But Kelso, you are looking at a BEV useage wrong. you don’t run it the same way as an ICE car, where you run the fuel down to 10% then fill up at a petrol station. The average daily journey in the Uk is around 20 miles (governments National travel survey) so that us easily done in a BEV, with small top ups to keep the “tank” filled up to around 80% tgars a very different way of filling compared to ICE cars. For those irregular=r long distance journeys,a gain, you use something like A Better Route Planne to assess when you need to charge and where to do it. On long distance routs, like us travelling 3 hours from the midlands t Lancaster to see my son at University, even with an ICE car yiu will stop on the way. Someone who does many long journeys from Scotland to the midlands in his Enyaq iv60 has a yiu tube channel and is in a few Facebook ev pages, is Donhmall Dod and he has some really great videos on YouTube if these journeys showing he can do it with ease. Have a look at his you tube page enyaq Gorm, we’ll worth a view
In around an hour or so I will be driving 3.5-4hrs non stop 99.9% of the time. If I do stop its for a quick pee and I’m on my way. The roads are main B roads along with some A roads. I do this every 3 weeks come rain, shine, summer or winter. If I go the long way round (motorways) that currently adds 45mins to an hour onto the journey. One day in the no so distant future, I will have to make that journey without the worry of stopping to charge an electric vehicle, so an EV isn’t for me now, although I’m not against them. Maybe when one is available with a winter range of 350 miles I will look again.
Looking at it another way. the long range ioniq £8k, that would mean based on my current vehicle I would have to pay £6k in petrol before I broke even not accounting for charging. I wouldn’t!