[Rolebama]

There has been an advert for EV cars this week on the radio:
Drive from London to Sheffield for a fiver.
Followed by a disclaimer:
This depends on your tariff, car, and driving style.
Is this actually possible? If so, how long would it take?

[olduser]

London to Sheffield is listed at 167 miles.
Practical mileage on modern EV is said to be 3.5 miles/Kwh to 4.5 miles/Kwh.
Power consumed works out in the range - 48 Kwh to 32 Kwh

In practice you would not want to arrive with less than about 10% charge left, making our battery capacity around 51Kwh in the worst case or 36Kwh in the best.

So yes it should be feasible in a modern EV in mild weather conditions with batteries of at least the sizes mentioned above.

[Seal]

@Rolebama
Absolutely possible, the new Tesla saloon states 383 miles on a full charge, BYD Sealion 7 and Seal Saloon all state 350+ on a charge (Blade Technology) and the new MG which is called something else also boasts about its range of 300+ miles. Now having said that my own experience of the BYD Seal was that in perfect weather and road conditions I could easily do the Cotswolds-Chelmsford-Cotswolds run (153 miles each way) on a single charge (82.5kw) with a tiny amount of charge left. Could I do the same trip with poor weather and everything turned on ? Only with a fair wind, a great deal of luck and a lot of traffic on the M25, so no worries there, to facilitate regen from the brakes. Could I have done it for £5.00 🤔 Well even with a very cheap tariff I would have struggled to get a full charge at home for £5.00 And if I had needed to stop at a motorway recharging station on the return trip and if I chose to go for the fast charge option I can tell you that it would have cost me around £90 and all of that would rely upon all working, being available and nobody having sabotaged the charging system by cutting the charging cables off. Which is why I no longer have an electric car. My daily runner is a hybrid and whilst I’m very happy with it I shall get rid before the 2028 1.5 pence per mile charge comes in. And no I didn’t buy it to benefit from the ‘tax in kind’ scheme. I long ago retired and so do not have access to a company car scheme. That last bit is for Rachel Thieves benefit because she thinks everyone who buys an EV is trying to avoid paying taxes.