Electric cars.

[Alastair70]

The problem is "your average" BEV is the BEV most of us are going to be able to afford.

The technology is the same across the ranges. 5 year old EV’s don’t get scrapped. On the contrary, they hold their value as well as any ICE.
I’d expect that if I’d spent 30k on an electric Kona (the only other car that met my range requirements in early 2020) I’d be getting 7.5-ish on the trade in.

If you’re looking for a chesp EV, I’ll sell you my old one for 10. Alternatively, the cheapest new car on the road at the minute is an EV, and it’s even less than that.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

the cheapest new car on the road at the minute is an EV.

What is it?

 

[Alastair70]

What is it?

Citroen Ami.
Or at least it was a couple of months back.

My new EV is going to cost a little bit more.
If anyone can offer a rational reason why an ICE would make more sense I’ll switch the order to the petrol

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Citroen Ami.
Or at least it was a couple of months back

I am not surprised.

 

[Alastair70]

I am not surprised.

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Yes, but at the end of the day, if your going to make the argument about cost, EV’s win.

Needless to say, I’m not buying one of those.

 

[Nicks90]

https://www.carwow.co.uk/renault/news/5038/new-renault-5-electric-car-price-specs-release-date#gref
23 grand for a new leccy car is cheap, and it's good looking thing too. You can easily spend much more than that on a comparable Skoda or Hyundai ICE car and not get the benefits of cheap fuelling

 

[JockyBrewer]

So you can just stick a tenner in, how far will that go

My car will do around 4 miles per kWh. So the possibilities are as follows for a tenner:

At home on an overnight charging tariff (7p/kWh) = 571 miles
At home on a regular tariff (23p) = 173 miles
Cheapest public charging near me (45p) = 88 miles
Rapid charging near me (79p) = 50 miles

I think as more public charging points go in it’ll come down in price, particularly if they’re run by the local authority instead of a private company.