PCP vs Cash when buying a car question.

[motorbiking]

Yeah, I know, I know but 20-40 minutes to continue your journey (assuming you could be guaranteed to get on a charging point immediately, halfway up the M1) would be like waiting for an extremely slow kettle to boil in my eyes. Maybe I’ll come round to it by the next time I’m looking to buy a car.

It's not an issue given you have multiple cars. Every time you need your car, it will have a full "tank" of fuel because it's been charging on your drive.

 

[motorbiking]

The numbers stack up if you are desperate for a new car. But so many people are doing PCP that the used market is getting flooded.

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Assume this TUCSON Advance 1.6T 160PS 6MT
£33,080 OTR
£19,794 total Payments +
£13,514.51 Final payment, costs you a few hundred.

used Jag IPACE, 55% cheaper over the same period

 

[johnny2007]

Just press the pedals more gently.

Imagine trying to claim that you were speeding in an ICE car because you couldn't control the acceleration : you'd be nicked for failing to control the vehicle.

Honestly, sounds like the programme was just making something up. Such savage acceleration is possible, but neither mandatory nor unavoidable.

Press the pedal more gently???
Can't control acceleration???
What sort of scrap were you guys driving up to yesterday???
We're talking about glorified milk floats here!

 

[Mottie]

It's not an issue given you have multiple cars. Every time you need your car, it will have a full "tank" of fuel because it's been charging on your drive.

We are considering going down to one car if and when Mrs Mottie gives up work. We have two at the moment but one of them is a stinky old Golf diesel that was used to carry our dog around in. Nowdays it’s just used for shopping when we don’t care if someone bangs a door against it or catches the bumper and for going to/from the allotment and running stuff down the local dump. Anyway, I’m going to consider a PHEV Tucson as well now.

 

[fillyboy]

We are considering going down to one car if and when Mrs Mottie gives up work. We have two at the moment but one of them is a stinky old Golf diesel that was used to carry our dog around in.

Take the seats out and convert it into a campervan.

 

[accelerator]

What's going to cause everyone to have an attack of the vapours is that a lot of industry pundits reckon that, in the very near future, Chinese EVs will be the go-tos.

They are quite near that point already. The speed of improvement the Chinese can now achieve is impressive.

Chinese phone company Xiaomi lauched its first cars quite recently, and they are shockingly good.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

20-40 mins yeah if no queues and appropriate chargers and 200 mile on a nice summers day not a winters day/night

Someone was saying the the pub other day about his brother who bought one. Took his caravan away with it. Got to motorway services to recharge on way, but couldn't get into charging bays with caravan attached. Had to unhitch caravan in main car park and drive around to charging bays. By then, all the bays were taken, so had to wait 20 mins for next free one. Then half an hour waiting to charge car. So well over an hour's faffing around, when his previous ICE car would have been filled and away in under 10 mins.

The EV is going in as part ex for something practical.

 

[gas112]

Caught a programme the other day about the horrendous failure rate and fires with Chinese BYD`s . And showing acres and acres of cars stored that they will never sell and getting a fortune off the chinese government in subsidies for everyone of them

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Instavolt..........................................................., which take around 50 minutes or so

50 mins stuck in McD's car park?? Not exactly adding up to the 'Instavolt' name.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Just press the pedals more gently.

Imagine trying to claim that you were speeding in an ICE car because you couldn't control the acceleration : you'd be nicked for failing to control the vehicle.

Honestly, sounds like the programme was just making something up. Such savage acceleration is possible, but neither mandatory nor unavoidable.

Do electric vehicles make people more carsick?

An increasing number of people are experiencing motion sickness in EV and there is a scientific explanation as to why

www.theguardian.com

Why You Might Feel Carsick in an Electric Vehicle—Even If You’re Not Usually Prone to It

Online, people claim riding in Teslas and other electric vehicles leaves them feeling nauseous. From braking to lack of engine noise, experts said there are actually some reasons why car sickness may be more common in EVs.

www.health.com

 

[Brigadier]

Press the pedal more gently???
Can't control acceleration???
What sort of scrap were you guys driving up to yesterday???
We're talking about glorified milk floats here!

I'm refuting the telly programme claims, bitterness boy

 

[Brigadier]

Do electric vehicles make people more carsick?

An increasing number of people are experiencing motion sickness in EV and there is a scientific explanation as to why

www.theguardian.com

Why You Might Feel Carsick in an Electric Vehicle—Even If You’re Not Usually Prone to It

Online, people claim riding in Teslas and other electric vehicles leaves them feeling nauseous. From braking to lack of engine noise, experts said there are actually some reasons why car sickness may be more common in EVs.

www.health.com

Is car sickness a new thing then?.

My contention is that whether anyone feels sick is as much down to the driver style, than the vehicle.

 

[MNW67]

Is car sickness a new thing then?.

My contention is that whether anyone feels sick is as much down to the driver style, than the vehicle.

The interesting point for me in that article is that passengers anticipate acceleration from the engine noise.

 

[johnny2007]

I'm refuting the telly programme claims, bitterness boy

No bitterness here,just puzzled by crazy claims of EV owners thinking that they bought a space shuttle.
With my former dirty diesel I left my friend's Tesla at the lights despite his claims of 0-60 in 4.5 sec. (Or something similar to that).
Of course if you were driving a fiat 500 up to yesterday, any £50k+ EV will feel like a rocket.

 

[securespark]

We're talking about glorified milk floats here!

You have obviously never driven an EV, have you?
If you beat a Tesla at the lights it must have been that they were not flooring it, unlike you!