Thanks @Paul_1964 That’s very useful. By my quick ‘back of a fag packet’ calculations, if you were spending £100 a month on petrol whilst only doing 5,000 miles a year, your last car only did around 25 mpg. I’m not surprised that you switched to an EV! Thankfully, my current petrol car achieves around 42 mpg.
Running costs aren’t terribly high on my priority list when it comes to choice of car, so I’m happy to pay more to drive around in a car that gives me pleasure and only requires a 5 minute petrol stop once every 2-3 weeks, but with Motability now focussing so heavily on EVs, especially at the upper end of the scheme, if we stay with Motability I’m going to have to seriously consider one.
Thanks for explaining the 80-100% issue. My only worry with that is that if only charging to 80% the already low range is reduced even further. I accept that petrol is mind blowingly expensive at motorway service stations, but as my petrol car has a range of 600 miles I never have cause to use them. Possibly they are less easy to avoid with an EV though on a long journey? All interesting food for thought though, especially as we can charge at home and most of our journeys are well within the range of EVs, even in the winter when the range drops. It’s the longer journeys that trouble me. On a long journey we only make very short stops for the loo. We don’t have coffee breaks, so the need for a 20-30 minute stop would be a pain.