If you were going to drive it 5000 miles a year, it would be better to buy a 2 year old MG with 45,000 miles or less. Then it will still be covered by the MG warranty until its 7 years old.
I'm trying to get it, and I have not ruled out the possibility that my next car could be an EV, but the maths has got to stack up.
In London, there was a point where anti-ULEZ campaigners stated that the 'poor' would suffer if they had to have clean cars.
I think the new one looks more modern, but I guess it's down to taste.
I see PCP already starting to come down (or at least people are reporting they are securing big discounts off list price again, which then brings the payments down. This time last year you could get an e208 for not much more than £200/month on a lease and those days will return.
Yep, one of the selling points for the Niro was twiddly dials for the climate and radio controls, and lots of functions controlled from buttons on the steering wheel. In fact on my base model you don't need to touch the screen at all whilst driving.
I read online that the rear spoiler used some clever aerodynamics to 'clean' the rear screen with an air curtain of sorts.
Having had a company Nissan Leaf and no off street parking in a rural area it really does depend on how flexible your work patterns can be. I think on days when I had medium distance journeys it generally took me longer in an EV that it would have an ICE. There was also a couple of times in the 2 years when I had to dump the Leaf in the Heathrow car park and rent a hire car on the company credit card because an incoming VIP charter was diverted to Luton at the last minute.
Exactly so; we ordered a new PHEV a while back and received it 13 months later, this summer. I think one thing that people mistakenly state as a barrier to adoption is street parking where charging cannot be provided - remember that street parking spaces do not have their own petrol pumps at the moment - the principle of going to a charging station is the same as going to a petrol station.
It does depend on where you live. I live within 60 miles of Charing Cross but the only public charging within 10 miles is a pod point at a local tescos which is 7kw and limited to 90 mins and some Tesla Destination Chargers at pubs and hotels. I believe BP are in the process of installing some sort of Rapid Chargers at their Hawkhurst Petrol station that's 13 miles away. There were some local authority chargers at tenterden 5 miles away but they appear have been taken out of use having not worked for some time.
I heard that too, but apparently it creates a vortex that makes the middle even worse to see through.
Interesting. Some work colleagues and I hired an ICE MG ZS last year which has the exact same infotainment. Colleague attempted to use the sat nav, which took more than 5 minutes to put the destination postcode in, it then crashed within 30 seconds of setting off, and stayed in it's "crashed" state for the remainder of the 3 day trip, but Apple Car Play still worked pert.
I still use my 2008 Alfa Romeo sat nav where you have to enter the house number, name and town before the postcode. It is slow and the maps are out of date but it works fine. It is not intuitive, you need to learn how to operate it but same can be said for most car infotainment systems pre-apple car play/android auto.
The issue with the old MG system is that the screen is extremely laggy. So to type in a post code takes nearly a minute, and you get the finger press registering on the wrong thing due to screen lag etc, so you press what you think you should to "search" or whatever for the postcode you've finally entered, then the screen updates and you've actually pressed "cancel" or something daft.
Thats how Del Boy became a millionaire!
Absolutely agree that charging stations are thinly-spread at present but that will surely improve. My car (Land Rover Discovery Sport PHEV) has an associated app. that tells me where charging points are available, and they are very sparse still in some areas.
Whilst not directly linked to EV's and a global figure rather than UK only this makes for interesting reading in the date of future new renewable generation:
'Extraordinary new phase' of renewable energy as Ukraine war accelerates shift from fossil fuels, energy leader says
Experts celebrate "a new energy security age" driven by renewable energy boom, in spite of huge investment plans by oil and gas companies.news.sky.com
It goes on to say:
Both of these, if they come to pass, would be significant. Although there's still a long way to go to get to where we need to be.
For how many hours ?
