Cars... Again!

I've had 2 Octavia VRS's that were honestly 2 of the best cars that I've ever owned

 

I've had 3 Skoda Octavias and a Superb. They make great cars.

I switched recently but went down the electric route - got a Polestar 2 one year old for £25k.

Been thinking about changing the wife's Seat Ibiza for a Peugeot e208 or Vauxhall Corsa Electric - they're the same car underneath, but the Peugeot looks better.

 

I also switched to electric recently and went down second hand route. Some fantastic deals out there on them now, thats for sure.

 

There certainly are, which is why I was thinking about the corsa/e208 for the wife - there's a lot coming off company leases etc. and being made available for a decent price.
Plus at 7p per kWh if you charge at home, that's about a fiver for a full charge which equates to 200-290 miles depending on weather and around 2p per mile.

What did you go for?

 

I know that to my cost. I recently switched to a salary sacrifice lease through work and got a Vauxhall Grandland Electric as the great deal tempted me in. But it meant getting rid of my Niro and the cop who bought it from me, safe to say, got a bargain. The sensible version of me would have just kept it, but I am not very sensible.

 

I got a Jag IPace got a real bargain as my father in law managed to sort it for me. Was a part ex that had come into the garage he worked in. He snagged me a great deal on it just before he retired

 

Kia and Hyundai share a lot of parts as Hyundai own a large part of Kia.
The i30 will share a lot of things with the c'eed both decent cars and usually have decent kit as standard.

 

Been in an electric car for 2 years and my only challenge is on longer runs it can be a pain and expensive. Real world range is 250 in warm months and nearer 200 when it’s cold but I daren't go below 20 miles in excess of my expected journey just in case there’s a charge problem (not at home).

Cost at home c. £6 full charge, cost at a public ChargePoint would be c. £60 from empty to full. That makes it very expensive.

Long story short is great for local driving carp for long distance

 

Very much depends on your driving profile really.

If you are forever pounding the motorways and using rapids, then yes it's gets expensive and is likely not a good option right now.

If like me, and I suspect, most people, travelling more than 200 miles without returning home is rare, then those rare uses of rapids become a minor part of the overall cost of fuelling. Even then, on a long trip, the first 200 of miles of it was using cheap electricity.

I do 15k miles a year and use rapids about 10 times a year, mainly when we take the car on a UK holiday. The cost is irritating, but relatively insignificant overall.

 

We'd get on really well, me and thee then!

 

Not done any long journeys with a charge yet, but just consider how much you would pay in a petrol/diesel over a year compared to Electric - ok if you're on long journeys a lot then it can be expensive, but look around at chargers, there are a lot of cheaper options - Tesla super chargers are fairly cheap, Arnold Clark have a few centres with chargers at 55p per kWh and there are options where you can get cheaper with a subscription - Ionity for example, you just need to do a bit of planning.

 

Husband’s got one but it’s from 2003 so before the Puretech engines. They weren’t introduced until 2012.

 

I believe the majority of the lower in the range petrol Peugeot's and Citroen of the last 15 years have Pure tech engines. I'd been pre-warned by a mate who knows a bit about cars having worked for the Car People. Though the car had everything I wanted, and a couple of bonuses too like a panoramic sunroof, and it was in a great spec. So I went with my heart over my head. Thankfully, it was duff from the start and I was able to return it. Certainly going to be much more sensible with the next one.

 

I'd also recommend the hyundai i10, my Mum bought it new in 2010 and I run it today, its never had a single fault...however if its too small...why not look at Honda's...I have a 2015 Civic diesel that's really reliable and a lovely drive....or the Jazz...also supposed to be really good.

 

I have a electric van for work, ID buzz cargo, often do around 150 miles a day with a lot of motorway driving owned it 14 months, I charge to 100% when I know I am going to be doing about 150 miles a day for two consecutive days, only used public chargers three times main was when we had the heavy snow in January I can do Birmingham airport and back on a full charge but because it was very cold I was about 20 miles short of getting home so did a quick top up for 15 mins just enough to get home think the lowest I have had left charge wise is about 8 miles used Tesla ones as they are often faster and cheaper than the other fast public chargers, with the milage that I do did roughly working out and saved about 5k in the year that I would have spent in diesel. It's a brilliant van just coming upto 30k miles covered in it in the 14 months, also bought the other half a electric car as found we were using the Buzz more than her old diesel car so just bought another electric car that we can use instead of jumping in the van all the time.

The way I see it if you are doing a destination and back with a bit of running around at your destination and have used less than 50% of what ever the charge is in the battery you know you will get back home, don't get range anxiety at all.