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We are 4 years and 4 months into our lease on our Passat estate. Need a replacement before Dec and have looked at range of cars that’ll fit our needs. Car is for son, his wheelchair and a behemoth of a sports wheelchair. He is a student and funding it himself only willing to add £500 to the new car payment, taking our budget to £1250 advance payment.
First choice would be a Skoda Enyac, however we live in a housing association ground floor flat and are awaiting news from them to see if they’ll allow the installation of a charge point.
After looking around the only other car that fit our needs is the Toyota Corolla Touring hybrid, although a bit on the tight side, with some tetris, we got everything in.
Question for everyone is, is it financially viable to run the Enyac with only public charging, without a home charging point if our housing association say no? Enyac is defo roomier and a more comfortable choice over the Corolla.
Prices near me are currently
Tesco type 2 -7kW 44p, 22kW 49p, CCS 50kW 62p
ChargePlace Scotland type 2 – 22kW 60p, CCS 51kW 60p
Evolt Type 2 7kW 49p
Zest type 2 – 22kW 55p CCS 160kW 69p.
Corolla prob has between 50-60mpg and we’ve done an average of 17k miles, although doubt we will travel those distances anymore.
Thanks
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Personally, I’d be pushing your housing association for a decision, perhaps explaining that there are major adverse changes to the Motability scheme coming in a few months time and you have to order prior to them being implemented.
IF you can charge at home, the Enyaq is a great choice. If you can’t charge at home, personally I don’t think that any EV is suitable. Aside from the high costs of public charging (which, according to reports I read the other day are likely to rise as a result of the current issues), you’d have all the inconvenience and none of the benefits. Some people will tell you that it’s do-able, but my nephew convinced himself that he could run an EV solely on public charging and he deeply regrets his decision. He cannot wait for the lease to end so that he can revert to an ICE car.
If the Enyaq was on 10% battery and you charged to 80% at 66p kwh. That would cost you around £35 every single charge. Not only that you would be spending alot of time sat in car parks.
Where as with a home charger that same charge would cost about £4 depending on tariff.
There is no chance I would have a EV without a home charger.
No it’s the easy answer. Unless you have a home charger then don’t bother with an EV. In my previous Megane it was costing £40 for 150 miles at best! Whereas at home that would be 10-15% of that.
Expecting phone call back from the property manager tomorrow, he knows me and my son, even gave him a grant to compete in Celtic Cup wheelchair rugby league tournament couple of years ago in Galway. Fingers crossed he let’s us, as we have our own drive under cover, although our first call with them, said they’d be worried about a potential tripping hazard.
Thanks for replies, sounds like a resounding no, dont do it.
We have an appointment for Saturday with Toyota to order a Corolla if we get bad news from housing association on Friday.
Expecting phone call back from the property manager tomorrow, he knows me and my son, even gave him a grant to compete in Celtic Cup wheelchair rugby league tournament couple of years ago in Galway. Fingers crossed he let’s us, as we have our own drive under cover, although our first call with them, said they’d be worried about a potential tripping hazard.
Given the way that the government is trying to push people into EVs, you’d would think that local authorities etc would be bending over backwards to facilitate EV charging points. Fingers crossed that you get a positive answer.
Yeah I was given permission by my landlord 24hrs before handing back the Megane and collecting my ZR-V. I am actually going to call Motability in the morning and ask for an early termination. I have just read about the changes coming and I am on 36k miles in 26 months so expecting around 45k! The 30k mileage limit will hurt us financially so I think taking the hit now will be with it in the long run. Enyaq or countryman for me!
Have you got a designated parking space, as part of the tenancy agreement? If you don’t, Ohme will likely not install a charger!
I was told when I moved in 15 years ago that the covered, off street disabled bay next to my flat was mine, however hoping to get clarification tomorrow.
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