Similar sized EV would set you back a fortune just now ! My son was contemplating buying a brand new EV. The petrol version was £10k cheaper !! Didn’t buy either and plopped for a 3yr old car instead. Took some explaining about how he would never see the saving switching to electric for the mileage he does .
Are we being forced to go electric?
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Similar sized EV would set you back a fortune just now ! My son was contemplating buying a brand new EV. The petrol version was £10k cheaper !! Didn’t buy either and plopped for a 3yr old car instead. Took some explaining about how he would never see the saving switching to electric for the mileage he does .
Absolutely and as we said previously it's just so lucky that the price of Diesel and Petrol is so stable and will be so long into the future, and that there are no world events precipitating a mass abandonment of fossil fuels. Personally I'm going for swallowing the cost up front.
Out of interest how much did the BMW cost? I'm finding 3 year old BMW 3 series to be around £20k. About the same as an MG MG5 Estate - fully electric.
Profpointy
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not any more presumably
No idea how much they cost these days. However , again it maybe simpler decision to make once charging networks are sorted out . Which I’m sure they will . Just not there yet ! ( not everyone’s experience I know )
330d xdrive
We been touring the local beachs in France. Right now the ID4 is currently at 100% SOC, the Tesla 79%.
Honestly I struggle to understand what issues people are still concerned about?
EVs arent some future technology waiting for mass deployment, they work really well right now for most families.
But so do Petrol and diesel vehicles? Tell you one thing the price of fuel maybe high just now but so is the cost to actually buy a replacement car be it an EV or not, used or new. I can see folk hanging onto their cars for a lot longer than normal ! Not sure that’s a bad thing or not ?
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There are two main issues slowing the take up. First is the perceived limitations on range. I know and you know that it isn't going to be a problem for most, but getting that message across isn't easy.
Second is the up front cost. Most families aren't buying new, and can't afford a premium of a few thousand pounds on their next 2nd hand car. Just to show one example, where there are petrol & electric versions of the same car. A 2020 Vauxhall Corsa comes in at around £13000 on Cinch. A 2020 Corsa-e is £24,000. Both with between 10k and 11K on the clock. There are cheaper deals on Autotrader, but they are still all several thousand more than the similar petrol models.
All of the above is true. What is also true is that the price of fuel is probably going to get worse, and continue to do so. The net effect of the death of the ICE industry is going to be higher diesel and petrol prices followed by a decrease in the number of places where you can buy diesel and petrol. 7 years until no more petrol or diesel cars being sold in the UK, and other countries doing the same.
vickster
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Where is the MG 20k with decent spec?
This one looks decent:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-de...o=2022&page=1&percentVehiclePriceDeposit=true
13,000 miles on the clock, lots of nice luxuries inside.
vickster
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Very Boring colour
And a private seller…I’d never spend what is closer to 22k on a private sale with no comeback or warranty 👎
And miles away!
On the subject of heaters, back in't day, I owned two VW Beetles. They were reknown for the cables to the heating shutoff panels to rust through. On one, they had rusted open; great in the winter, but in the summer, cor - ! T'other they'd rusted closed, so in the winter, we froze our a***s off - ! 
byegad
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Luxuries, luxuries, lad - ?
Eeh, back in't day, a luxury was a heater in the car - !
Heater? My dad's first car, bought in the late 1940s was an Austin 7 reg XG3 it came with only rear brakes as standard. He bought the kit to fit front brakes after failing to come to a halt behind a United bus which had pulled into a bus stop in front of him!
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