Incredible. I wish I didn't have to make the occasional long journey which ruins my data but then I guess that's why I bought a hybrid rather than a pure EV!

 

I’m lucky enough to have a charger at work, it took a little convincing and cajoling but they fitted two chargers in the end, I still have to pay for the electric but it’s cheap as chips. It’s due to this setup that I can get those figures.

 

Can you tell me how you did this? What benefits did you sell to them to convince them to install?

Im trying to convince my work but not sure how. I know they will have a number of company electric cars in the future, but right now they don't. Also, even if they did install them now to prepare for the future, how would I be able to convince them I should use them for my personal car?

 

Delighted to have reached over 2000 miles from one tank of fuel. Got a few miles to do tomorrow so may well have to fill up but though I’d share this with you all. As soon as I saw the GTE I knew it was the car for me. View attachment 81953

WOW!! very impressive. What's your typical journey profile? I've confirmed build date 19th March and can't wait. Currently driving Mobex R line which is averaging below 40 mpg and costing me a fortune.

 

Typical journey to work and back is a fairly busy A road which runs parallel with the m40, its a little undulating and is a 14 mile run in total. At the moment my car is suggesting a battery mileage of 29 miles (because it is cold I assume) when I set off and by the time I get to work the car "suggests" I have 10 miles left in the battery which isn't quite enough to get home... (its usually 15 in the summer rather than 10) but still not enough to get home as I think I get around 3/4 of a mile rather than a mile if you get my meaning. Hence the charge up at work. So I am able to pretty much use electric all the time. I will definitely consider an EV next time around as the mileage I do would suit it.

 

Luckily enough I'm in a relatively new office, and it has two underground charging bays - which are very rarely used. Also stay in Scotland so qualify for the fully funded charger. Still, I'd be absolutely delighted with 2,000 miles on one tank. Well done @wampa

 

Can you tell me how you did this? What benefits did you sell to them to convince them to install?

Im trying to convince my work but not sure how. I know they will have a number of company electric cars in the future, but right now they don't. Also, even if they did install them now to prepare for the future, how would I be able to convince them I should use them for my personal car?

There are two of us at work who use PHEVs. Though the other guy only had the use of a PHEV occasionally as it is his Wifes car. The company I work for are fairly forward thinking and much of the "selling" was about being green and more importantly to be seen being green. I think thats a really good advantage. The guy at work who I spoke to about getting one installed was actually looking at getting one installed sometime ago (I think he was looking at getting a Tesla but bottled it in the end). So the charger went on the back burner. As a fluke I noticed that a car charger was being looked at because I saw some notes on it on a noticeboard.... thats is genuinely what got me looking at PHEVs in the first place. So I bought a PHEV and then started to convince work about getting a charger installed. They eventually got two installed as both myself and my colleague had the use of PHEVs so we could charge at the same time. We looked at where they could go and decided that the side of the building would be best and we could daisy chain them along the building if other people took the plunge into the EV world. It worked better that way as it didn't create a problem such as getting electric out to the far side of the car park.
Originally the plan was to get the electric for free (considering the cost per kw at work was about 9p) but they didn't really go for that because they we worried other people would kick up a stink regarding me getting electric for free! Anyway, they got two rolec wall chargers and basically fitted two cash meters which took £1 coins. It costs me about 60p a day to charge my car at work and that gets me home with 10 miles to spare, I then just top it up at home.


If your company are thinking of going forward in this way then if I was you I would try and get a meeting together with the people who would be in charge of it. I would suggest that you talk to them about employees also benefiting from the chargers and not just the company as its a great way of being green.
Its also important that you mention that benefit in kind for ev cars has been scrapped and is now not taxable so they wouldn't need to worry about the inland revenue and tax, which was something my company panicked about as well as providing free electricity.
If you company baulk at providing free electric you could go with the possibility of having chargers and swipe cards, you could have a card that you put cash on but the company cars can have a different card that gives the user free electric. There are all sorts of ways you can do it. There are fitters of charge points and systems on this forum who could help.

My advice, research all possible ways that you could get chargers at work, different types of charger, where could they go? How often would they be used? Could they be self policed? (By this I mean, if your company got them installed and didn't have to do any admin about it then they are likely to be happy about that). You might find that if you did the research and also did a bulk of the work for them you may just find that they will go for it (especially if they are thinking of doing it sometime anyway)

Apologies for the long post but I hope I have answered your question.

Feel free to come back to me if I have missed anything out or if you have any other questions.

Wampa

 

Luckily enough I'm in a relatively new office, and it has two underground charging bays - which are very rarely used. Also stay in Scotland so qualify for the fully funded charger. Still, I'd be absolutely delighted with 2,000 miles on one tank. Well done @wampa

I thought I would have to fill up sooner than expected, I did actually manage another 100 miles before refuelling on Friday! 2100 miles... awesome