>> Was it that the financial sums didn't add up, or was the range too short
>> for the use you were putting it to? Or a bit of both?
My order of priority was always the money, then the greenery bits.
When I had the Zoe the EV world was different. The car was cheap as buttons. Public charging was a nuisance and very slow, but free. Given it was such a nuisance, free was the right price.
Today, the cars are no longer cheap as buttons. All the super deals to get you into an EV are long gone.
Public charging, at least around here, has not improved one billionth of a jot. There are broken chargers still, some of which I reported as broken literally years ago and was told "next month" for fixing, and no new ones.
The chargers that do work are generally no longer free. The prices asked sometimes exceed the equivalent cost in petrol.
The motorway chargers are no longer free.
The range is barely enough for my needs even on the most expensive car.
The MG for example, has a range of 150 advertised. Let's be really generous and assume that to be true, though I bet that's best case. So that's 75 miles out, then you need to find a charger and hope it's not blocked by someone or in use already and hope it's working and then pay and wait and wait and wait, so you can get home.
We do loads of day trips where that wouldn't work, either because we are going further than that, or because there simply are no chargers near where we are going, or because who wants that hassle anyway?
So EV is firmly in second car local runabout territory and we don't have a use for a second car.
For us, at present, an affordable EV no longer works.
I can see that for those without those constraints and requirements, and for whom the novelty hasn't worn off, an EV is just fine.
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