What Hybrid/ Electric car to get

Laura2021

Hi I started a thread before about getting a Bmw/Audi but they are not worth the prices for the year and mileage so I have decided with how everything is going with fuel only going to get worse its time to get a Hybrid/ Electric vehicle. A family friend just got a brand new Toyota Rav4 I test drove it and it was great to drive I know Toyota have always been great cars.

I'm just wondering would anyone have any other recommendations on other Hybrid/ Electric cars to look at thanks for the help.

fryup

i'd go for the Yaris hybrid, the latest one looks gorgeous a world apart from the old one

or as an alternative to electric you could go - LPG - the Dacia Sandero Stepway Bi:fuel

Laura2021

Need something a bit bigger then a yaris, Top of the list at moment is a Toyota Rav4 as I have test drove one but maybe others will know more about other hybrid/ Electric to get from there experience?

The Toyota rav4 is pretty fast aswell with 218hp which I like.

fryup

starting at €42k for a new Rav4 is eye watering

celtic_oz

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4225153-evs-oil-and-ice-impact-2023-and-beyond

Tipping point when EVs are cheaper than ICE ( petrol/diesel/hybrid) is projected to be 2025/6 at which time those legacy cars will plummet in value as the new green taxes come in to pay for revenue lost to lower tax receipts from those fuels.

You may not be able to affordably drive one into a city with congestion charges ( London currently has a congestion Charge of £15 daily )

 Buy electric if you can, if you can't then wait until you can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYVhk-_vqvc

Laura2021

So go full Electric and forget Hybrid? Im looking at Electric aswell just not sure what to go for.

NIMAN

What budget are you working with?

What is your commuting distances?

Have you a driveway for a charger install?

alan partridge aha

On an 8k budget, you won't buy much. Maybe one of those awful looking Prius.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118779074#Comment_118779074

Recently sold a 2014 Tekna Leaf for around that, complete with charger.

Would be a great car for someone driving around a town, doing school runs, to the shops etc.

Would be a terrible car for someone commuting 100km to work. We need to know what the car will be used for.

Larbre34

It has to be said too, older self-charging hybrids are an unknown quantity, who knows where the catastrophic failure will come, far exceeding the value of the car to put right.

Laura2021

No budget as going for finance but the new Toyota Rav4 is around 42k so I will say around that doesn't have to be brand new maybe a year or two old . I drive all over Dublin North ,South and City centre. And yes I have driveway for charger.

I know the government give you a grant for that

celtic_oz

Cheap : https://www.mg.ie/model/new-mg-zs-ev

not as cheap

https://www.hyundai.ie/new-kona/

https://www.kia.com/ie/new-cars/e-niro/discover/

https://www.volkswagen.ie/en/new-cars/id3.html

Middle of the road :

https://www.volkswagen.ie/en/new-cars/ID4.html?tc=sem-model-id4-brand

https://www.hyundai.ie/ioniq5/

https://www.kia.com/ie/new-cars/ev6/discover/

Expensive

https://www.tesla.com/en_ie/inventory/new/m3

Laura2021

I was looking at older bmw / Audis for that price but as I said what's the point as they are over priced now and with the way fuel is now better off going hybrid/ Electric and getting moneys worth

Laura2021

I work in construction travelling around different site's so driving all over the place I use the car on weekends aswell so I'm not using it just to pop over to shop or school runs I don't have kids. I don't want a small liter car.

bazz26

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118779169#Comment_118779169

No budget, how does that work? Surely you need to know what you are spending in order to know what you can afford to borrow and repay? If you don't then you shouldn't be borrowing anything to be honest. Judging by your previous threads here you don't seem to have much of a plan, you talk about buying a car, mention finance regularly but you need to know how much you can afford to pay back on a loan if your borrowing money.

Also just so you know as it wasn't mentioned, most of the new cars mentioned in earlier posts are not available to buy right now if you walked into a dealership. Bar maybe the MG.

AMKC

@OP How about a new Citroen E-C4,

https://www.citroen.ie/new-cars-and-vans/citroen/citroen-c4.html

alternatively if it is not big enough for you or the range is not long enough the new Citroen C5-X PHEV will be out soon.

If you can wait for a year the new Megane-E Tech will be out and should be in your budget. I think they are availible to order now.

As for getting a new MG unless it is in the showroom dream on they are all delayed too by at least 4 months maybe even longer if you were to order one now.

Laura2021

Not going to into detail lets just say I can afford 1k a month on a financed car doesn't mean I want to spend that much on one there a good deals . As I have said Toyota rav4 is around 42k so I'm sticking at that price or lower in hybrid / Electric car.

Have seen a good few hybrid Toyota rav4 for sale

Killer K

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118779160#Comment_118779160

Unknown quantities similar to older EVs?

celtic_oz

if you really want toyota, put a deposit on one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TR-lxehfhs

Leonard Hofstadter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118779160#Comment_118779160

They're a very well known quantity, Toyota's self-charging hybrids have proven themselves to be extraordinarily reliable.... even more so than their ICE cars.

Plus because they still have real engines, you can use them just like you can use a proper car (no range anxiety, hassle about public charges, rapid chargers, slow chargers, fast chargers, blah blah blah) except that you're making a considerable saving in fuel costs, especially around town. The fact that they are considerably nicer than equivalent diesel to drive is just the icing on the cake really.