I do understand the on the go charging scenario, you are right it does take longer but i’m 32000 miles in, £5k richer and happy with 30 mins inconvenience once a month or so. If you do 600 miles every 4 weeks ie 150 miles a week average then a single charge once a week at home would save you time and money…….
I still don’t see how it would save me time Ian. I currently don’t have to touch the car, other than to drive it, with the sole exception of a single fuel stop of less than 5 minutes every 3 weeks or so. I absolutely get the cost differences though and quite understand that for the vast majority of Motability users that’s their prime consideration.
I admit that I am probably an anomaly on this forum. When choosing a car, the primary considerations are a big enough SUV to accommodate my wife’s wheelchair, plus luggage (for holidays) and a car that I will enjoy driving (based upon my preferences) and like the look of. There are no EV’s on the scheme at present that tick all those boxes for me. Running costs are quite low down my list as fuel costs only represent around 3% of our total monthly expenditure. I would much rather continue to pay the additional fuel costs than have to regularly charge the car and worry about range anxiety when on a touring holiday (which we do quite often). I just couldn’t be bothered to plan journeys around where I can charge the car or have to make prolonged stops at places where I would otherwise not wish to. I also have no desire to pay all that money for a Motability car only to have to hire a different car for such holidays. I appreciate that I am in a position where I can make that choice and I fully respect that others have different priorities and for most the cheapest running costs will be top of the list, in which case EV’s win every time. It would just be nice if people could sometimes respect the fact that some of us have other priorities and preferences!