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new2me

was thinking of buy a golf hybrid car, it was 2017 golf GTE s model but was told that in a few years it wont be worth much and i should buy a fully electric golf iinstead

Gumbo

Buy any car today. Any make, any model, and fuel.
In a few years, it won’t be worth much anyway.

A car is a purchase, not an investment.

goz83

new2me wrote: »

was thinking of buy a golf hybrid car, it was 2017 golf GTE s model but was told that in a few years it wont be worth much and i should buy a fully electric golf iinstead

How about you tell us about your driving and maybe we can advise you of what would suit you better.

What is your each way commute to work?

Percentage motorway/national/town roads.

How often would you drive further (Dublin - Galway for example).

What is max budget?

NIMAN

Was this car in Ireland?
If so, could you provide the link to it?

new2me

was uk car, i drive about 20k per year, 25 per cent motorway miles

i know cars are not an investment but dont want to lose heaps on the hybrid if the fully electric car is way more popular with people

Gumbo

new2me wrote: »

was uk car, i drive about 20k per year, 25 per cent motorway miles

i know cars are not an investment but dont want to lose heaps on the hybrid if the fully electric car is way more popular with people

In a few years time, both be worth nothing anyway?
I'm missing what you are trying to achieve here?

new2me

new2me wrote: »

was uk car, i drive about 20k per year, 25 per cent motorway miles

i know cars are not an investment but dont want to lose heaps on the hybrid if the fully electric car is way more popular with people

For an EV the daily distance is the one that matters and whether you have a garage or a driveway where a charge point can be installed. Is your daily drive mainly motorway or done at lower speeds? Does your place of work have chargers?

The current crop of affordable new EVs can do daily 150-250 km without needing to recharge. The likes of 2013+ LEAF does about guaranteed 100 km but you may need to drive slightly slower on motorway on cold days especially if there is headwind.

If this suits your needs there is no need to purchase a hybrid unless you do very frequent long trips as well.

NIMAN

new2me wrote: »

was uk car, i drive about 20k per year, 25 per cent motorway miles

i know cars are not an investment but dont want to lose heaps on the hybrid if the fully electric car is way more popular with people

Is the full electric WAY more popular with people though?

I wouldn't be so sure.

The sales figures aren't backing up the fact that people love fully electric cars. I'd say hybrid ones are outselling full electric, as people take away the range anxiety.

Calahonda52

NIMAN wrote: »

Is the full electric WAY more popular with people though?

I wouldn't be so sure.

The sales figures aren't backing up the fact that people love fully electric cars. I'd say hybrid ones are outselling full electric, as people take away the range anxiety.

IMO, for most hybrid buyers it has BA to do with RA, its all about the reduced taxes and ability to park for free at CPs in Dart stations and impress at the coketail parties

Just listen to the Lexus adverts, its all about power and performance, not an eco/green/treehug reference in the entire ad.

grange girl

Hi new2me, I posted back in July wondering about whether to go for hybrid or plug in hybrid if you want to look it up. I'm not sure that it provides much help in the discussion as I spent a lot of time trying to convince posters that electric wasn't for me, much as I would love it.

So I went for a second hand gold GTE (plug in hybrid). It's a lovely car, great to drive, adaptive cruise control is brill (really handy as most of my work driving is within the M50 at an average of 17kmh)and electric driving is addictive. It allows me to do most of my work driving on electric and the petrol is there for regular long trips for care of relatives. A recent trip was 6 hours driving, mostly motorway, 480kms - no way I could do that and remain sane in electric.

As other poster says, it all depends on whether you can charge at home (esp with the GTE as you won't use public charging, the car charges far too slowly) and whether you can do most of your day to day driving in electric. Then you have the petrol for stress free longer journeys. But, you are carrying round two engines, it's a heavy car, so think hard about whether it is worth carrying all that weight. If you are doing the longer journeys more regularly, an ordinary hybrid might be more suitable (much as I love mine, I'm not sure that a straight hybrid might not have been more efficient financially) but the noxious fumes were important in my decision, even on the long motorway journeys, the car claims that 25% of my travels were zero emissions.

HTH, do feel free to ask and I am happy to give my honest opinion.

new2me

new2me wrote: »

was thinking of buy a golf hybrid car, it was 2017 golf GTE s model but was told that in a few years it wont be worth much and i should buy a fully electric golf iinstead

Have you considered an i3 rex ? a lot of fun and it will take you anywhere, mine has the 33 Kwh battery. I really love it.

The Rex which is a generator only tops up the battery, it doesn't drive the wheels in any way. But basically once you got petrol in it't 8 litre tank you can drive and It's very, very convenient because you got much, much more EV range than a GTE Golf and the generator then to take over if you need it.

Range would be 150-170 kms maybe more in Summer but the difference here s that you don't have to drive much slower if at all compared to the BEV owner.

At the very least take it for a spin, a lot of people don't like the look of it but inside is a different story it's a lovely place to sit and I spend most of my time inside it than looking at it and I actually don't think it's a bad looking car.