Petrol prices getting close to last year's record. What about your city or town?

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#2880809 8-Mar-2022 08:11

Still costing me $0 to charge my MG ZS EV electric car from the solar panels on my roof.

My wife has a 998cc VW UP! that is very efficient and gets 850km for a tank of premium petrol. She doesn't drive it much. It now costs her almost $100 to fill it But she wants an EV now. It's time.

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#2880816 8-Mar-2022 08:16

Linuxluver: Still costing me $0 to charge my MG ZS EV electric car from the solar panels on my roof.

That is of course excluding the capital cost of your set up. With the topic of this thread in mind, the payback period of the investment is reducing every day!

Just to be clear, I fully support and like the idea of running a car on sunshine.

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#2880823 8-Mar-2022 08:27

Dingbatt:
Linuxluver: Still costing me $0 to charge my MG ZS EV electric car from the solar panels on my roof.

That is of course excluding the capital cost of your set up. With the topic of this thread in mind, the payback period of the investment is reducing every day!

Just to be clear, I fully support and like the idea of running a car on sunshine.

My entire setup cost about the same as a fully specced Ford Ranger. Petrol vehicles aren't all Suzuki Inos.

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#2880844 8-Mar-2022 09:02

RobDickinson:

over 400 nissan leafs on trademe...

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/nissan/leaf

Looking at an old 30kwh one in Auckland - seems cheap. Looks to not be registered so I'm guessing they're going to register it and then use that to discount down to the advertised price.

The price of the 40kwh ones in Japan have spiked by about 20% in recent months.

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#2880847 8-Mar-2022 09:04

I think the name on the first registration gets the rebate?

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#2880853 8-Mar-2022 09:22

$140 to fill my Mazda 3 now (@ 285) and this was yesterday before they put it up to 297 - Z Invercargill!

12c Farmlands discount isn't as helpful as it used to be...

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#2880857 8-Mar-2022 09:26

Seem to be in a slightly cheaper area - Oamaru/Dunedin - 270 for 91 and 190 for diesel.

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#2880913 8-Mar-2022 09:43

Crazy prices in Johnsonville. These are before any of the Smart Fuel \ Pumped discounts

Z = 317.9

BP = 317.9

Waitomo = 274.9

Caltex Hutt Road = 286.7

I use the Pak n Save at Petone mostly, they're around 274.7, petrol in after a grocery shop.

Wellington is getting done over with prices....BP Fanshawe in Auckland is 314.9, BP Roadmaster in Wellington is 319.9

And Auckland supposedly has the regional tax in it as well!

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#2880918 8-Mar-2022 09:58

The folks in our society that can least afford the price of petrol certainly cannot afford to by an EV. So yet another poverty trap has been sprung.

It is why the smug EV superiority attitude annoys me considerably. An number of folks that I support that have my condition can’t afford to run their modified vehicles and can’t use public transport. I have helped some fill their tanks but can’t afford to do that long term.

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#2880919 8-Mar-2022 09:59

279 for 91 and 205 for diesel is the cheapest in Invercargill at the moment.

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#2880922 8-Mar-2022 10:00

RobDickinson:

I think the name on the first registration gets the rebate?

Yes, so given the price I'm assuming it's just shagged lmao.

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#2880925 8-Mar-2022 10:02

MikeB4: The folks in our society that can least afford the price of petrol certainly cannot afford to by an EV. So yet another poverty trap has been sprung.

It is why the smug EV superiority attitude annoys me considerably. An number of folks that I support that have my condition can’t afford to run their modified vehicles and can’t use public transport. I have helped some fill their tanks but can’t afford to do that long term.

Imagine the government providing rebates on used EVs and low fuel use/emission cars then....

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#2880929 8-Mar-2022 10:11

RobDickinson:
MikeB4: The folks in our society that can least afford the price of petrol certainly cannot afford to by an EV. So yet another poverty trap has been sprung.

It is why the smug EV superiority attitude annoys me considerably. An number of folks that I support that have my condition can’t afford to run their modified vehicles and can’t use public transport. I have helped some fill their tanks but can’t afford to do that long term.

Imagine the government providing rebates on used EVs and low fuel use/emission cars then....

Like I said those who can least afford the current price of petrol cannot afford to by an EV. or food, power, medical. That is the really outside the smug bubble.

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#2880932 8-Mar-2022 10:13

RobDickinson:

Imagine the government providing rebates on used EVs and low fuel use/emission cars then....

The dollar dropping has basically undone the work of the rebates since they were introduced, and most are now up by about the value of the rebate.

Meanwhile, the earnings you have to save from are getting stretched further and further by higher fuel costs boosted by the dropping value of of our dollar too.

So there's less left over to save for a car that is effectively no cheaper than it was.

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#2880949 8-Mar-2022 10:21

Government - helps

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