You'll nEVer beliEVe HOW MUCH IT COST to DRIVE to BENIDORM and BACK from the UK in my ELECTRIC CAR!
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- You'll nEVer beliEVe HOW MUCH IT COST to DRIVE to BENIDORM and BACK from the UK in my ELECTRIC CAR! A complete breakdown of costs from The Ferry crossings, toll roads, hotels, Electric Car Charging to the coffee and food whilst waiting for the EV to charge. I was SHOCKED when I worked out all the costs.
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€193 in service stations 😳
I’m a bit behind in my upload schedule but it’ll be very interesting to compare these costs, especially as we got the longer (easier) ferry from Santander.
Hopefully it’ll be on my channel after the Le Mans car prep. Are we leaving tomorrow? My car still isn’t ready 😂
It’s his kitkat addiction
I had a 10 day holiday with jet2 in Tenerife for less than that !
If I'm ever fortunate enough to win the lottery and buy myself a Taycan, I won't need to be shown how to charge up the car. After all, I've watched Lee do it a zillion times!
Buy the Mac masters car off him in 12 months 🤔you’ll get it for £12.50 🤣
@@Classiccrazyuk That's £12.50, plus the cost of the replacement battery that will be needed a week after the warranty runs out.
$12.50 car +$60.00 batteries ……. $72.50 …… 🤢
If I won the lottery I might trade in my 2011 Honda for a newer one. Maybe an Acura or a Lexus… unless recent models are rubbish. Not hybrid, certainly not EV.
@@Classiccrazyukyou can't buy a lease car 😁
I think The old TV series Catweazle had the right name for Ev power, electrickery.
One of very few youtuber honest enough about electric vehicles!!
Coach from Manchester to Benidorm by euro lines is £ 220 and meals inc
€2179.80!!!! And it doesn't even take in to consideration the further depreciation of your set of batteries on wheels.
or the wheels and tyres!
EV car batteries will barely degrade at all in the lifetime of the car with modern ones. Tyre wear is very similar to petrol/diesel cars. Don't forget, you never need to change the oil, replace a head gasket, or fix any one of a dozen ICE issues, so deduct those.
We drive to Southern Italy, but always minimise France by hitting Belgium as soon as possible - so we only pay about 10 euros each way for a little bit of France; the annual Swiss motorway vignette, and about 80 euros each way in Italy.
100 euros a night (ish) is about right for many transit hotels.
Fuel is a bit of a lottery - Luxembourg is the cheapest in Europe, so try to get a fill each way; but petrol is significantly more than diesel over there.....
Wasn't there also the added cost of whatever it was you had stuck on the inside of your windscreen to activate the barriers at the French motorway tolls?
I did make a comment about the reason locals did not use the motorway toll roads in France, I have seen the same in Norway.
I live in France, locals don’t use tolls for local travel but do use them for long distances. France is a big country.
I went to Benidorm the same week. Drove to Manchester Airport and parked for a week. Flights, transfers and hotel. Coffees, drinks, snacks and meals. Transfer to airport, flight home and the petrol to airport and back... Just shy of £650 for everything. Safe to say I'll stick to flying..... While we are still allowed lol
Unless you want/need a car at the other end. Then you work out your options!
In southern Italy you sometimes book a cat, then find there isn’t one when you get there…. Lamezia Terme used to be bad for this.
Don’t know if Spain is better.
I think 2000 miles on expensive tyres that only do 10,000 miles might be a hidden cost? Or maybe not?
Now you know why we Bikers tuck up behind the big trucks and dash under the barriers instead of paying on the Froggie motorways.
Lee old boy I’m getting rid of the electric car and buying a petrol one in October cannot wait 😊👍
Not the ‘watch me charge my ev ‘ again !
That amount converts to $2,347 U.S. dollars. I could fly to Hawaii and spend a week for that much. I live in Washington State.
I'm a toll collector in New Jersey, and I thought we were robbing people. France is rolling and ramming you guys, no Vaseline. Also, for 288 dollars, I can go from new Jersey to California in my petrol car.
Lee. If you are happy to pay 21 quid for a hot dog and chips with no qualms you can pay pay pay for your economical lectric milk float and be happy? I worked the milk floats (Express Dairies) and we sold a miniature version of you in a bottle…… “Gold Top!”
The reason the charging was good in France was because you were paying 325 pounds in road tolls.
I've just been to Lanzarote for 2 weeks. Private villa, flights, car park at East Midlands airport and hire car for 2 weeks in lanzarote for £1800...blood and sand!
The motorist is such an easy target to fleece. On and on and more and more it goes Lee.
I travelled down to Spain in my wife's Lexus IS 300h hybrid 2.5l. A 1200 mile journey, 2400 mile round trip. £1.41@ 66 litres = £93 = £253 @ 880miles a tank!
Yours, so you say, was £363.11 = £110 cheaper in her 2016 motor!
I'm not going to confuse the issue of tolls because it doesn't matter what type of engine you have or don't have, you still pay the toll!
If you are only allowed 2 hours on that car-park, and you have to queue for an hour or more to just get TO the charger, because your battery is empty, thus needing say an hour to charge - do you still get fined for stopping, even though it was out of your control? Or do you have to leave part-charged, and go somewhere else to finish off?
We really do take flying for granted. I flew to Alicante a couple of months ago for £55 return.
“If you’re disabled you’ll have problems putting this (the charge cable) in”…….. makes you wonder why “Motability” are pushing EV’s then 🤔
Because due to corporate fleet emissions targets they have to. Blame the government. Motab should be exempt from this.
Isn't it reasonable to think that if someone has a car through Motability they won't be driving to Benidorm that often, or Lands end to John o' Groats. Quite likely they will be charging at home which will not have that same 'heavy' cable? At least they can avoid the time spent at a petrol station...
Not all disabilities are physical in a way that would hinder the use of ev chargers though 😎
Here in Australia you don’t have to pay car park fines as they don’t have the authority to fine you. I’m sure it must be same in UK.
It’s been a few years, but we used to drive from Calais to Disneyland Paris when the kids were smaller. On the toll roads it was around €35 each way, and the 200 ish miles took around 4 hours. We often took the French national roads on the return journey and whilst it took an extra 45 - 60 mins the distance was pretty much the same, but our MPG (Mondeo diesel back then) was also better away from the toll roads.
We had far nicer (and cheaper) food in smaller town cafes, and saved around €50 on tolls and fuel, all for the sake of an extra hour at most.
£55 for 207 miles of range on the Instavolt charger! I pay less than that for 300 miles of range with my petrol car. I just don't get EVs, I really don't.
For 207 miles it costs my around £10.50 on my Tesla model 3
@@georgerichardson964 Interesting. So how is it so much cheaper?
Just try driving one, staggeringly quick, silent, brilliant to drive. That's Tesla of course, waste of money buying any other EV while the charging infrastructure is so crap.
Westminster Council made 140 million in parking charges last year that's excluding what the private companies made
Made? Stolen from the public using their own roads.
I remember when we went out we took a bottle of pop to go with our home-made sandwiches
i still do !!!!
Hi Lee,I agree parking companies do rip motorists off.
My brother parked in Iceland car park got £85 fine parking more than one hour there was a notice but parking time was in tiny lettering absolutely shameful on parking companies.
Reckon all in cost about £2000.👍
There’s basically dual carriageways that run along the toll motorways that are free.. and it’s just as quick to get from a to b
And there we have it. Everyone was slagging off Britain and brexit but it's not all sweetness & roses in the EU after all, is it?
Brexit is a total lie & fuck up of our economy. Otherwise our party leaders would be celebrating. But instead they are mute. We can smell the stink of lies & failure. Check your weekly shop. It's up by 30% on two years ago. If you think things are OK in the UK, you need help!
The only ones slagging off Brexit are those living in EU, paying zero tax in UK. New EuroIDs for all soon for the taxmen.
It was bloody expensive to drive the French tolls during the 80s.
Why would you buy drinks & snacks at servos? Stop at a supermarket and stock up for the trip
55 quid for 207 miles!? Sheesh... I got 1700 miles on £218 in my 20 year old 2.7 S type, I'm sticking with diesel!
Just for balance, charging my EV at home costs £5 for 200 miles (or £42 compared to your £218)
@@GeoffSlack How much did your EV cost you ? You can buy a 20 year old S type for £800.
@@GeoffSlacksame here
Great car top gear said if you want a diesel get a s type.
@@Utopian_Turtletop-vn1iu Really!? Great argument Mr Turtle, not really sure what your point is but it'll still cost you 5x as much per mile 🤣
You bring up a valid point about refueling and recharging, I mean you're waiting at least half an hour providing the charger doesn't have a fit so of course you're gonna do something during that time. When my car lands from garage I'll get back into the swing of paying for petrol (which takes maybe 3 minutes tops ignoring queing) and I'll buy a monster and sandwich. Making my average cost about £25-£30? Funny how we all have s ritual isn't it? I always buy a bottle of Lucozade when I get my old car that was for its MOT pass or fail (ironically the first time my old car failed was on its dying day).
Ignoring the limitations of range and charge time, that £55 from what I assume would be the equivalent of about quarter tank left is cheaper for sure. But this is ignoring time spent at the charger and more if (when) it throws a fit.
Good grief that toll road cost. Never been on one and I don't plan to try it now. I'll suffer the traffic thanks. Can look at other cars and laugh at the funny number plates while cursing the traffic light sensors.
10 days last Aug LBA to Benidorm Jet2, my wife, 2 daughters and myself in the centre of Benidorm with flights and transfers, £1780, I have driven it a few times in a car when I lived in Altea la Vieja back in 03/04, and many many times in a lorry, the last time I did it in a car it cost me less than £450 in fuel and ferries, nationals all the way, far better scenery and places to eat.
Great videos mate, we're off to Tenerife, Los Cristianos in just under 5 weeks
Drove from Shropshire to Switzerland in a BMW 330D MHEV Touring (fully loaded with bike rack) - half a tank of diesel!
750ish miles on half a tank - 30 litres? Is that something like 110 mpg? Mighty impressive ;p
Sorry my bad, Luxembourg, we topped up from half a tank in Luxembourg 🙄 still not bad.
@@nikocitroen Indeed, very impressive - those big diesels are fantastic motorway cruisers and definitely the right vehicle for these long journeys 👍
That’s 1400 quid more than I paid to go to Benidorm for 11 nights in May including meet n greet at airport. That’s another holiday
I knew those empty roads would cost you, toll roads are there to make money not to move volumes of traffic. The high priced Coffee is a joke but everybody seems to be hooked on it, So many say they cant function without a coffee when they start the day, you never heard that 40 years ago.
It's so trendy to have a coffee in your hand, whatever you do!
@@fluxington It's all the brainwashed sheep. If social media told them it was trendy to shit on the living room carpet they'd all start doing it.
Ah progress! Gone are the happy and carefree days when you filled up the Morris Minor, threw the picnic hamper in and headed to Weston- Super-Mare in the hope the tide was in, stopping in a lay by to eat an egg and cress sandwich etc.
When was the last time you saw a familly picnicking by the road side? Hehe.
Years ago I used to drive across France from England to go skinning in the alps each year.
And we would take it in turns at the wheel and drive through almost non stop.
One year I went with a load of people who insisted on getting a hotel at Dijon over night, drive from Calais to Dijon, then the next day drive up the mountains.
[as far as I was concerned it was a waste of money, it was a day less of Sking time and cost you more for the journey]
When I go to Northern Ireland I need the shortest ferry crossing, so drive up to Cainryan from not far away where you’re based. I don’t let my tank drop below half full…because I drive through the night (lone female) so I need to know I’ve always got plenty of fuel so I’ll stop a couple of times on the way there and coming back. The return ferry crossing for my van, plus fuel to and from Cainryan, and around Ireland is around £500. Often I stay in my van with the awning on, occasionally in hotels although that significantly puts the cost up. But the coffees etc…I’ll stop to fill up and often have a coffee while I’m there, stretch my legs etc. I think on longer journeys it’s just something we do isn’t it.
Stopping every couple of hours driving on UK roads is highly recommended for safety and tiredness reasons. Well done you.
I took my little car on a 2300 mile trip a few months ago and spent about $260 on gas.
My week's all inclusive holiday in mallorca was just over £500 😅
I did a little research. Mack's costs in GBP at an exchange rate of 0.85 is £1852.86. A return flight from Birmingham Airport to Alicante, return drive to the airport, airport parking and a hire car from alicante for 1 week would total £1493.87. A saving of £358.99. Not to mention the time of the flight at 2 hours 40 minutes each way.
You say you can obviously get a flight there and back for a fraction of the price, but the traveling there and back by road is all part of the holiday experience in my opinion. You get to see a lot more than you do 35,000ft in the sky.
EasyJet return 150 gbp return !!!!
i thought with electric cars the french motorways are paved with gold? The tolls are stunning. Get ready for this everywhere.
When my wife and I travel from South Yorkshire to the south of France driving works out as the cheapest option mainly because a) there are two of us so the cost is the same as for one person; b) we go for 2-3 weeks so don't need to hire a car for that time. Last time it worked out as £95 charging, £85 tolls, £150 Eurotunnel and £40 hotel on outward leg, ie £700 return for a trip of just under 1000 miles each way. Car hire alone wouldn't be far off that. The main negative is the additional time spent travelling, although by setting off on Friday afternoon we arrive Saturday afternoon earlier than we would flying plus we can more or less set our own schedule. Also our journey would involve an hour's drive at each end to/from the airport, cost of airport parking, possibly having unsociable flight times etc etc. For us the pattern of driving for 2-2.5 hours then charging for 20 mins to 80-90%, plus a charge overnight and whilst waiting for the Eurotunnel means we don't find the charging time really amounts to anything if you charge when stopped for comfort breaks, lunch, supermarket shop etc.
I've just done 4 weeks all inclusive in Egypt 5* hotel for 2 people for £2300 + parking £120 fuel £45 so poke that Benidorm miles to expensive 😮😊
You could have gone to Antigua for two weeks for that all inclusive at jolly Beach.
I regularly do from Zurich to England (2400 km) and it costs around 800 including tolls and the boat both ways. We have a diesel V class bus.
In terms of coffees at charging, it's not often on a long drive you wouldn't grab some refreshment even filling with fuel. Make your own in a thermos, also it's a great opportunity to exercise instead, or watch a Netflix.
Exactly my point in your other videos,
They are privately owned toll roads where the French refuse to pay to use them.
So they have loads of money to keep up with the maintenance and are half empty because the locals won’t go on them.
the only English road you could compare them to is the toll motorway past birmingham.
I think you’ll find, people are stealing Tesla charging cables, because of the copper inside. Maybe a new way for Lee to make the money he needs to pay off his debt on the car.
EVs are heaven sent for coffee outlets !
You could have flown London to Auckland NZ (opposite side of the world) faster and cheaper.
When we drove to Benidorm we took the side roads to miss the tolls,it was a lot nicer drive
I'm on an 11 day holiday with my family to France in our 2010 BMW 330D. We probably won't go on any toll roads. Total fuel cost as far south as Avignon, plus various day trips in the Ardeche region will come to about 250 euros. Our lovely gite was 400 euros for the week. plus 3 nights in hotels for 300 euros. Return ferry was £164.
Driving to Benidorm was a brainstorm in the first place.
The toll roads in France were already a rip off in the 80s.
All those extra £5 coffees, the MaccyDs and the Krispy Kremes make the Tosserla thermos flasks and cucumber sandwhiches with the crusts cut off start to look head turning.
We used to go to Andalusia by camper and/or car every year in the ‘80s and ‘90s. and avoided toll roads all the time. The camper at 30 mpg was quite expensive enuf add on tolls and it made yr eyes water. With the car it was better on cost fuel wise, but whatever you could save was money you could spend on your vacation.
Was this including the cost to get to dover from nottingham and the meal on the ferry and the journey hotel meals ??
And 776 for 7 nights 😮 im paying 1200 for six of us for 8 nights in july on the promenade 😂❤
Here my dealer was straightforward wrt EV costs. Basically, he said if I use public charging, the car would cost me more and be uneconomical “fuel-wise”. He’s correct. Public charging is 3-4 x’s more expensive than rates at home and harsh on battery life to boot. Since I had already put in a level 2 charger at home, I had no concerns. We have 3 vehicles, 2 ICE and now one EV. EV is for around town driving and is fun. ICE is for long trips and hauling stuff. Don’t sell your ICE for an EV if you can only afford one car. The technology isn’t quite there yet.
The mass charging infrastructure isn't there yet...unless you own a Tesla, no problems.
Always avoid the Toll roads in France myself. There are a number of good toll free autoroutes such as the A75 and as you stayed at a Hotel in Millau, you should have avoided the toll for the bridge. It's a lot slower using the N roads and the bits of toll free autoroutes to get to Spain (probably 3 - 4 hours longer), but not only do you save that 300 Euros, the journey is more interesting and your fuelling stops are much cheaper off the toll roads. Probably the same for EV charging?
It used to work out cheaper per person when I used to drive to Spain 6 in a 7 seater car .flights and big car hire mid summer was to expensive. Just 1 in a car off peak . Way cheaper to flights and cheap car hire . Car parks in the uk services stations are a stressful nightmare not rest point anymore . Not legally required to have number plate on privet land car parks . I occasionally taken them off
As I keep saying I travel from Malaga to Sheffield twice a year, the last time we added up the cost of getting through France for three people and a dog staying in a hotel 2 nights. It was ----------- 870 e one way so we decided to try the Bilbao to Portsmouth ferry and guess what it cost £1400 both ways and it was great two relaxing days
That's $3220 Canadian dollars. Could have flown there from here for that price. Blimey indeed!
Wow £55 for just over 200 miles , i live 100km from Benidorm and im getting 630 miles for £42 in my Peugeot 206 diesel.
Saw someone driving a Porsche Taycan in my area yesterday.....after watching several of your videos, all that I could do was point and laugh!
MIssed off information: total miles (or km) travelled, and time spent charging at each charge stop. I'd want this time cost factored in. Any trip has costs, and these are hidden.
Look at DFDS flexi tickets for much lower cost and total flexibility to arrive at Calais at any time within a 72hour window of your booking slot. We do fixed slot tunnel out, and dfds flexi ferry back.
Just so you know, sometimes parking companies are given control of car parks to stop people parking altogether, as it’s really hard to enforce “please do not park here” notices, even if you put “private car park“.
Just the charging alone to Spain and back is enough to buy 4 full tanks of diesel. Enough for 2,500 miles.
Why go on the ferry as the tunnel is cheaper ?
PLUS! The few thousand extra miles you've done over your lease agreement which will have depreciated your car even more.
Very valuable lesson for all of us. No such thing as a free Lunch.
This will be a ramble.
When i holidayed in France over many years driving to the destination was part of the holiday. So toll roads were kept to a minimum only for bypassing places like Orleans for example.
The Route Nationale is pretty good. The skill is avoiding routes used by HGVs who also avoid motorways. Doing sections used by HVGs on a Sunday is a good plan. But if you're doing a comparison study with Geoff then my relaxed driving isn't an option. No stopping off to look at an interesting building or monument. Getting somewhere fast and spending a fortnight on a beach, drinking beer and eating all day English breakfast wasn't my idea of a holiday.
Before Net Zero the cost of fuel in France were considerably lower than in the UK. Making overall motorway costs similar to the UK. Now you are hit with both.
So your experience was interesting but the trip wasn't something I'd contemplate. Once the French put charging stations in car parks for historic buildings then 😄🏰
£55 for 200 miles!!! About the same as fueling a 911 at 28 mpg.🙂
I'd still rather drive than fly some low budget airline. Easyjet, Ryanair etc you can keep em. Am planning to drive to Icmeler in Southern Turkey for our next long one. Either in the 2005 Rover 75 Tourer diesel (Cybil) or our old 2003 Suzuki Wagon R+ (Vivian)
I don't get how it's not a breach of data protection laws that the DVLA actually give these parking companies your personal information
My trip from Portsmouth to Vinaros in the Spanish Med was no where near that expensive. We did an overnight in France and road tripped along the west coast (bit of surfing on route) to Zaragoza in Spain to catch up with family then next day on to Vinaros. Avoided most tolls- my wife is Spanish so have better knowledge travelling through Spain- used mainly Tesla super chargers in our MG4 electric with two free overnight charges and stopped in towns for food and drinks so €1.50 average for coffee. We stopped for charging top ups and comfort breaks at the same places for the same time as we have in previous ice vehicles on this road trip. Electric costs were €128 out and €155 back 888 miles out and 923 back. Can’t remember the cost of the few tolls as the wife paid.
We were averaging 4.2 miles per kWh out and 4 back.
1.50 for coffe in spain??!! man you got robbed by payng so expensive coffe what normally cost 90 cents
Our Vivaro with the emissions light on (5 years) ! cost 75.00 euros in diesel Santander to Malaga, hotel cost about 100 in Parador. Wont be going again via Spain as ferry cost now in 1000s. You can keep your Porshe EV, who needs the dangerous stress of running out of electric in the hills and mountains of Spain.
Get yourself an EV with a uilt in 16 amp 3 pin plug (like our hyundai kona) take a kettle and a plug in cool box and the money you save on service way snaxs more than off sets the bit of extra electric it uses.
Drive smarter not Dummer.
Had to go to or through France when working and because I had to take training materials often had to drive. So I knew how the cost of French Tolls and crap food can mount up. So when taking a couple of holidays to the very of south of France, we never touched a motorway going or returning. We took 2 - 3 lazy days each way as part of the holiday. We saw some lovely towns and villages with time to stop and explore ate some lovely French but simple food and I have never had a road trip any more enjoyable or memorable. Remember stopping in a lovely black and white small town off the beaten track overlooked by a beautiful chateau. We bought a lump of cheese some Pate, grapes, a smelly spicey sausage of some kind and a Baguette. An Apple Tarte Tatin for puddin and of course a Bottle of plonk, oh! and a tub of 'Président' Butter. Spread the picnic blanket in a shady road side clearing, (it was forest all around) not much traffic a few French lorry drivers hung out of their cabs laughing and shouting 'Bona appétite' with a wave as they passed. Very pleasant and memorable journeys and didn't pay a cent on tolls.
Last summer we went through France from germany to Marseille, we didn't pay any tollroads.
We went down to Millau, didn't use the bridge.
Ouch! I did say I bimbled on the scenic route through France. I took my camper van the slow but cheap route.
can you post the subsidy difference when you get a chance? be interesting to see the cost to non subsidised vehicles.
Travelling solo in a car to Europe isn't cost effective. If you had a family of 5 and a return from Benidorm cost less than £500 in travel then that's not bad. I don't think food should be included as you eat when your hungry regardless of what your doing.
And if you did fly, how much would a Porsche Taycan cost to hire for the week?
Think Geoff got it right by catching the ferry from Santander, a floating hotel and pub and zero driving for the day.
Fantastic Video. Well Done.
Sacre Bleu - it is the MacMaster ! Charge him double .
EVangelists would have a tartan rug some crustless cucumber sandwiches and a flask of coffee whilst they are charging
Some things in life you can't put a real price on.
For a once in a life time experience,probably on the whole worth it.
Watching Geoff and you to me was priceless.
The one thing to take away from this is;
You don't realise what you've got in your own backyard until you go into somebody else,s front garden.
Yes, you only get one chance in a lifetime to put your back out while urinating into a bottle on the back seat of a Porsche on the Paris ring road.
Costs do not include tyres (more than one may think), brakes(not much) maintenance (pOrsche anyone) etc and depreciation (gulp), which could be pro rata'd by milage. Probably another £1k on there.
The current exchange rate is 1.17 Euros to the pound. Leaving out the hotel in Benidorm, which you would pay for anyway if you flew there, the total came to £1,200, which is just ludicrous compared to the air fare, which would be without stress and an arrival in 2 hours instead of 2 days. It really is no contest, although you did see some nice scenery, which you wouldn't see in the plane.
I wouldn't describe air travel as being stress free.
If there would been 4 people in the car, it would only be 300€ each, also try to use other roads without toll, many times there is near by road you can drive for free.
I knew the toll roads were expensive but not that expensiv .so i never used them ,and they took you through Paris .
the ordenary express routs are preety god and no charge.
If you want the journey - drive. If you want the destination- fly. 🤷. Did through France and into Spain on my motorcycle last year. Only used one short toll road (just to go over the Millau bridge) but the journey was our priority.
@David W: Did the same journey, I have laid out in another post below but by Motorbike, 2up, Tent, Panniers and tank bag.
Stopped at Cambrils Beach for an over nighter but luckily met an HA, who gave us free tickets, after I offered him help and Water, to the Viva Las Vagas Rally for the weekend.
Honda VF 750c Magna V4 1996.
EV fanbois always come out with things like "I charge my EV from my solar panels". They never mention how many solar panels they actually have or all the cloudy weather each year when solar panels make no energy.
And they won't tell you how much the panels cost, about £50k for a setup capable of producing 50kwh to charge an ev! But they say they charge for free🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If the panels last 25 years it's £2000/yr
and this year the global warming hasn't really been a thing and cloudy skies have been Very common! So they will still be paying through the nose for eon or EDF shareholders slush funds!
We have a villa in Paphos Cyprus and we went for 3 weeks last december and febuary for 3 weeks again we got flights with Ryanair £25 each each_way so me and my partner got return travel Newcastle to Paphos for around £100. .i reckon it would have cost more to send a parcel ok we would have paid more nearer the summer but we dont like it too hot so out of season does us fine. . mind you we also have water rates to pay plus electricity and council tax and car hire which is not cheap then food and drink yes lots of bills tp pay when you add it all up .that's why we dont go in school holiday time
Hope Geoff Buys Cars does a breakdown of his costs. We know he spent a lot more on petrol and presumably his toll road charges for the outward leg are the same, however, he drove from Benidorm to Santander to get home and therefore didn't incur any French toll road costs. Driving to Santander was, I believe, 900kms whereas Lee's route back to Calais was 1300kms which effectively doubled the tolls. How much was the cost of the ferry from Santander?