Howardh
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https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...vel-twice-far-5-charge-petrol-car-5-fuel.html
Totally unrealistic claptrap!! A car costs the purchase, insurance, servicing, MOT and tax before you even touch the tank, whereas a train has many off-peak value fares, such as Manchester to London for around £25 standard, so a fiver gets you a good 40 miles, so make that 60-odd on a railcard!!
Easybus/national Express can do Manchester-London for under £20. And no overheads!!
And with some airlines £19.99 (without bags etc) can get you over 1000 miles!! Not surprisingly the "research" was done by website carwow - which I have always found to be an excellent site.
Discuss!
Basically it's a test of cars (petrol and electric) compared to buses, trains etc. It says that trains will get you 20 miles compared to an electric car which gets you over 100 miles.How far can you travel on £5? You'll go twice the distance in an electric car than a petrol or diesel one - and way further than by bus or train, study says
- Study calculated the distance an average electric car can travel on a £5 charge
- It compared the distance to that of a petrol or diesel model with a fiver of fuel
- Using 10 major UK cities, it then averaged bus and train journeys covered using the same amount of money
- It worked out that electric vehicles would go at least 40 miles further than rivals
Totally unrealistic claptrap!! A car costs the purchase, insurance, servicing, MOT and tax before you even touch the tank, whereas a train has many off-peak value fares, such as Manchester to London for around £25 standard, so a fiver gets you a good 40 miles, so make that 60-odd on a railcard!!
Easybus/national Express can do Manchester-London for under £20. And no overheads!!
And with some airlines £19.99 (without bags etc) can get you over 1000 miles!! Not surprisingly the "research" was done by website carwow - which I have always found to be an excellent site.
Discuss!
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