Also, we are in a time where 200 plus mile affordable EV's are confidently expected soon - so many likely waiting for that.
I'm waiting for the cries of disappointment when they won't get close. I really wish people would stop overselling ev range. A 200mi NEDC ev is not a car that should be sold as being able to do 200 miles. Use the heater and it's miles off. Need some spare battery to actually get to a charger and it's less again. Charge to 80% and it's far less again. Deplete the battery over a few years and equivalent mileage and it drops again and so on.
Why don't they learn? People fell for the adverts the first time because ev's were a new thing to them. A lot of the trade-in's for ice are likely due to the car not doing what they were told it would. I was promised sincerely a 24kWh Leaf would easily do the NEDC numbers by the salesman just before running it from full to flat (pushing flat) in 55 miles. I told him my use pattern and exactly what I wanted it for and still he put it across that I would get that.
If ev sellers and fans are going to keep regurgitating a best case scenario as if it's the norm people are going to be disappointed and that will then put them off getting another ev anytime soon.
I can't believe anyone on here thinks people would buy an ev based on fuel prices unless there was some kind of crisis going on - where does that idea come from? Who goes into a dealer looking for a car and checks petrol prices on the way there?
A lot of people got an ev because of dealer BS and massive incentives which meant they could "afford" a much more expensive car than they could actually afford. Those incentives aren't there anymore so the appeal is far less. People who have experienced how an ev actually works rather than listening to the men in cheap suits will have soon found out that in winter that NEDC figure is a big stretch of the imagination and that in the real world you don't drive a car until it's completely flat so what range is there isn't all available unless you want to play battery roulette every time you want to get near it.
As for a charging network - having a laugh? A few chargers scattered about in various places which you need various apps, cards, subscriptions or whatever if you want to stand a chance of charging but then it's not guaranteed and can cost more than fueling an ice even if it does work?
Then there's the actual cost. There is usually around ÂŁ5-10k difference for an ev over an equivalent ice with the ice usually holding more residual value. The average is currently 8000 miles a year and most people have a car 2-3 years. 2yrs/8k in a modern diesel will cost around ÂŁ1350 in fuel. The same in an ev around ÂŁ400 of electric. That's a ÂŁ950 saving presuming 8p/kWh electric.
Even after putting 80k on it, the diesel would have cost ÂŁ6600 and the ev ÂŁ1600.
So presuming cheap rate electricity, presuming you get a great deal and there's only ÂŁ5k difference in price and presuming you can sell an 80k, 10 year old ev for at least as much as an 80k, 10 year old diesel (best of luck with that when it's missing a couple of battery bars and only does 40miles on a charge), you break even after 10 years.
People may come across as stupid but they can count and it just doesn't add up.
Show me an ev that's ÂŁ15k-ÂŁ20k, does a genuine 250+miles on a charge and can add 80% in 5-10 mins anywhere in the country and I'll show you a replacement for almost every ice out there.
Infact show me a charging network where you don't have to go looking for chargers, can pull up and charge, pay with whatever you like then leave and I'll show you a way to get a lot more people interested in ev's.
