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Rapid depreciation needs to be taken into account
Also insurance and tires. Plus be prepared to wait for parts on any repair.
Rapid depreciation happens with all new cars. 40% or 50% in 3 years is and always has been, the norm. Buy something that is 3 or 4 years old, regardless of it’s fuel type.
Then ownership is pretty much, fuel, service and insurance. A simple set of maths that we can all calculate.
@@mikadavies660 Yes thats true but here in the UK depreciation is significantly higher on EV’s .. 50% within 2 years is typical and higher for some models. Favourable tax laws for business means the owners are buying EVs and these are now flooding the used market outstripping demand hence the rapid depreciation.
@@goonmerchantisn’t the best way to save money on your car to not change it every few years but run it for as long as possible? In this scenario depreciation doesn’t really matter
@@CuriousGuyHobbiesagreed on the parts, we had a recall on the ICCU in our ioniq 5 that took about a month to get parts, however Hyundai gave us a BMW iX while we waited so wasn’t a problem. Insurance is more expensive, but not excessive, saving on fuel costs easily out weighs this. We haven’t found tyre wear any worse than previous cars, got 60k miles on the first set of tyres on the ioniq
Thank you Nicola for this excellent and clear explanation 👍
I calculated my MPG in my Kona EV, and was absolutely dumbfounded, if I charged my car for the cost of a gallon of petrol, based on my average miles per kWh 4.5 miles, my car would do 378 miles per gallon.
That’s based on petrol at £5.86 a gallon and my charging rate on Octopus intelligent go at 7p per kWh, 1 gallon would buy me 84kWh
sshhhhh….big oil will be get mad at grounded logic.
ev’s are getting more and more complex service cost more and more 🙁
Doubt that… My service contract for my EQC Mercedes is £27/mth. This is my 7th Merc and my diesel and petrol Mercs were between £50 and £70 per month. Strangely, my insurance also dropped when I got the EQC…? But that is just weird. Monthly fuel has dropped from £200/mth to £35 but I am lucky enough to charge at home.
That is some baseless nonsense. Due to going down market and reducing cost. BEVs are getting SIMPLER than their luxury versions.
In the 3 years I’ve had my EV it has cost the grand total of £270 in servicing costs (that was main dealer too)
Extremely misleading, if there is an issue with the battery pack then the car owner is royally screwed with the repair cost as it can take almost half the cost of the car in some cases.
And how often is there an issue with battery packs, given that they have guarantees something like 8 years or 100k miles?
What if there’s an issue with the petrol engine faulted?
@@nicolacubeddu6897 First of all on an ICE car they would just change the part which failed in the engine which is way less costly.
@@karlwest437 While it is not often, it does happen from time to time and the car owners are not happy when it does , due to the astronomical costs of replacing the battery. Also EV manufacturers will find every loop hole in the warranty to avoid paying for a replacement.
@@mihirchitnis905just spreading fud, might as well worry about getting struck by lightning, do you ever comment about how often petrol engines break? That’s just as likely
‘Fewer moving parts!’ You bad girl!
A common mistake
Repairable? Expensive, if you cam find anyone to repair it. Insurance is higher too. Resale as it approaches end of its warranty, doubtful.
My insurance on an ID7 was about £30 a year more to insure than a comparable Passat.
Oh and I got it repaired just fine. Most things are the same as a petrol cR
We’ve had an Ioniq 5 for 4 years and a second hand Peugeot e208 for the last 2 years, we’ve used a couple of garages, none have turned us away or said they can’t service either car.
That is just baseless assertions with zero proof. bikeman123 is an alien from Pluto.
I used to buy cars for commercial fleets, and very often the higher priced car would work out as the cheapest to own over its operational life — the Total Cost of Acquisition is a real thing.
10 years on needs a new battery, makes the car scrap, as we know the battery isn’t recyclable
Yeah none of that is true.
Two sentences, two things wrong
Rage baiting. Ignorance is always louder than learned
Stop with the BS nonsense. Rav4 EV on average survived 17 years with a NiMH battery with not active thermal control. Cooled and HEATED lithium ion EV batteries are not much better. Fact is decade old Tesla Model S are showing surprisingly good battery health. Your fear mongering defies reality.
What about when charging at home is not an option. How much more do public charging cost ?
I charge publicly on lamp post charges and similar. It’s about half the price of petrol that way. It’s a 10th if you can charge at home.
Level 3 DC Fast Chargers are expensive, they are not supposed to be the primary method for charging.
Battery Degradation Is the Top Loss Which is Not in engine 😅
Not really a thing any more
My EV costs around one and a half pence per mile to fuel. 1000 miles for fifteen quid.
In France on holiday, came off the ferry at Cherbourg and charged at a 360kw charger for just 25¢ a KW doesn’t get any cheaper! Dogs were glad of a walk too.
That’s no an acronym
Why are they so expensive if less moving parts? All the savings list are, you could, could, could?? The ev joke!
Batteries, and they are now cheaper than they were. The new BMW iX3 is less than the outgoing model, yet has a 108kWh battery and more powerful computer. TCO means paying less for running the car. You want to be owned by Big Oil, by all means pretend kicking the habit is a joke. It’s on you.
Why are they so expensive if less moving parts? All the savings list are, you could, could, could?? The ev joke!
Owner and user for 6years now. The number of owners like me being able to charge (and invest 40k on solar) at home, pay 60k on 2 electric cars, and stop each 160km to refill, with no company car, and to pay 30c at home but 60c on road. Sorry still only for few. Most my friends are in an downtown appart and no charging. Or means to invest. Hardly and slowly, like petrol cars in the beggining.
Insurance is the biggest sticking point, most insurers are scared of EV and the prices are much higher against equivalent ICE.
Massive insurance costs and depreciation. It’s hard to make the sums add up when comparing equivalent EV and ICE cars. I’ve tried, but EV costs never add up when you try to just buy it as a car that suits you, rather than being an EVangelist.
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