Do you remember last time your filled up your ICE car?

[Jonathan S.]

Why are you mowing your batteries?

How often should I be mowing mine?

If you don’t mow your Taycan battery at least monthly then your SoH will precipitously decline!

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[mikezhang31]

The savings on gas goes to the v8 gas guzzler

 

[RGBArgee]

I only tax my sports car for the summer, I never put the roof up.
This summer the Taycan was still a novelty so I didn't bother, so the last time would have been summer 2022.
OTOH we also have plug in hybrids, one of which has a plug in range of around 30-36 miles so almost never runs the petrol engine, I last put petrol in that one in Spring when I was filling up the fuel cans for my garden tractor, hedge cutter and strimmer. It didn't -need- petrol but it felt like the polite thing to do. Its previous refuel was November 2022.
To be honest I don't notice the price - it is what it is and there is nothing I can do about it.

There is absolutely something to do about our electric oil and gas prices- have a General Election. Electric in the EU is a third the price it is in the UK. We are being taken for mugs!

 

[f1eng]

There is absolutely something to do about our electric oil and gas prices- have a General Election. Electric in the EU is a third the price it is in the UK. We are being taken for mugs!

That rather depends on your attitude to the taxpayer subsidising fuel companies I suppose.

I am not sure the Greens will get in

 

[Tsingtao]

I hit the gas station once a month or so to fill up the wife's Macan. It is a great experience that I miss tremendously as a result of driving a Taycan. For starters, stopping to refill at open air gas stations during periods of cold rainy weather helps build character, and fondling the actual gas pump handle exposes my body to new and interesting forms of bacteria which, if they don't kill me, will surely make me stronger. Additionally, the new high tech Speedway close to home is equipped with little television screens on the pumps which broadcast (at high volume) stimulating content pertaining to the purchase of gas, loyalty rewards programs, etc. But what I miss the most is surely the in-store experience (which I get whenever the credit card reader is malfunctioning). US gas stations are a veritable cornucopia of earthly delights; I can find lottery tickets (always a sound financial investment), cigarettes (great for losing weight and supporting America's tobacco farmers), high quality, factory-fresh food (can't drive on an empty stomach), and of course when nature calls, there is the convenient restroom (with puddles of urine on the floor and philosophical writings on the walls). And lest I forget, the aromas present at modern day gas stations are second to none. Outside, of course, is the smell of gasoline, cigarettes, car exhaust, garbage (from the seemingly never-emptied trash cans adjacent to the pumps), and inside is the unmistakable aroma of rotisserie hot dogs which, I have been told, are made from only the finest cuts of pig lip and anus.

 

[RGBArgee]

That rather depends on your attitude to the taxpayer subsidising fuel companies I suppose.

I am not sure the Greens will get in

I do think Taxing the obscene oil profits would be a start and actually collecting tax from non-doms would be a good start.

 

[tomw00]

Hey,

Is this a price monitoring app, or a power supplier live pricing app?

It's an app called Octopus Watch https://octopus.smarthound.uk
It has live pricing for the day ahead and then predictions for the next day.
It also has long range predictions, so for example I can see on Thursday it will be likely negative and as I won't be needing the Taycan until next weekend I will charge it then.

 

[snstevens]

Haven't filled my wife's car for over 6 months. So damn expensive, even at Costco pumps!

Can't wait to transition her car to EV or Plug-in Hybrid.

 

[Jonathan S.]

[...] But what I miss the most is surely the in-store experience [...]

Hah, love it!

Reminds me of how I stopped at a small rural gas station in northern NH coming back from ski mountaineering in the Presidentials Range in spring 2021.
Upon returning home, I remarked to my wife that NH must have lifted its mask mandate, since the customers inside were universally unmasked, in contrast to an early-April ski strip to NH that same spring.
But I added that Covid exposure probably ranked below other lifestyle morbidities among the customers.
My wife indignantly questioned how I could conclude that!
I explained that the to-be-purchased items held by people waiting in line exclusively comprised lottery tix, cigs, beer, and nutrition-free caloric delivery systems only vaguely resembling what I would regard as food.

I look forward to becoming reacquainted with that vast swathe of my fellow Americans once I resort soon to using my ICE again as temps drop and road trips increase, given the state of CCS1 infrastructure in northern New England.

 

[Archimedes]

Filled the GTI yesterday. It’s annoying but infrequent, as the car has a range of 375+ miles and I don’t drive all that much. I wouldn’t be happy with hitting gas stations every week.

 

[Jrkennedy37]

Usually about 1x per month, though I took our panamera ST on a roadtrip last weekend and was impressed with the 700+ mile range on one tank (24ish gallons I believe).

Filled up with 91 octane at a Love’s truck stop in a random Oklahoma town and had to floor it getting back onto the highway to slot ahead of a big rig, which promptly resulted in a check engine light for lean fuel ratio. I assume it’s due to the car only getting 93 octane here in Texas and/or that the fuel quality was inferior.

I’ve been purposely driving the gas car more to rid it of the inferior gas, a discussion point absent in the EV world.

 

[TaycanCook]

Yesterday, my Taycan is still in the shop Almost 2 weeks now.

But it’s scheduled to come home on Monday!

Got you beat, 6 weeks now and it was for some minor issues!

 

[Jonathan S.]

[...] I’ve been purposely driving the gas car more to rid it of the inferior gas, a discussion point absent in the EV world.

You must have missed all the discussions about grid generation sources. Usually not a big deal since the electrons are swapped out over longer distances. But if, for example, I had bought my used CT in Kentucky, where the grid is 68% coal, and had it shipped to New England, which is 0.27% coal (yes, that's right, 0.27%, not 27%), then that would have caused all sorts of problems in my college town.

 

[Jrkennedy37]

You must have missed all the discussions about grid generation sources. Usually not a big deal since the electrons are swapped out over longer distances. But if, for example, I had bought my used CT in Kentucky, where the grid is 68% coal, and had it shipped to New England, which is 0.27% coal (yes, that's right, 0.27%, not 27%), then that would have caused all sorts of problems in my college town.

That’s very precise.

I had this discussion with a Chevy truck driver that took interest in my EV at the Paducah, KY EA station during a road trip last year (inadvertently boxing me in). His brother worked at the local coal plant and I leveled with him that all electrons are the same despite the source and that the electricity flowing into my car likely included contributions from the local coal plant. I later read EA sources fully renewable so my point may have been inaccurate but I felt as though I changed a mind - and possibly created an advocate - out of the conversation.

My experiences at gas stations 1x per month are typically much less eventful and thought provoking.

 

[Caraholic]

The savings on gas goes to the v8 gas guzzler

Nice have a very familiar set up. Fill up the yellow beast every week.

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