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Well that write up would suggests it's getting Android Automotive like the Raval at the minute. Powered by Android Automotive.
Perhaps I should mention my current pet subject. On Skoda and VW Android Automotive gets the inbuilt navigation hybrid map toggle. Shows a Google map type aeriel image with the road on it. You can toggle that feature on and off. Its not on the Raval implementation... my conversations with @jezyg ... whether it is just subject to aligning the software releases on the series 6 or whether it will ever arrive. Pass.
Just hybrid images are bigger than regular images so was wondering how they were doing it. So was wondering how they catered for that. A much bigger memory store capable of holding all of Europe or pull down as required. It does an element of that at the minute on the mib3 system but not hybrid image photos with the road overlayed.
Perhaps I should mention my current pet subject. On Skoda and VW Android Automotive gets the inbuilt navigation hybrid map toggle. Shows a Google map type aeriel image with the road on it. You can toggle that feature on and off. Its not on the Raval implementation... my conversations with @jezyg ... whether it is just subject to aligning the software releases on the series 6 or whether it will ever arrive. Pass.
Just hybrid images are bigger than regular images so was wondering how they were doing it. So was wondering how they catered for that. A much bigger memory store capable of holding all of Europe or pull down as required. It does an element of that at the minute on the mib3 system but not hybrid image photos with the road overlayed.
I think the £40k threshold for the additional supplementary VED (previously known as luxury tax) increased to £50k for EV’s from April last year.
According to Parkers it did
Electric cars that cost £40,000 or more when new became subject to luxury car tax on 1 April 2025, applying to ones registered after that date. But Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her Budget of November 2025 that the threshold will be increased to £50,000 on 1 April 2026. The increase is also backdated to encompass all electric cars registered from 1 April 2025, so if you bought one since then that cost between £40,000 and £49,999 you won’t have to pay luxury car tax, after all.
www.parkers.co.uk
What you mean Reeves did something useful.
Very out of character .
Parkers have done a bit of a cut and paste job on their old article with the new rules that came in so it doesn't read too well, but that is it. Web site link provided for anyone unsure in that article.
Electric cars that cost £40,000 or more when new became subject to luxury car tax on 1 April 2025, applying to ones registered after that date. But Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her Budget of November 2025 that the threshold will be increased to £50,000 on 1 April 2026. The increase is also backdated to encompass all electric cars registered from 1 April 2025, so if you bought one since then that cost between £40,000 and £49,999 you won’t have to pay luxury car tax, after all.
Luxury car tax UK explained: How the updated £50k rule works
Buying a new car over £50,000? You’ll pay extra each year in luxury car tax – we explain the rules, costs and how to keep your bill down
www.parkers.co.uk
What you mean Reeves did something useful.
Very out of character .Parkers have done a bit of a cut and paste job on their old article with the new rules that came in so it doesn't read too well, but that is it. Web site link provided for anyone unsure in that article.
The "strange" move by the ex-chancellor may be due to the introduction of "pay per mile" tax on EVs and PHEVs in the coming years....According to Parkers it did
Electric cars that cost £40,000 or more when new became subject to luxury car tax on 1 April 2025, applying to ones registered after that date. But Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her Budget of November 2025 that the threshold will be increased to £50,000 on 1 April 2026. The increase is also backdated to encompass all electric cars registered from 1 April 2025, so if you bought one since then that cost between £40,000 and £49,999 you won’t have to pay luxury car tax, after all.
Luxury car tax UK explained: How the updated £50k rule works
Buying a new car over £50,000? You’ll pay extra each year in luxury car tax – we explain the rules, costs and how to keep your bill down
What you mean Reeves did something useful.
Parkers have done a bit of a cut and paste job on their old article with the new rules that came in so it doesn't read too well, but that is it. Web site link provided for anyone unsure in that article.
Still no urge for an EV or PHEV as it is too expensive to charge if you don't have your own charging pod at home or work. We have public charging pod in the underground carpark (I live in flat) which costs 35p per kWh
. Inconvenience in long road trips (expensive fast charge stations and long queue for charging especially at motorway services) also deter lots of potential EV buyers.I rent Ford Transit EV twice last year for moving home, the fast charging facility at Beaconsfield service cost around 84p per kWh at that time, and always a long queue for that. Also EVs are so thirsty at 60mph+ that you might think driving an EA888 at £2/L would still be a bargain.....
On contrary, I rent a Golf Mk8.5 PHEV (1.4) last October in Edinburgh, slow-charged it once in a remote public carpark at Kyle of Lochaish (a village being the last stop before going to Isle of Skye) using my debit card, somehow no money got debited from my bank account so far
. A tourist failed to charge his rented BYD EV at the same spot, probably due to the charging station not accepting foreign bank cards (but we were not sure).
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Problem was, what a luxury was, it got devalued.
You do get the best deal with a home charger. I think the commercial charging station costs are equivalent to petrol. So you dont save anything. British expensive electricity leads to high costs in comparison to Europe then you got the business costs of operating commercial chargers, infrastructure etc. As for heat pumps over gas and oil... . Expensive electricity makes it no cheaper but greener. Failure of British planning of electricity production, distribution and storage. Bit like ater....
You do get the best deal with a home charger. I think the commercial charging station costs are equivalent to petrol. So you dont save anything. British expensive electricity leads to high costs in comparison to Europe then you got the business costs of operating commercial chargers, infrastructure etc. As for heat pumps over gas and oil...
. Expensive electricity makes it no cheaper but greener. Failure of British planning of electricity production, distribution and storage. Bit like ater....
