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No he's right. It's mostly BS with a sprinkling of truth in it. The funny thing is, towards the end, after 7 minutes of telling us how "impossible" it is, he actually says mechanics are buying bootleg software just so they can do the same think as the car manufacturer does with the laptop...

I really don't know why manufacturers do that! Stainless is just about the worst bearing material known to man! As if that wasn't bad enough, it's viciously corrosive to iron and mild steel when in electrical contact with them. After a while, the groove that they sit in just corrodes like...

Fantastic! Mate of mine had a series of them when we were students. "Rusty" just doesn't BEGIN to describe the state they were in, but those flat 4 motors were an absolute jewel!

Reliant Rebel. Bloody front wheel bearings collapsed when I did my emergency stop! Made horrible grumbling noises for the rest of the test. I think the examiner was very glad to get out!

Probably truer to say you spent another £60 on your £1500 ICE car today... ;) On the plus side, you'd never ever need to buy most of those things for an EV, and brake shoes would probably last the life of the car too.

I was a student at Hatfield Polytechnic in the mid '80s when they were building the M25. I don't think they'd quite finished it while I was there, but they finished the tunnel under Hatfield, 'cause I can remember us racing our knackered old student cars through it!

Not if you're happy with the range. I think Nissan were offering exchange Leaf batteries for about £4k at one point, but I'm sure there are cheaper places that will repair or recondition your existing battery pack. Of course, you don't have to buy a second hand Leaf. The early ones didn't...

I guess it's possible that his 6000 miles a year is one long road trip... :unsure:

If it's only doing 6000 miles a year, maybe that's enough? Battery swap on a Leaf is supposed to be pretty easy as a DIY proposition.

Should be loads! The anti-EV brigade keep telling us people can't give them away! ;)

As I tried to explain in Post#128, if you replaced like-with-like (i.e. a £1500, low-powered EV), I think you'd start saving pretty much the minute you got it?

Yet you only talk about the 50 MPG £1500 car... :unsure:

If you bought one with similar performance, I imagine it would do about 4 miles to the kWh, so depending on what electricity tariff you went for, would cost around 2p/ mile to run - probably a bit less. More like 1.5p / mile. For 6000 miles a year, that would be about £90. Your diesel is...

They'd be welcome to mine, if they can handle it! That was the deal when they took me on. Some folk get paid more money but don't get a company car. Them's the breaks. Other companies could do the same. But let me put you out of your misery. As a private motorist, you'd get change out of...

I was??? :unsure: Not sure I remember that one?

Absolutely true (well, if you don't count the blood, sweat and tears I put into my day job, I guess)! But how much did you think it set the company back?

Why are you comparing a £40k EV with a £2k petrol knacker? Wouldn't it be better to compare like-with-like? Also, if I wasn't maintaining the car myself, I'd be paying someone, but how much do you reckon a service costs for my EV? (Main BMW stealer prices for a £60k, three-and-a-half hundred...

Of course it does! I've never bought a brand new car in my life - EV or ICE, and if I was shopping for another car, I'd buy used. (So I'd get a used EV). Here's the thing though. When they took my last diesel off me, I could have had another one but I thought: "actually... I might as well...

Mine? No, it's a company car, and yes, used partly for business miles.

Loads more than an ICE car. BUT, you're forgetting that ICE cars can only get their fuel from petrol pumps, whereas most EVs don't get most of their electricity from public chargers. Not much. Earlier ones and those near the lower end of the market that don't have heat pumps, sometimes suffer...