I disagree with @Rene on Hybrids, whils’t mild hybrids are marketing ploy, full hybrids certainly have a place and PHEV’s are ideal if you don’t exceed their battery range otherwise the economy plummets.
Not really disagreeing, if you just repeat two of the three points i already made verbatim.
Full hybrids don’t justify their increase in price. Show me one that does. To take your car as an example, the FHEV is over £3000 more expensive than the MHEV. For a saving of a litre every 62 miles. 10 litres every 620 miles. 100 litres every 6200 miles, or 1000 litres over 62000 miles. Over 62k miles, you’re half way through making up the £3000 outlay.
Feel free to point out where i’m missing the obvious. Those numbers are already the “pretty” numbers stated by Hyundai themselves, as a sidenote.
As for affordable EVs with decent range, i’m with kezo on the Enyaq and EV4. I’d add the Kona, but genuinely out of all these cars, the Enyaq or EV4 are the ones to go for. Imo the two only really decent EVs currently on the scheme (price-wise).
Personally, despite being a bit steeper, i’d take the Enyaq. Mainly for the raised seats compared to the EV4, but driving a Hyundai, Kia/Hyundai EVs do have a kind of sword of damocles over their head. It’s constantly on our mind that our ICCU could give out any day, randomly, as both Kias and Hyundais are well known for.
The ICCU being the rough equivalent to an alternator. In fact, my brother in law recently (8ish weeks ago) got stuck on a Tesco parking lot because the ICCU gave out in his Kia Niro. Parked, went shopping, got back out and the car was dead. Proper dead, nothing electric worked. The ICCU roughly being the electric equivalent to an alternator, it is uses the driving battery to charge the 12v battery. If that fails, the 12v goes dead, and if the 12v is dead, nothing works. No ignition, no door openers, no key fob, boot etc. In fact, his car didn’t even release the charging cable (he was plugged in at the time), and we had to faff at 0 degrees outside in the rain under the bonnet trying to find the emergency release for the charging plug.
Now. Not all Kias or Hyundais have that issue. But just have a google (Ioniq ICCU, or EV4 etc ICCU) and look for yourself how many do – it’s a bit of a coinflip.
Test drive both and see, i personally wouldn’t look at any other EV on the scheme currently, at those prices.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.