Reply To: What am i missing about EV’s?

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Berty
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    @mike

    Mike, do not get taken in by the EV range nonsense.  Unless you are doing 250 miles\day it is meaningless.

    My Pug 2008 and the ID.5 both have about 300 miles in a tank.  Both cars will have the climate control set at the same level. If the heated seats or steering wheel need switched on…they will be. If it needs heated up on a cold morning…it will be.

    My trips are always local, so I will be lucky if I am charging the EV once…maybe twice a week.

    But the old rule still applies.

    To fill up an EV at home costs about a fiver.

    To fill up with petrol costs £60.

    Unless you are using the car as an Uber driver, there is no range anxiety. The only thing I will do differently, if doing a long trip is planning my route better. The car or any number of apps will do that for me anyway.

     

    What I will do is set up my phone with the software and account for the BP charger, or whatever there is out there.

    I f I do need to take a long trip its there.   Tesla are already converting their superchargers for other EV’s, in 6 months it will be very different.

     

    There is no range anxiety…..

    If I do run out of juice, I will do the same as an ICE vehicle and phone the RAC.