As Glosy Guy said, I think this forum is likely populated with early adopters. I suppose I fit that term, but for me a car is simply to get from A to B and I only really care about how it looks, is through the drivers window. I currently drive a 4 year old PHEV (had PHEV’s since 2015, all on Motability). I home charge and day to day it runs on battery power with occasional longer journeys using the ICE. Last 2 weeks it’s been running purely on ICE as I had a new wall charger fitted ready for a replacement BEV and can’t charge old type 1 on new type 2 charger. It’s suddenly burning through the fuel and waiting 10 mins in the AM to de-ice is a pain, I miss the EV side of the driving but it’s only temporary.
I switched to BEV as suddenly its become ‘affordable’ on Motability. I have off-road parking & therefore can home charge at some very cheap rates. My daily commute is low. I wouldn’t have gone full BEV if I was out on the road and regularly using public charging sites. (though filling an ICE at an inaccessible filling station is no fun).
I don’t have range anxiety. My main concerns are
1) Accessible public charging stations (even plugging in normal EV cables in a wheelchair can be an arse).
2) The eye watering cost of fast public chargers (I can stomach this for occasional longer journeys and holidays etc).
3) Reliability of public chargers.
4) Congestion at public chargers.
Hopefully a government with less hostility to EV vehicles will maybe offer tax breaks/incentives for EV car loans, public charging caps, tax breaks for companies installing public charging infrastructure?
Hopefully the glut of EV sales via Motability will help the second hand market in the future (so all those early returns are a bonus to all the non-Motability users then?)
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