I'll preface this by saying I own a 12 year old diesel, but I have driven more modern cars, both ICE and EV.
Because heavy cars are not nice to drive? More body roll through corners not very dynamic
This hasn't been my experience, personally. Most of my driving is on country lanes so handling is usually very noticeable as well. I'm not sure that the latest and greatest EV will quite beat the latest and greatest ICE sports car, but 99.9% of the population aren't buying these.
They have less range than an ICE
This one I agree with. Unless you spend a huge sum of money on a very long range EV. It is why when I bought this diesel I didn't instead opt for a second-hand EV. As technology advances, this one will sort itself out over time though. In addition to that, not many people are
regularly doing super long drives. I'm also of the opinion that people ought not to do such lengthy drives without rest breaks anyway. HGV drivers must take a 45 minute break every 4.5 hours. That's enough to do around 300mi, and 45m is plenty of time to get an EV back up to a decent charge. I have done 7h+ non-stop drives but in hindsight I'd call it irresponsible and I don't do them now. It is still a
bit of an issue for me because I mainly drive to hyper rural places with sparse charging infra. That said, I would still consider a more expensive long range model.
you cannot use heating in winter because it uses too much power
Never heard an actual EV owner complain about this, and if the school drop-off/pick-up where I used to live was anything to go by, plenty of EV drivers managed to sit in their car in winter for 20 minutes with the heating and radio on just fine.
The boot space is reduced compared to ICE as the space is taken up by the big heavy batteries.
On some models, but there's also plenty of models where the boot space is retained or even improved compared to the equivalent ICE model. Funnily enough, the primary reason I bought the car I did was because of the superior boot space, especially compared to a lot of modern SUVs. I'd still consider an EV.
Heavy cars wear tyres and brakes more quickly, that's just physics. More weight on the tyre material and more car to stop which puts more strain on the brakes.
Well there's two sides to this. Yes, greater weight means more force required to stop/slow down, which affects both brakes and tyres. But EVs don't rely solely on traditional hydraulic braking, they also use regenerative braking, which in turn reduces wear on brakes. Given how long tyres and brakes last and how cheap they are, I can't imagine the cost difference over the course of say 100k miles or 10 years is really that significant in either direction.
You are paying more money for a compromised car. There is not an EV I would willingly buy in the market right now even if I had the money for one. They are dull heavy uninspiring cars to drive. There are a few brand new ICE cars I would buy however.
Purely subjective, but some of the EVs I've driven have been great. Also to be perfectly honest, the majority of drivers in the UK are buying cars as utility vehicles to commute, go to the shops, or visit family and friends; they're less concerned about how rally the car feels on the back roads.
This is before you get to slow charging, public chargers that are more expensive than petrol.
Similar to the range aspect, this is something which will improve over time. As LAs install more affordable slow chargers for overnight charging, and as competition drives down fast charging prices, and hopefully as grants are introduced for home charger installations, these will be less of a concern. The charging technology is only going to get better. And realistically we have to bear in mind that we've been perfecting ICEs for about a century, while mainstream EV adoption isn't even a decade old. The technology is in relative infancy compared to ICEs, and is improving at rapid rates. A simple example is the availability of chargers, which has grown exponentially (literally exponentially, not just using the word for emphasis) over the past decade.
There is literally zero reason for me to even consider EVs right now. The cars need to get a lot better. They only make sense as a second car if you live in a big house with a driveway and cheap home charging.
I am not against them in concept, my local bus route has converted to EVs and they are fantastic.
I know anecdotally someone who has just bought a used 3.0L Jaguar to replace their EV because it is cheaper to run and they're not paying leasing costs
Sounds like the issue there was leasing vs cash purchase. Though it does depend
which Jag exactly!
Anecdotally, I know plenty of people who have EVs as their main or only cars. Some are travelling salespeople with a company car scheme Tesla; others are people who live on my street and the vast majority of their journeys are heading to work and back or doing their weekly food shop, for which the EV is way cheaper than an ICE to run.
I didn't really see anything else.
