Electric VW so cheap.....why

[carmanmemoranda]

For £32k you can get a Passat sport.
Will make you swallow your tongue off the mark at the lights.

Give a link to this please

 

[johnny2007]

If including the price of the vehicle then it would be.
Just as it would be comparing a £50k petrol car and a £100k petrol car.
Or a £50k diesel and a £100k diesel.
Or any other type of fuel.

If only EV were the same price of normal cars...

 

[Brigadier]

Give a link to this please

Johnny made it up, so he can't


OOI, I noticed that my EV6 is running at 4.0 miles / kWh.
Which, with the help of Google, equates to 160 mpg..............

Overnight charging at home: £4 for 300 miles as well

 

[securespark]

If only EV were the same price of normal cars...

When you say "normal", did you mean ICE?

In which case, some are, didn't you know?

 

[johnny2007]

When you say "normal", did you mean ICE?

In which case, some are, didn't you know?

Yes, I know.
I also know they won't be around as long as the equivalent ICE and they'll devalue a lot faster.

 

[Charlie George]

When you say "normal", did you mean ICE?

In which case, some are, didn't you know?

A big problem with EVs is depreciation, your car has lost around 60% in 2 years, not many comparable(pricewise) ICE cars will lose as much, not too much of a problem if you want to keep the car long term or lease instead.

 

[Brigadier]

A big problem with EVs is depreciation, your car has lost around 60% in 2 years, not many comparable(pricewise) ICE cars will lose as much, not too much of a problem if you want to keep the car long term or lease instead.

And the question is, why EVs - currently ( ) - do so?

 

[Avocet]

And the question is, why EVs - currently ( ) - do so?

Indeed. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If folk believe the anti-EV BS, they won't buy EVs, so the residual values fall - which actually gives them something real to talk about, so the residual values fall...! The irony is that they become "Shrodinger's EVs" - whereby they can simultaneously be both "worthless" and "unaffordable"!

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Not really.
I drove a Tesla model 3 and was enough to make my mind up on these milk floats.

Did you drive it in reverse? Teslas do make a rather daft 'ooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh' noise when reversing.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

20 yards in between drops

Two pints of semi and a strawberry yogurt please, Ernie?

 

[Elsa TLC]

Two pints of semi and a strawberry yogurt please, Ernie?

Ernie, was before his time...... he had the fastest milk float in the west.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

EVs will always depreciate faster thans ICE, because the target market of customers is much smaller.

EVs are only suitable for those who -
* stick to town driving
*don't do long distances
*have somewhere off street to charge it
*don't mind the extra work involved in using EV

Guessing the above list reduces the customers for a used EV quite a lot.

 

[securespark]

Can you explain points 1, 2 and 4?

 

[Avocet]

EVs will always depreciate faster thans ICE, because the target market of customers is much smaller.

EVs are only suitable for those who -
* stick to town driving

Bugger! I wish I'd known! I live in the middle of rural nowhere and I went and got one!

*don't do long distances

OK, thanks for that valuable information. I'll stop doing 20,000+ miles a year in it now I know that... Funny enough. I did Cumbria to Liverpool and back on Saturday in it, Cumbria to Glasgow and back yesterday. The week before last, I did over 550 miles in a day in it, but OK... whatever you say...

*have somewhere off street to charge it

Gosh! You actually got one right for once!

*don't mind the extra work involved in using EV

Yes, it's a real chore, not having to do all those oil changes, not having to change those pads and discs for over 100,000 miles, and not having to scrape ICE off it on winter mornings...

(Still have to top up the screenwash though...)

Guessing the above list reduces the customers for a used EV quite a lot.

It might... if it was true...

 

[Brigadier]

Guessing