The infrastructure is years behind. My mate had one and the battery didn’t last from Edinburgh to County Durham, even though it should have done. You can’t walk to the petrol station for a can of electric.
Yeah i agree they are **** and stupidly overpriced. Surely if the government want us to switch to electric costs should be less and electric charges for car charging should either be cheaper or subsidised. Personally I think self charging hybrids are the way forward the Japanese are the main producers of these at the moment and until we can get reliable electric cars that are convenient and not a total ball ache to charge we should be pooling a lot more into this technology. I also know people who wanted to switch to electric cars but were unable to be insured on them by insurers as they know that they are also a crock of ****.
My blue electric car was brilliant , but the red one kept flying off the track if you cornered even slightly fast.
Yeah the batteries on mine were only about £4 to replace. Lasted for about 2 hours but had loads in the cupboard
Are there any of these on the market now? Seems like something they'd try and get rid of in all honestly, best of both.
I was given one as a courtesy car when we played Huddersfield last season. Found a pub with an EV point. Car had “200 mile range easily”. Fully charged when I left my work home is 3 miles from work and 109 miles ish from Huddersfield. Had to recharge it at Wetherby!! Missed pre game pint with Smug etc. Ridiculous. Charged at the pub and again at wetherby on the way home. It had 11 miles left at wetherby on the way down!! They got it back with 3 miles on it
I dare not tell you the trouble my mate had coming up from around Wincanton to Bury Xmas gone. Took him and his missus over 9 hours each way in a brand new VW Tiguan
Hybrid is perfect for me. 95% of my journeys are up to 40 mile round trips. Easily covered by electric. Longer journeys I just flick between petrol and electric. I get home and plug in for 3 to 8 hours and its ready for next time. The only annoying thing is the RFL which I thought would be nominal. But its £500.
usually when the government decide on something, it is to hopefully guarantee (thier) business' will benefit and give them great payments but it usually ends up being worthless...take the old CB boom in the 80's, they decided on a frequency that no one else had (rest of the world stuck with the american frequency) hoping to ensure that british manufacturers would 'claim' the market, by the time british made radios came into the market it was dying off. i get the same kind of thought with this electric sh1te, a mate had two electric motors and had them in the garage more than he drove them, got offered yet another 'swap' and went for a deisel...not seen a bad winter for them yet so hard to judge but from various reports they could be rubbish if caught out in a bad storm.
I’ve just noticed the lass two along from me has swapped her electric mini for a petrol and I know she paid quite a bit to put the charger on the wall.
Perve alert. Perve Alert.. Similar to your rich mate, or is she his lass? Saw this when it was printed and thought we'd discussed it on the not worth a new thread - how I found your previous rich mate post... Anyway, garages are struggling to shift electric cars, they aren't commercially or technology viable at present.
Ha ha, no she lives right hand side he lives left hand side, well he will when he moves in, he still lives in his other house in the village until this one is ready. Still has the Jag by the way.
Yeah I was going to be offered one as a company car for a company I was about to join but backed out at the last minute. Think Toyota are producing a fair few of them. No idea on the cost mind.
Mine is a plug in hybrid, gets me to work and back each day on electric, charging every other day. Long journeys uses a combination of electric and petrol with a range of about 500 miles, so no 'range anxiety'. Love it, and it's fast with instant response to the throttle!
We went to buy a hybrid self charging car but the lass in the Toyota garage talked us out of it. The lass reckoned we didn’t do enough mileage to cover the difference in cost between the electric and the petrol and said we would be out of pocket so we got a petrol.
Still think this is the way. My Dad has one. Hates the car generally, or maybe the ****ty way he’s been treated regarding faults “potentially not covered by warranty”, but loves the hybrid side. And he worked his whole life with cars (retired 2020)
