Reply To: Actually so glad we are on motability.

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Rich44
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    I have to say if you generally do lots of shortish journeys and don’t want to tow if you genuinely give an EV a chance not just an hour test drive but get one for a full day or longer.

    I no longer suffer from pains in my hands are arms whilst driving as very little vibration feedback on the wheel also obviously there’s no smells from hot engines, oil and fuel which is huge plus not having to deal with petrol stations.

    The old ZS with 160 odd mile range we found it started to get in the way but still we regularly did North Norfolk to alton towers until they changed disability access ffs and we’d stop for breakfast and a top up and that was it.

    The range with the Enyaq now being 300 miles ish and charging at 175kw too it was adding 11 miles a minute was stunning to watch.  That’s the difference 3 years ago best we could get was circa 160 mile range and now 3 years later it’s essentially doubled and charging speed is up over 300%

    Our housing ass put solar panels on the house so I cap the charging to the solar output on nice days and free miles. Our average price is about 14p per kwh on Agile and we get paid 15p kwh for exporting.

    There’s no way we could get a new car without motability credit check plus deposit. Motability just need to sort out their level 1 support staff as they’ll happily give you the middle finger but if you go to the ceo it gets sorted.

    As for rac they are useless 3 hour plus waits etc

    Ultimately no one solution is good for all so it’s important to have choice. In 3 years time I will bet that EVs will have a range more than petrol and charge so quick it won’t matter