The Island’s electric vehicle and green technology show, Going Electric, returns to Newport in just over a week’s time. The world is going electric. Electric vehicles can be bought for the same price as their conventional counterparts, heat pumps are becoming commonplace and solar panels provide a significant portion of the nation’s power. This transition is good for the environment and thanks to the incredibly low running costs, electric vehicles are also good for people’s pockets. If you are interested in getting on board then the 2024 Going Electric show is the place to be on Sunday 28th July, from 10:00-16:00, at Newport Quay and Riverside centre. The show is free to attend and features the Island’s biggest exhibition of electric cars from Mercedes, Ford, Kia, Hyundai, Renault, Mazda, Toyota, VW, Volvo, Citröen, Peugeot, MG, Skoda, GWM, Tesla and BYD, plus bikes, boats and energy saving technologies such as home solar, battery storage, heat pumps, EV charging systems, marine and off-grid installations from trusted local firms. Visitors will be able to test e-Bikes on site to get a feel for just how beneficial the addition of the small electric motors are for getting up hills! The Going Electric show also provides a platform for many local non-profits that are operating in the energy-saving sector, great for those seeking impartial energy advice. 
Lastly, in the exhibition area will be half a dozen local EV owners keen to share their experiences of having EVs on the Isle of Wight, a great way for those who are unsure of switching to electric to hear directly from drivers who have many tens of thousands of miles of electric miles under their belts. When visitors want to take a break from looking around the exhibition they can head into the main hall at the Riverside Centre where there will be 3x 1-hour-long lecture sessions, covering transport, home technology and sustainability, all kindly sponsored by Red Funnel. Disabled parking will be at the Riverside Centre. Free parking is available at the Seaclose car parks situated to the north, just a 5-minute walk away. Otherwise, parking for the show can be found in Newport. Tea, coffee and ice cream will be served within the show itself at the PC Consultants refreshment zone and the Riverside Café will be open throughout the event for light bites to eat. Going Electric 2024 is kindly supported by main sponsor Ridge Clean Energy and Power to Change – strengthening communities through community businesses. Full details of the event can be found at https://www.wightcommunityenergy.org/going-electric.
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Mantra “This transition is good for the environment and thanks to the incredibly low running costs, electric vehicles are also good for people’s pockets.”
Tell my boss who bought a Jaguar I-Pace 3 years ago and now can’t get shot of it. £50,000 depreciation in 3 years sort of negates any perceived cost savings and as for the environmental damage dragging the cars half way around the world on a diesel container ship to get them in the showrooms…
General Motors, VW group and other major manufacturers are investing billions into petrol engine research as they cut back on EV production and UK’s largest van fleet lease company has just taken delivery of thousands of diesel vans into their new fleet. EV the future? – My ‘rse
‘Electric vehicles can be bought for the same price as their conventional counterparts’ In what world are you living?
Excuse me but they are still around £10,000 more than the equivalent petrol models.
green technology
ahh yes… that would be the tech that is powered by batteries, which the minerals and metals needed were dug up in a far away land, using fossil fuel powered heavy plant machinery, then transported to processing plants using fossil fuel powered trucks, then processed in a factory powered by fossil fuels, then transported to the car manufacturer using fossil fuel powered vehicles. The electric car is built using the metals dug up using fossil fuel powered machinery, plastics derived from fossil fuels and after processing in a fossil fuel powered factory, shipped to the UK on a fossil fuel powered ship.
it is then driven on roads in the uk which are covered in tarmac/asphalt -which comes from oil
all green though
You most certainly cannot buy an electric car for the same price as the equivalent petrol one! Electric cars are hugely expensive and more and more manufacturers are pulling out of making them as they simply can’t sell them. Interest in them is dwindling fast now that the minority who want them have bought theirs. There is no interest from the second hand market for them, so people who have bought one are left with a valueless lemon that they can’t get rid of. Better to wait a couple of years and buy a hydrogen car instead, which is the real future.
Vauxhall E-Corsa £18k
Loads more coming to the market.
10% growth in EV sales this year, 30% for hybrids. 2% for petrol and -20 for diesel.
“The world is going electric.” Except that the world is not going electric. If that were even close to the truth, then “Electric vehicles can be bought for the same price as their conventional counterparts” would not be the case. The real reason EV prices are tumbling is because the public are not buying them in the numbers predicted by the “experts”. “When visitors want to take a break from looking around the exhibition they can head into the main hall at the Riverside Centre where there will be 3x 1-hour-long lecture sessions”. You might just as well have said when you are all bored to death, go and be bored some more. As for the ” half a dozen local EV owners keen to share their experiences”, what rewards will they be getting?
“Ridge Clean Energy and Power to Change – strengthening communities through community businesses” isn’t that the company who want to build solar panels next the the ancient woodland in Wootton? I thought I saw that most of the businesses in the area don’t want more solar panel fields around them. Seems the only community ridge clean want to strengthen is the business community, not the local community who clearly don’t want them there
The VW id Buzz in the photo is priced from £58,000 up to £64,000. According to What Car, in the real world you can expect between 180 – 230 miles on a full charge.
And, ‘It takes around eight hours and 15 minutes to charge the vehicle’s battery from empty to full’
I’d love to know who these are aimed at. £60k used to buy you a good, very good luxury car, but now, after going electric, it gets you a people carrier/camper van.
And, this is progress?
A question for you “you say free parking at Seaclose Park, I thought that car park was pay and display all year round unless the council have suspended the parking charges for the event, .are you able to confirm??
Free at weekends…
I would welcome an electric golf buggy-style vehicle in which to do local shopping, charged overnight at my house, but no way would I buy a distance car at these eye-watering prices. It takes a couple of minutes to fill up a petrol car. This cannot be beaten with electric vehicle charging. And what about small countryside petrol stations of which there are countless? They don’t have electric charging outlets. No no, the infrastructure overwhelmingly supports the petrol car. Eco fanatics and compliant politics will eventually impose electric cars on a resisting population in what used to be a democracy, but thankfully not in the remaining years I hope to be alive.
EV’s will only compete with petrol/diesel engine cars, when the tech reaches the point, where you can open a panel on the car, unclip the almost dead battery, replace it with your spare, located in the boot and then go to a former petrol garage, which will swap your dead battery for a new one, at a price – the garage will then charge up the other one and sell it to someone else.
Energy density is low in a battery which means they need to be large and heavy to supply the energy needed to propel a vehicle. There is no way that an EV battery can be whipped out at a garage and replaced as one would fill up with petrol. Even if high energy density technology is conceivable in a small exchangeable battery it won’t be a practical proposition for the next several lifetimes.
Boring! Ev,s ,as much character and charisma as a politician.
Much like the brainwashed fools signing up for them!
Nice to see people supporting slavery these days though, as much of the raw minerals needed for the battery’s are mined by hand using peasant children.
An uncomfortable truth. You’re welcome.
Says someone who probably drives an SUV boomermobile which actually do have zero charisma and character and, pretty much all look alike.
Some “boring” EVs for you:
McMurtry Speirling.
Rimac Nivera.
MG Cyberster.
Ford Supervan.
Lotus Evija.
Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo.
As for the ones that’ll be on display at this even? Most of them will p*ss all over whatever fat SUV you haul your massive around in.
Some “boring” facts for perspective…
McMurtry Speirling.- £1,000,000 pretty much a concept car
Rimac Nivera. – £3,000,000 concept car
MG Cyberster. – £60,000 base – one of China’s finest offerings if you want to really help the slave trade
Ford Supervan. – No price – concept car not available to the public
Lotus Evija. – £2,000,000 concept car
Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo – £90,000 at base model with depreciation like a lemming off a cliff
Give me £1,000,000 and I’ll knock up the worlds fastest milk float in the west and still have money left over to buy a nice, reliable ICE,,,
House! (Or Bingo) as the Ryde crowd shout when they win. All your numbers are correct and you have won a 1-hour-long lecture session, covering transport, home technology and sustainability, all kindly sponsored by Red Funnel, the ferry company that cannot even provide a ferry service!.
Your missing the point you moron! I drive a V8 that sounds amazing,unlike the piles of poo you have described. People go and watch F1 for the sound,as do rally cross etc. you would be happy watching milkfloats racing.
Wait for EVs number one fan Fred to comment on the oil barrons bla bla, this is the man that’s spent thousands turning his house into a power station, and then spent thousands more buying a glorified milk float that loses more value over night than a house in Ventnor, then claims it’s the best thing since sliced bread, so the right thing and don’t be a Fred!!
Why does IW Council in 2024 not care about the DAMAGE
being caused by Dirty Diesel and Polluting Petrol vehicles?????
Just WHICH Electric Vehicles can be bought for the same price as their conventional counterparts?
I know that (some) manufacturers are now offering purchase plans whereby the monthly payment is the same as a ‘conventional’ vehicle, but…it is over a longer period!
NOT the ‘sane’ price as a conventional vehicle is it?!
Vauxhall E-Corsa £18k
Be nice to actually find a charger on the IOW that even works or when it does, will it connect to any of the apps.
Four cars at price parity that you can charge on the driveway for 2p a mile driving.
Yes you have to shop around, but these are easy to find.
Vauxhall E Corsa.
Citroen C4
MG ZS.
Peugeot e-208
China make electric cars that are actually ‘affordable’ but of course they have to pay import duties which bring them up to the ‘silly’ prices of the ones available to wealthy people in this country.
I love my Tesla. Costs me £8 for 300+ miles. 0-60 in 2.9s. Currently no tax costs and cheap insurance and drives it self on the motorway. Couldn’t care less what people think. The people that B*tch and moan about EV’s either can’t afford one or has never driven one.