Save Money And Reduce Emissions With An Electric Vehicle

Buying an electric vehicle can save you a considerable amount of money on the running costs compared with petrol or diesel. Electric vehicle charging costs less per mile to run and there are other benefits too.

For instance, as an electric vehicle has no internal combustion engine it doesn’t need spark plugs, timing belts, and oil changes, and an electric motor doesn’t need routine maintenance.

One very big benefit of an electric vehicle is that you can plug it in when you get home in the evening, and when you wake up in the morning you can have a “full tank” ready to go. Of course, there are not yet enough charging stations nationally, but in Scotland, ChargePlace Scotland has over 1,000 public charging points and says that the average distance between any Scottish location and the nearest public charging point is just 2.78 miles. That compares with 3.77 miles in England (https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/over-1000-electric-vehicle-charge-points-in-scotland/).

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Easy EV Charging For Everyone If The Tories Return To Power

If you have concerns about the environment, as many people do, one way that you can help is by making your next car an electric vehicle instead of buying petrol or diesel. There are, of course, commercial charging stations, but not enough yet. However, all that is about to change if we get a Conservative government, because Boris Johnson said on his campaign trail only a couple of days ago that he intends to double spending on charging stations to £18 billion over the next five years and that nobody would be more than 30 miles from a charging station.

Of course, if you have off-street parking you can install a home EV charger which is ideal because you can charge your car overnight. Furthermore, you can also get an OLEV grant towards the cost of a home charger of up to £500, and if you live in Scotland you can get a further grant of £300 from the Energy Saving Trust, so between the two the major part of the cost is covered for you.

Many businesses are now starting to install chargers for their staff, and using a workplace charger may be free if your company decides to offer it as a perk. If the company has a sales team it will need to install chargers so that the salespeople can charge their cars when they attend the office for sales meetings. Office staff, too, will be able to drive to work and charge up during the day.

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Drive Your Car For Free!

We have to face the fact that the day of the internal combustion engine will very shortly be over. It has worked wonders for the world for over 100 years but is now having a devastating effect on the climate of the planet and is shortly to be replaced by electric power.

There are actually many benefits to using electric power in a car, not the least of which is that there is no requirement for oil changes, servicing, and all the other things that come with owning a car and which we have all become used to. So there is an immediate cost saving there.

It gets better because the cost of powering a car by electricity is considerably less than that of petrol or diesel, so it costs less money to go the same distance. What’s not to like?

It can get even better than that. How about if it cost you nothing at all to run your car? No petrol, no oil, no servicing, and free electricity?

More and more savvy homeowners are installing solar panels on their roofs in order to obtain energy from the sun. It seems likely that the sun will go on producing energy for a few million more years yet, so solar power is the way to go. It’s free!

All you then need to do is to install a solar power charging station in your home using the power provided by your photovoltaic panels and you are good to go.

For free!