The cheapest commute

MrMusician18

I'm moving job and I'm trying to figure out what might be my cheapest commute. The journey is 115km return, half motorway/half R road. I don't have home charging as I rent an apartment, but will at work. I'll be in the office roughly 240 days a year.

My options are to drive our diesel, get public transport €1300/yr or go electric. Another consideration is that I don't currently have my own insurance policy, though I've been driving named for 14 years.

Any ideas, would an old leaf 24 work?

jprboy

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Any ideas, would an old leaf 24 work?

Not without home charging.

biko

Public transport is cheapest for you.

ELM327

Rule out any EV except kona/niro ev/tesla at that commute, especially without home charging

Gumbo

Public transport will be the cheapest allowing for no car, no insurance, no tax outlays.
Diesel will be less stressful considering the state of our public transport (Depending on commute)
L24 will do about 120km average so even leaving work with a full charger, you are on the technical limit of getting home and getting back into work the next day and the last thing you need to be doing is requiring a stop to fast charge every day as it gets tiresome.

slave1

Leaf30 will do that for you, you may need to take her handy and stick to 100kms/hr on motorway.
However I would not advise you to go this route, in a few years time your work chargers will be choc-a-bloc as more and more employees move into the EV world

KCross

MrMusician18 wrote: »

I'm moving job and I'm trying to figure out what might be my cheapest commute. The journey is 115km return, half motorway/half R road. I don't have home charging as I rent an apartment, but will at work. I'll be in the office roughly 240 days a year.

My options are to drive our diesel, get public transport €1300/yr or go electric. Another consideration is that I don't currently have my own insurance policy, though I've been driving named for 14 years.

Any ideas, would an old leaf 24 work?

Like everyone else said, not without home home charging or a long range EV like a Model 3, Kona, Niro etc.

Any chance you could get a home charger (or even a 3 pin socket) installed where you park or is that completely out of the question? If you could even get access to a 3 pin socket it would open up alot of options for you.

MrMusician18

KCross wrote: »

Like everyone else said, not without home home charging or a long range EV like a Model 3, Kona, Niro etc.

Any chance you could get a home charger (or even a 3 pin socket) installed where you park or is that completely out of the question? If you could even get access to a 3 pin socket it would open up alot of options for you.

I'm planning on buying a house much closer to work when I'm settled into the new job in a year or two so I'd be reluctant to have to invest in an outdoor socket installed in a rental as I'll never see a "return", if you get me.

Not that I think I can anyway, I've a first floor apartment some 20m across grass to my parking spot. The cabling would be awkward and expensive even if I got permission.

KCross

I'd say hold off on an EV until you move house then reassess.