$7K in fuel and servicing over 10,000KM? If a service was say $1,000 every 10,000KM (No idea what a Disco cost to service but my L322 cost $200 in oil and filters so adding $800 here for the dealers apprentices to change it) and using current fuel prices that’s around 33 litres per hundred KM. Even my 101 isn’t that bad.
If you said say 15 litre per 100KM (which is what my 5 tonne Sprinter does) that’s $2,700 in fuel @ $1.80 per litre so unless a service costs more than $4K a pop I’d respectfully suggest either the math is wrong or there’s something really wrong with the disco.
And fuel has been much cheaper than my calcs until recently.
And if you’re working out savings you’d need to factor in all cost associated with the EV like changing at charging stations, rego, etc as I’m assuming your math is working on EV versus driving the Disco as a daily and not having a second car.
Not trying to take away the enjoyment and everything else you get from it - I note there’s a new super charging station just opened in Warnambool and another in Horsham next week that you might be able to make use of on your trips, and a pile of others being installed as we speak so making those longer trips is becoming easier.
Here’s us running the charging station with a less clean power source for commissioning last week.
These chargers will pull over 600 amps from the mains when all in use at once - the 250KVA gen shown could only run one charger at a time going full tilt during testing to give you an idea of how much infrastructure needs to be put in and this is a small setup. It needs a new 22KV kiosk and LV switchboard installed on site to power it - just shy of a million dollars for these 3 chargers fully installed - no idea how they are supposed to make anyone any money personally.
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