Reply To: Advice about getting EV.

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kezo
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    Hyundai/Kia have had major ongoing problems with the PPF on both the Sportage & Tucson ICE. However, it not common across manufacturers and even Hyundai/Kia’s other models don’t suffer the issue and IMO a full Hybrid might be a wise choice.

    Fuel prices have been shocked, due to war in Iran, but it won’t last forever and oil has remained well under $200 a barrel. That said, public charge point providers equally started getting twitchy towards the end of last year due to increased energy costs and low to no profit margins running the stations and reported by trade magazine / Autoexpress and ChargeUK to name two. This has boiled over to this year, which may result public chargepoint suppliers offloading and/or putting prices up. So nothings particulary rosey out there in this respect.

    There might be options for charging at home, such as Kerbocharge, DLine cable cover, but you need to get permission from you local highways first.

    My advise if you can’t charge at home, is get an hybrid.