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I think I have now made my choice of my next vehicle, I’m going for the Hyundai Ioniq SE, financially it appears that it will save me a small fortune over the 3 years, but have a few queries.
1, I can’t have a charger installed as live in a flat, so will be looking at getting a Charge point installed at my partners, I presume I will have to pay for this myself.
2, On the Motability site, it says if you can’t have a charger at your home, they will provide you with access to the Polar network, is there any benefit to this over and above just signing up as normal?
3. Anyone got an Ioniq, whats it like in your experience, seems to be well rated in the press, What Car Family EV of the year and seems to ride better than the Leaf, also seems to get pretty close to it’s suggested range?
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I think I have now made my choice of my next vehicle, I’m going for the Hyundai Ioniq SE, financially it appears that it will save me a small fortune over the 3 years, but have a few queries. 1, I can’t have a charger installed as live in a flat, so will be looking at getting a Charge point installed at my partners, I presume I will have to pay for this myself. 2, On the Motability site, it says if you can’t have a charger at your home, they will provide you with access to the Polar network, is there any benefit to this over and above just signing up as normal? 3. Anyone got an Ioniq, whats it like in your experience, seems to be well rated in the press, What Car Family EV of the year and seems to ride better than the Leaf, also seems to get pretty close to it’s suggested range? Thanks
Hyundai Ioniq SE, would have been my choice of EV on the scheme this time last year, it’s efficient, it’s pretty well equiped.
I don’t know if Motability will allow the charger to be put at your partner’s address, you must ask them that.
The access to the Polar network if you can’t have a charger is another thing that Motability talk about & would involve a Polar Plus card (now renamed) worth I think £7.65 per month that gets you cheaper rates on the chargers that network owns. I have a Polar Plus card anyway from Peugeot (6 months) plus the original 3 months that is free anyway, and last summer I made good use of it as many supermarket Polar 7kW chargers are free (just use the card to start & stop the session), the 50kW rapid chargers are 15p/kWh, and the 150kW ultra rapid chargers were 20.4p/kWh which has recently risen to I think 27p/kWh. If you are going to use the Polar chargers then it’s worth having, especially if it’s free.
I test drove an Ioniq & loved it, but at the time the cost was too close to the Peugeot e-2008 that I got, but there are other cars on the scheme now that you should seriously consider too, notably the MGs, and maybe the Hyundai Kona, the 64kW Kona would be my choice at the moment but it is pricey, but that extra range would make the charger question less important.
I’d suggest having a watch of Bjorn Nyland’s youtube videos on all these cars since he tests them very well & isn’t paid by the industry to recommend their cars.
Thank you Julie,
I will take a look at his videos.
Main reason for the Ioniq is the Advance payment, I’m a War Pensioner, and with our extra payments and the Grant we get towards an Automatic, it means my AP is only £227, I like the Kona (and especially the eNiro, sadly not on the scheme) but find it difficult to justify paying nearly £2 grand extra for the Kona even with the extra range.
If you have to pay for a charger to be installed at your partner’s address then there are alternative chargers of course and you’d hopefully get the OLEV grant. It’s worth considering a smart charger if your partner has a smart meter as then it’s possible to use a tariff that could cut the cost of the electricity you use on the car. The smart charger would charge the car at the times when electricity is cheapest on that tariff.
Then there’s the non-OLEV grant way where you get an electrician to install a 32A commando socket & you use an OHME cable (it has the smart electronics) so you can plug in elsewhere if there’s a 32A commando socket….
A good read of the General Charging Discussion section of http://www.speakev.com/forums/ will give you all the information that is available on chargers.
Thank you Julie, I will take a look at his videos. Main reason for the Ioniq is the Advance payment, I’m a War Pensioner, and with our extra payments and the Grant we get towards an Automatic, it means my AP is only £227, I like the Kona (and especially the eNiro, sadly not on the scheme) but find it difficult to justify paying nearly £2 grand extra for the Kona even with the extra range.
OK, consider the MG MOTOR UK MG5 ELECTRIC ESTATE 115KW EXCLUSIVE EV 53KWH 5DR AUTO against the Ioniq, it’s got more space, and larger battery which although the car is less efficient should just outrange the Ioniq.
My choice between the two would be….. er…. difficult, probably the Ioniq as it’s very reliable.
I test drove the ionic electric. Proper sized electric car designed with family comfort in mind and it is very roomy both in the front, rear and boot spaces. A very good choice and with a decent 160 mile range.
“Ioniq” is going to become Hyundai’s EV brand, so there should be some other Ioniqs coming along in various guises. This could get confusing I suppose.
If you don’t have anywhere to charge at home i wouldn’t go with an ev, trust me it’s not worth the hassle, save yourself the headache, even for me i had an ev and i had a charge point at home i still got rid of it because it wasn’t worth the hassle of finding places to charge on longer journies
Thanks Ali, I can see where you’re coming from, but with the demise of Diesel engine availability and my high mileage, I think I just need to bite the bullet and adapt my life, charger availability near me isn’t great (edge of the Cotswolds) but it is getting better.
If AP were lower on the Hybrids, I’d probably go that way as an interim move, but in the end, it’s the way we will all have to move, and the savings for me are immense, if I can charge at 14p kWh, it works out at a £4500 saving in fuel costs over 3 years for me, even at 30p it’s £2500! I will no doubt have times when I’m sitting at a charger for an hour, but one thing I have more of than money is time.
Thanks Ali, I can see where you’re coming from, but with the demise of Diesel engine availability and my high mileage, I think I just need to bite the bullet and adapt my life, charger availability near me isn’t great (edge of the Cotswolds) but it is getting better. If AP were lower on the Hybrids, I’d probably go that way as an interim move, but in the end, it’s the way we will all have to move, and the savings for me are immense, if I can charge at 14p kWh, it works out at a £4500 saving in fuel costs over 3 years for me, even at 30p it’s £2500! I will no doubt have times when I’m sitting at a charger for an hour, but one thing I have more of than money is time.
Like you i bit the bullet and went for the KIA soul. After the test drive i was sold, all the negativity regarding range and charging was soon dispelled by doing my research. I looked back over 10 years of my life taking into account where i have been and where i have driven and i came to the astounding conclusion that if i bought the Soul with its 280 mile range and even if i only got say 200 miles out of that i reckon i would have had to stop and charge while out on a journey around 20 times and most of those long journeys i would have probably stopped for that length of time anyway for a coffee break. Its so easy to say were not quite there yet and opt for another fossil fuel car but we will have to make that shift soon whether we like it or not and im glad i have taken the decision to do it now.
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