The trick is choosing a suitable car. Big cars are few and far between on the scheme and most that seat over 5 people are effectively vans. what’s more concerning is that the battery sizes are around the 50kWh area which is a long way from good enough to get a large vehicle any reasonable distance in winter.
For example, a van doing 60mph with a realistic 150 mile range will need topping up not long after 120 miles at most. That means a 300 mile one way journey is 2 full recharges, which will be about 90 minutes off the road. Conversely the e5008 will only need one charge and that could be as little as 30-40 minutes. It’s not ideal but is better.
With its 800V architecture, there’s a much faster charging with the EV9 and whatever the Hyundai version may be. That means even with the same range, the stop times are nearly halved.
Think really hard about how often you go beyond the max range. I found the the MgZS I had with a 44.5kWh battery was effectively keeping us from going anywhere in the winter. The Ioniq 5 we now have can travel nearly double the distance on a run and that makes a huge psychological difference to thinking about going away for a day/weekend.
As for the costs, simple maths tells you a full charge will be around £5 but that’s from absolutely crawling to the charger with every warning going nuts. Again simplish maths says at 4 miles per kWh you’ll be getting around 280 miles off that £5. At 30 mpg and a gallon costing north of £5 it’s pretty obvious how much you’ll save.
When I first switched to EV fuel was below the £1 per litre, I still saved around £60 per week doing less than 200 miles. At today’s prices my monthly savings would be substantial, as in covering charger install costs within a year type substantial.
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