Sounds great as a company car you dont pay for.
EV are they worth it?
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Like the company car before, that I again never paid for.
So I agree they are a perfect car if you get given one for free and dont have to pay for it to be installed. Otherwise the answer to the original post question ( EVs are they worth it) is -- NO
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Saving £3000 per year.
and spending, to save the £3000?
Wow that's great - show us your maths then. I might buy one myself in that case.
Me, me, me too!
No you won't.
17000 miles per year
Diesel 18p per mile
Electricity 3p per mile
15p per mile saved, £2550
The rest is not paying £250+ for servicing every year and for now, not paying anything for VED. That will change from next year, so the savings will be slightly less.
Another way of looking at it is that in the last 12 months, electricity for charging amounted to £601 for the entire year.
Previously diesel was £60 per week, and that was over 3 years ago when diesel was cheaper than it is today.
The vehicle was £6000 more than the diesel equivalent at the time, which was 3 years ago.
Savings have already covered that and £1000s more.
The previous vehicle was scrapped, so there was no question about buying a new one - only what fuel it would use.
Curiosity. My company car was up for replacement and they said I could spend up to £x on another diesel or £y on an EV, so I thought I'd try the EV.
As usual you are totally wrong and have completely misread the situation.. No one is being prevented from owning EVs. It's the pressure from government forcing these impractical souless things on an unwilling majority that is the issue.
Please just stick to dishing out insults. You are much more suited to this.
I can assure you that a lot of anti-EV loonies really don't want anybody to have them.
Not because they are "impractical" - for many owners they are exactly the opposite, and if you try to tell someone who finds them so that they shouldn't buy one because they're impractical then trying to stop people who want them from having them is exactly what you're doing.
Not because they are "soulless". Not because "unwilling" people are being "forced" to have them.
(When you say "soulless", BTW, do you mean that they don't make noise and smells?)
They object to their mere existence, because they fear explosions and fires. They fear that they are part of a government plot to take away freedom to travel. They fear that they are part of a government plot to monitor and surveil and track everybody's movements. They fear they are part of a government plot to imprison us in 15-minute cities by geofencing them. They fear that they are part of a government/WEF plot to do away with the whole concept of anybody owning anything.
Just go and look at the swivel-eyed weeblers who flock to the YT channel of the prat with many hats, for example, if you don't believe me.
Not because they are "impractical" - for many owners they are exactly the opposite, and if you try to tell someone who finds them so that they shouldn't buy one because they're impractical then trying to stop people who want them from having them is exactly what you're doing.
Not because they are "soulless". Not because "unwilling" people are being "forced" to have them.
(When you say "soulless", BTW, do you mean that they don't make noise and smells?)
They object to their mere existence, because they fear explosions and fires. They fear that they are part of a government plot to take away freedom to travel. They fear that they are part of a government plot to monitor and surveil and track everybody's movements. They fear they are part of a government plot to imprison us in 15-minute cities by geofencing them. They fear that they are part of a government/WEF plot to do away with the whole concept of anybody owning anything.
Just go and look at the swivel-eyed weeblers who flock to the YT channel of the prat with many hats, for example, if you don't believe me.
In reality, I think very few actually really do fear the "fire and explosion" aspect. They'll regurgitate it and share it as part of their propaganda war, but they don't actually believe it themselves. The main reason is that they're just crying libertarians and climate change deniers who don't like change.
If the government weren't forcing us to have ridiculously overpriced EVs, I wouldn't be here debating this. If EV or ICE ownership was left entirely to personal choice that would be fine. But it's not. If it was down to personal choice and the market chosing, EVs would just remain a niche, fringe activity - bit of a novelty. They would be bought by the sort of people who take pride in being the best at recycling in their street and go on marches to ban X or free Y. The sort who adopted Toyota Pious ownership early on. EVs would eventually wither on the vine as the novelty wore off and most would drift back to ICE ownership.
If governments are forcing something on you - you know (A) it's not in your best interests (B) it's likely to be in the government's interests (C) it's going to cost you, big time.
If governments are forcing something on you - you know (A) it's not in your best interests (B) it's likely to be in the government's interests (C) it's going to cost you, big time.
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