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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Electric or Hybrid Van
« Last post by Spruce on Today at 08:20:37 am »
Hi
IMO don't waste your money. Buy a conventional van. Ask Citroen about their Battery driven Berlingo's. Replacement batteries cost a fortune and their resale value is nothing. They don't even sell them anymore - a total disaster.
You still had a small fuel tank to supply the heater to keep the cab warm. If you forgot to put fuel in the tank it cost a fortune to bleed to fuel line to the fuel heater and clear the safety lock on Lexus - PSA's computer workshop system.
Look at the resale prices of a 3 year old Hybrid Honda car. Now compare it with diesel. We have a customer that manages 50mpg with his 1400 petrol Hybrid. The diesels do that anyway. The diesel and the hybrid cost about the same new, but resale value kills the deal for the Hybrid.
No matter how much Government support is for the electric car, it will die in a few years.
Spruce.

Some things never change  ;D

 ;D ;D ;D
I love it.

It's amazing how things change with time. 

Those first battery driven Berlingos were a total waste of money and very quickly disappeared from the market. They used lead acid batteries and had a 1 gallon diesel tank and a Webasto thermo top for heating.  Nobody filled the diesel tank so none of the vans had a working heater and windscreen demister.

Citroen came out with the idea that you bought the van but rented the batteries. That concept just didn't go down well with customers.

I'm not even sure lithium was around then.

Back  then we only had the old milk carts to compare with.  They were alright when then carts were new, but the packs of batteries soon became a charging nightmare back at the depot.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Electric vans
« Last post by Soupy on Today at 07:49:19 am »
EV market is for those able to charge from home which isn't for the majority of working families who street park. For this simple reason alone EV's will never be the first choice of many and without government trying their hardest to force us all to go electric it will never come to fruition .

To be fair if I didn't have places where I could charge an EV I wouldn't have one. Waking up every morning to a "full tank" is great.

Another issue I have is that charging at home is way cheaper than charging at work. There are no comparable business tariffs to the likes of octopus's 7.5p night rate.

https://octopus.energy/smart/intelligent-octopus-go

The night rate I have at work is something like 25p. Although this was signed up to during the big energy rip off. Still works out cheaper per mile than diesel though.

As Vin said, the charging network will improve.

Just look at Norway.

https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/getting-around/by-car/electric-cars/
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Electric vans
« Last post by Perfect Windows on Today at 06:39:28 am »
I guess they will have to ban petrol lawnmowers, strimmers and hedgecutters and of course petrol/diesel powered boats?

For the sake of argument let's assume that, for some genuinely valid reason, literally the only way to run a mower turned out to be petrol.

Would that be a good reason to draw the conclusion that CO2 emissions from motor vehicles should never be addressed?

Vin

PS Inland waterway boats (I own a share in one) are on the list. Date for ban on new diesel/petrol seems to keep changing but it's on its way.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Electric vans
« Last post by Perfect Windows on Today at 06:26:07 am »
Is charging across a pavement a problem that could never be solved?

I ask because the third response on Google to 'ev charging across pavement' gave me this: https://green-mole.co.uk/ev-charging-for-terraced-households/

Fourth: https://www.chargegully.com/

Fifth: https://www.kerbocharge.com/

I'm sure the list goes on. I'm also sure that in a vast, growing market like this there will be hundreds of suppliers and prices will plummet.

More importantly, you'd have to assume that human beings, who have the ingenuity to send rockets into space, invent Hull and create the marvel that is sticky toffee pudding  will throw their hands up and admit defeat when faced by by two metres of tarmac.*

Vin

PS, I'm already prepared for the possibility that the usual suspects will, by sheer chance, have surprisingly strong views on the look of pavements that they have previously kept to themselves.

* That already has electricity, water, gas, phone lines, fibre optic and sewage somehow getting across it.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Electric vans
« Last post by windowswashed on Today at 05:14:42 am »
EV market is for those able to charge from home which isn't for the majority of working families who street park. For this simple reason alone EV's will never be the first choice of many and without government trying their hardest to force us all to go electric it will never come to fruition .
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: scaffold tower
« Last post by Slacky on Today at 12:07:45 am »
Are you licensed? (comment from Slacky)
Not sure if this question is for me?
I dont currently have a PASMA certificate, but looking into it.
If we use a scaffold tower, i have a guy who helps me put it up, he's been using scaffold for years, so i'm sure hes deemed competent as they say.
We would only use a tower, not actual scaffold, generally low level for bungalows...

No it was directed at the Michael fella.
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General Cleaning Forum / Re: The 'What have you cleaned today?' Thread
« Last post by Smudger on Yesterday at 11:27:58 pm »
No I had a quote in for a huge F off complex - sides roofs the whole 9 yards - came in around 16k - but didn't get it drove past it couple of days ago to another one and some b@rstard has cleaned it  >:( ;D
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You will require different nozzle sizes for different LPM

if your sticking to 21 then you will need 03 nozzles
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: First commercial quote
« Last post by Slacky on Yesterday at 11:21:25 pm »
That's a result!
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: First commercial quote
« Last post by Russ Hawthorne on Yesterday at 10:55:29 pm »
Thanks all. I put in £180 and got the gig 👍🏻
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