RogerWilko, my issue isn’t the daily driving, I can manage that quite nicely with my 44.5 kWh ZS. The issue is that I’m 100 miles from the nearest Motorway and I can’t do that in this car in winter. I’m relatively sure that the 60 would do it adequately but the 80 would get me to friends in and around South Hampshire in one shot if we needed to, regardless of season.
Then there’s the emergency long distance trip that may well be approaching where my mum’s family are in Cumbria (quite a trek from Cornwall) and there’s a inevitable conclusion that a funeral may be a sudden eventuality. Doing that in the ZS requires 6 stops and I’ll get fleeced in Whitehaven just to get back to the motorway network. In the 80 that would be a 2 or 3 stop journey with enough charge to avoid the £0.99/kw and get back to a less unreasonable £0.75/kW.
The reason behind the question is that for some locations if you travel any distance with any regularity, then a 200 mile summer range might leave you stuck for the winter. For example, I have friends who live just south of Helston, towards the Lizard, for them to drive to Exeter takes just over 2.25 hours and is a trip of 125 miles. In winter one of the Stellantis SUVs couldn’t do that trip unless it was at a hazardous speed and with air con off. Not something you’d want to do, especially if the car steams up. So they would be incapable of getting to family for 5 or 6 months of the year.
For me it’s not an issue, I have my own car that will be sold to fund the new car, once I can finally proceed. I just thought that there are people in circumstances where they want to save the money available from local EV driving but still need to get to family elsewhere in the country should the need arise. It’s not just Cornwall that struggles, there’s areas in Cumbria, Wales, the North East and Norfolk that are quite distant from a main route and charging opportunities.
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