[Brydo]

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[Georgie]

Petrol.

Less than 10 minutes to fill for the full 450 mile range.

when I need to fill it while I’m out it takes – less than 10 minutes for the full 450 mile range.

>:-)

 

[Brydo]

Is that a hybrid petrol or a plug in petrol?

[rox]

Georgie wrote:

Petrol. Less than 10 minutes to fill for the full 450 mile range. when I need to fill it while I’m out it takes – less than 10 minutes for the full 450 mile range. >:-)

I with you on that ICE still for me, just no need for 2 engines and an ev for me is just not good enough range wise it limits you 2 much, The longer the range the more it will weigh. it’s why i like a 1.5l over a 2.0l it’s lighter..

I often do long journeys on the motorway.. sometimes epic ones

[Phaedra]

EV or PHEV would be great for me, mostly short journeys with the odd 200 mile round trip a couple of times a year.  Unfortunately there’s virtually nothing in the way of charging points anywhere I drive to and as my car is on the other side of a public footpath my council aren’t happy about sticking a charging point there or having a cable lying over it!.

MHEV would do but it would have to be SUV sized (6′ 5″ with mobility problems and a 6′ 3″ Autistic adult son).  Hopefully the new Tiguan will be available in 2023 when renewal time comes, that’s assuming my current one turns up sometime soon! it was supposed to be here early/mid May, now looking at a possible July delivery!.

Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!

[Elliot]

Hybrids would be no good for me at all in that usually most of my journeys are over 30 miles, meaning once the electricity has run out I’m left with a puny engine which makes the car underpowered.

[Georgie]

It’s the recharging away from home that’s the big issue for me, though I can’t possibly be the only one who will be stuck in the car for 45 minutes, or whatever, while it recharges at a public recharging point because I can’t physically just go for a wander around the shops/Service Station of pop into a cafe for lunch while the car’s charging?

I love going for, as rox said, epic drives, and being tethered to 120 miles, or 200 miles, or 250 miles – Oh, but not if you need the heating and/or are driving at night and need the headlights as well, etc, then you have to cut your range by 20% or creep along desperately trying to eek out another 20 miles from a flagging battery.

[Georgie]

Hybrids are a stop-gap where you’re wasting fuel lugging around a lump of metal that probably gives you less range than if you just carried that amount of weight as petrol.  The deadline for the introduction of full electric has already been brought forward from 2040 to 2035, but the way things are going climate wise – for whichever reason is the flavour of the day – that date could very well be brought forward to 2030.

[Brydo]

2032 in Scotland Georgie.

Forgive me if I’m wrong Georgie but you seem a bit sceptical about climate change?

 

[rox]

Brydo wrote:

2032 in Scotland Georgie. Forgive me if I’m wrong Georgie but you seem a bit sceptical about climate change?

I hear Piers Corbyn is an astrophysicist who claimed that climate change is “utter nonsense”, as environmental activists stage protests across the country.

Mr Corbyn, who is an astrophysicist, said he believed the discussion around climate change was a “false narrative”.

“The whole thing is a manufactured protest and the government wants to hear these things because they have some sort of agenda of increasing taxation,” he told talkRADIO’s Mike Graham.

“The purpose of this false narrative is not to change climate, but to control us.

Pretty much like covid as well..There’s one view allowed that of authority, He’s been arrested twice over covid why as he mentioned 5g links.. You gotta ask why they have to silence the other voices or ideas and concepts also based on science as what is an strophysicist.. which till proven true or false all science is always hypothetical. but you’d think it was gospel.. Thats my issue..

What heats this planet up is the sun and right now it’s in a hot period, so they say and that is what’s changing the climate on earth.. which was called global warming but it stopped warming up so it had to be rebranded, somethings are on a bigger scale than man can understand.. But he never misses a chance to monitize it.. to keep us paying more and more sweat blood and tears of our time in exchange for currency

[JS]

its strange but for those few times that we may have to go just that little bit further is enough to stop most going full electric, im in that group as im not willing to take the risk of “what if this happened”. it does make me wonder the percentage of the households that have full electric that do actually have use of a second vehicle or have no need to leave the area they live in, or have great public transport. although a low mileage user and over 90% of trips would be covered by most EV’s at present im in the PHEV/Hybrid corner for the next vehicle until the norm for EV is 300miles plus and the chance to top up away from home is not a trek on its own. at present unless its a two (suitable) vehicle household i cant see us going full electric just yet, although i really would love to i cant see anything ticking the boxes (q4 when we can order) Blimey that came around Quick.

[ChrisK]

@JS

VW did have an answer to that odd moment where 10 to 20% of your travels is long range, I fall into that peg hole myself but going back when the electric Golf was introduced VW had a policy of lending you a petrol/diesel version of the Golf for those odd long range trips. Don’t know if they still do that because I haven’t heard that for awhile.

Of course that’s no solution for we disabled, well not for me anyway, because the car needs adaptions to drive and although I truly love the Golf I can’t get my scooter with a hoist into the back of it.

Going back to “which one is best for you” I think were all going to have to settle for the Nissan Leaf because the latest news today is government want to give everyone £6,000 to switch to electric only cars that in turn will boost the British car industry but, and I could well be wrong here, but the Leaf is the only one built in the UK.?‍♀️

[Tharg]

I’m with Georgie on this: range, availability and speed of charging; hybrid limitations all make me prefer to stick to internal combustion. Also, we don’t really know how long batteries will really last before they wear out. Will watch the introduction and development of the ID3 with great interest.

[Oscarmax]

PHEV + 1

Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.

[Rhodgie]

If you get a car through Motability on a 3 year lease why oh why would it matter how long batteries will <i>really </i>last…. ?‍♂️?‍♂️

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