Scottish Elises

Hello All,
Looking for some feedback/input
Got a mate who’s an engineer about to start work on an EV sports car. He’s looking to get a view from those with a Lotus or other sports car on the following


1. How many miles do you drive per year
2. What is the approx distribution of usage between urban/country/motorway by %
3. Where do you store/park the car
4. How many miles : laps of track days do you do

Thanks

jamie wrote:Hello All,
Looking for some feedback/input
Got a mate who’s an engineer about to start work on an EV sports car. He’s looking to get a view from those with a Lotus or other sports car on the following


1. How many miles do you drive per year
2. What is the approx distribution of usage between urban/country/motorway by %
3. Where do you store/park the car
4. How many miles : laps of track days do you do

Thanks

1. 5000
2. Urban negligible, country 80%, mway 20%
3. Garage at home
4. Varies wildly year to year, maybe 200, sometimes zero, sometimes more

Hope that helps!

1. 4000
2. Urban 5%, Country 80%, M/way 15%
3. Garage at home
4. Average 300 miles / laps

Not Lotus (TVR Cerbera)

1. 3000
2. Urban 15%, Country 70%, M/way 15%
3. Garage at home
4. No track use

1. 2-3k
2. Urban 5, country 90, Mway, 5
3. Garage
4. On track as many as I can before brakes, tyres, fuel or talent runs out, on a blast on road 50-300+ miles.

Two answers:
1. 4000
2. Urban 5%, Country 45%, M/way 50%
3. Garage at home
4. Average 3-400 track miles / laps...then straight into additional 6 hr motorway schlep home

1. 8000
2. Urban 15%, Country 35%, M/way 50%
3. Garage at home
4. Average 30 miles / day...very occasionally 300

1. 4500
2. Urban 15% Country 70% Mway 15%
3. garage
4. don't track

1. 7k p.a
2. Spilt equally over urban/ country / motorway
3.partial covered under car port at home
4. None now

1. 500 miles pa (yes its a garage queen)
2. Urban 10%, Country 80%, Motorway 10%
3. Garaged
4. Don't track

WTF, George? That's practically a trip to MOT it and then back home

1. 10,000
2. 33/33/33&
3. Garage
4. 300

campbell wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:18 am

WTF, George? That's practically a trip to MOT it and then back home

I know, quite embarrassing, Just looked back at the old MOT's and I was a little bit out under the last 4 years (500 miles average, not 400):
2013: 8601 miles
2014: 12,174 miles (Included trip back from Swindon in 2013 after picking up the car)
2015: 12,881 miles
2016: 13,236 miles
2017: 13,803 miles
2018: 14,099 miles

Now if you want really bad annual mileage then the 748 takes the accolade:
2006: 8932
2007: 9242
2008: 9896
2009: 10,432
2010: 10992
2011: 53 (Replacement speedo just after MOT)
2012: 159
2013: 415
2014: 431
2015: 544
2016: 580
2017: SORN
2018: 616

That really is a trip to the MOT station and back for me.

George

Since my bike accident in 2014 have done between 40 & 60 miles a year on the Bonneville. At every MOT the intention is to start commuting by bike again but...... maybe next year.

1.5-10k
2. Urban negligible, rural 99%, motorway 1%
3.Driveway
4. No laps but trips usually 300miles +
(VX220)

Thanks all