts
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you know they don't really understand
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what they're talking about.
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The correct answer is 77 kilowatt hours
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it might not sound like a big difference
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but if you'd ask the same dealer a similar question
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about a car with an internal combustion engine
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what's the top speed of that car
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or that car will top out at 155 miles per gallon
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you'd seriously question
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whether they knew what they were talking about wouldn't you?
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Now I did a full episode on test drives
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back in episode 217
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again linked in the show notes
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if you want to check that out.
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Now that's pretty much all you need to do
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when thinking about an electric vehicle.
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Very easily you work out
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whether you can live with one.
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You decide how you're going to get one
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finance it, buy it outright, lease it, hire it, whatever.
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You take several of them out on extended test drives
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and you see if they fit your lifestyle
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and you place your order.
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So let's do a quick recap.
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You've checked to see whether electric works for you.
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You've looked at different ways
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of taking ownership of one.
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You've test driven a couple ideally
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for more than a day or so
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and you've finally pulled the trigger
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and ordered and bought one, new or sent hand.
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So what comes next?
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Well, we'll look more into that in the next episode
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when we look at what happens
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when the car gets delivered
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and what to do on your first day in an electric vehicle.
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And that's in next week's episode.
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It's time for a cool EB or renewable thing
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to share with you listeners.
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of its 1,000 strong company car fleet by 2026,
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one year ahead of schedule.
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The move is part of the operator's wider strategy
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to achieve net zero emissions across its operations by 2030.
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Now it's good to see the big companies moving forward
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with electrification,
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more so where they end up doing it ahead of schedule.
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So well done, Vodafone.
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You know I learned recently that he's one of these people
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that can solve a Rubik's cube without looking at it?
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I asked if it was something he could teach me
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when you know what to do
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