Electric cars: Five big questions answered
The electric car revolution is speeding up but what do buyers really want to know?
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Can’t disagree with any of that. The costs mirror my own experience entirely.Electric cars: Five big questions answered
The electric car revolution is speeding up but what do buyers really want to know?www.bbc.co.uk
Electric cars usually cost thousands of pounds more than their petrol, or diesel, counterparts. This is because EV batteries are expensive to make and a high level of investment is needed to transform existing factory production lines to manufacture the new technology.
ICE car with anything close to the same performance and specification is going to be more expensive
My figures are even more stark than that. My cost per mile according to TeslaMate for the past 30 days has been 1.8p, compared to 20.43p in my my last ICE car (Octavia vRS) at today's diesel prices. That's £180 per year in electricity for 10k miles, vs £2,043 in diesel.For 10,000 miles p.a. this is a fossil cost of £1,500 - £2,500 vs. EV of £500. So saving £1000-£2000 p.a., £83 - £166 a month.
In the past 12 months I've paid for away-from-home charging 3 times
That much is certainly true.Knocking half a second off the 0-60 of an ICE that will do 0-60 in 4.5 seconds is going to be a tad more than £1,500
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You aren't.There are those unfortunate enough to have no option but to pay for "away-from-home" charging all the time and in my experience it costs me more to charge my car than it did to fuel my previous rather thirst petrol doing the same weekly commutes. When I first bought the car, I enjoyed free public charging but that has all come to an end, so now I'm feeling no financial benefit at all to owning an EV and I'm sure I can't be the only one.
Getting a Tesla to handle with delicacy and finesse is going to cost a tad more than £1500!!!
you're not the average one either.
pretty sure the median EV owner right now in the UK has a drive so from that point of view I am happily average.Going to become the average?
pretty sure the median EV owner right now in the UK has a drive
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For "fun" I had a Lotus-7 / Caterham style thingie, with a V8 - 300 BHP and 750kg. Scratched the itch for noise, umph, and going round a corner on rails (or tail-out if preferred ...)
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It is. Staggeringly good traction control. I test drove a BMW i4 M50 and it's traction was nowhere near as good.(Maybe the M3P is that rock solid too? I've only driven standard M3)
I can't agree with that, as they are different cars on different platformsDecent article, but this part is a very common misconception and is not at all correct for some manufacturers:
Electric cars look more expensive at first glance because the base list price seems high, but when you properly look at the specification of the car and what comes as standard equipment on the EV vs what you have to pay extra for on the approximately-equivalent ICE car the prices come out very similar indeed.
Take the ID.3 vs the Golf 8 as an example. The base ID.3 with no additional options is £35,835. To get roughly the same trim level and road performance as the ID.3 you need to look at the Golf GTD (closest petrol cars are more expensive). Once you've added the Winter Pack for the heated seats & steering wheel, the Discover Pro navigation and the reversing camera to bring the spec to similar to the ID.3, you're looking at £36,025 OTR. There's wiggle room in the prices of both cars by negotiating of course, but in my experience I was able to get a much greater discount from the dealer on the ID.3 than the Golf.
There's obviously very little to compare directly to the Teslas, but you can be quite certain that an ICE car with anything close to the same performance and specification is going to be more expensive once you add all the optional extras to bring up the spec.
I'd agree that there do need to be more options on the EV market for those who are not fortunate enough to be able to afford >£35k++ for a car, but a blanket statement that "EVs are more expensive than ICE cars" is not correct in a lot of cases.
EV's are still more expensive by a fair bit, and it can't really be denied.