This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying

Strong demand for parts / batteries for EVs, but very little supply. Hence high prices generally. I.e. I could only find one BMW i3 for parts in the country. Trainor's in the North nor Kilcock had one and neither had the biggest EV only dismantler (also in the North)

If you want a good chance of a bargain, you need to be ready to purchase immediately when one comes up!

There's still the Offaly high mileage one for €13k asking and there's one in Cavan, price just dropped to €13k

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/hyundai-ioniq-2017/34296679

Personally I would have a friendly chat with @zg3409 to see will he chop off a few bob and buy his car as it is the nicest of them all and was well minded with preventative maintenance done that most owners don't do or don't even know about. It looks like he's too modest to put the link up himself so I'll do that 😀

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/hyundai-ioniq-28kwh-electric/34597512

I remember from the early days in Ioniq forums that people tested that and on a good day in summer (basically ideal circumstances) they got about 250km at 100km/h. In winter a lot less though, you won't make 200km. Still very good though given the battery is only 28kWh (available), the car is extremely efficient and very aerodynamic

Real range is an average for average use in an average country in average weather.

@homah_7ft asked for range in very specific circumstances, namely at 100km/h in Ireland. I had mine for 3 years and compared my data with many hundreds of other people that incidentally had very similar experiences to what I had. At some point we had over 50 Ioniq 28kWh owners in the Ioniq thread here on boards.ie alone. And I base my advice on all that. But sure what would we know ;-)

Hills were not mentioned by the guy asking the question. Or bad weather, or winter temps, etc.

Ioniq will do 180km at 120km/h (16kWh / 100km) and 250km at 100km/h (11kWh / 100km) in perfect weather at constant speeds on the flat. I stand by that. Obviously driven to empty not having some sort of buffer at hand that distorts any comparison. But that's for an experienced and smooth EV driver (not using hypermiling techniques), not driven by a crude tool like cruise control. Also when the car was new, early Ioniqs are now nearly 7 years old, so will have some range limitations

A dude in Germany got 433km out of Ioniq with 3.5% SOC remaining (iirc) while hypermiling the car on public country roads. NEDC 280km, WLTP and EPA about 200km. I wish I had held onto mine for a few months longer to prove to some doubting Thomasses that it can easily do 300km range in Ireland in summer when driving gently on country roads. I replaced mine with a first gen Tesla Model S performance which uses at least 50% more electricity - if taking it handy 😂