[luna_s]

I've been offered an older model e-up for not a bad price and I'm trying to decide if it's worth going for or waiting to see if I can get the newer one with more range
Is the older 90 mile range easy to live with ? I'd expect that to drop significantly over winter. I only have a short commute but I'm not entirely sure I can live with < 100 mile range but the price seems reasonable enough

 

[luna_s]

Thanks all,

I may be best waiting till next year then, maybe see when or if the ID1 \ 2 are announced or just save more to get an ID3. I think I would prefer a car that's been built from the ground up as an EV vehicle instead of a conversion. The UP interested me as that's the car I currently drive (and enjoy) and costs me next to nothing to run.

I think I would have too much range anxiety with the smaller battery (I get range anxiety as it is with petrol vehicles!)

I'm just itching to get into the world of EV's but there's nothing that's standing out to me at the moment

 

[luna_s]

That's one possibility , I don't want to get a car with limited range just in case my circumstances change

 

[luna_s]

I really like UPs, the whole family has one so there's 3 in the household - I downgraded from an Abarth to a 90ps up and never regretted it. Now I want an EV of similar size hence me looking at the EV ups.
I don't understand why most EV's are crossovers or similar - I really have no need for anything large.

 

[luna_s]

Well, at the end of the day I managed to find a brand new e-up at a good price - getting it at the end of March. I can't wait although I'm over thinking the charging situation at home which I'm sure will be fine. Now I just need to convice work to get some EV points installed

 

[luna_s]

If there's an outdoor 13A socket they'll let you use all day, you can pull around 16kW with a granny cable in an 8-hour shift.
That's around a 50% charge for the e-Up!

That's the plan, I've asked the site manager too to see if there was any plans to add charging points to the site - they were looking at it before Christmas apparently

8 hours charge should last me a week

 

[luna_s]

Hoem charging will probably work out fine for me, the commute is 6 miles each way and the car I have now never does any long journeys
So an hours charge a night if I wanted would be more than enough, a full charge would probably last 2 weeks....