Does anyone regret buying EV?

No. I change cars quite regularly but have been EV since 2016 for at least one car in the household.

No is the simple answer for me. Im 2 years down the line with and ID4 followed by a Model Y. Delighted so far, being a high km a year driver. Saved just over 8k in fuel in the 2 years (Taking charging into account also). But not even accounting for servicing etc

I do have a work and home charger so this helps :) but really when you do the calculation free work charging doesn't end up being a massive gain. its all about the cheap night rate.

On the Tesla side of things its where the tech comes into its own in the car and on the APP.

If I was doing things again I would go in at a really well kept low milage 2-3 year old EV, then you miss the chunk of depreciation but still have the savings . Thats the sweet spot. This will become easier when EV market is more mature....

Yes, bought an ID3 1st, big mistake, wasn't suitable for me. Held onto it for about 6mts and 12,000km

Would it stop me buying another EV, no. It was just the wrong car, went back to petrol after that, then phev.

If you get one at a price your happy with and the range works for you without compromise, no reason not to consider one. Buying new is probably not the way to go though with prices all over the place.

Yes Cupra Born , software issues , battery modules failed , huge depreciation most main dealers wont even entertain giving a quote to trade in.

we have had 2 different audi etrons since 2020 (so 4 years), dont regret it and dont ever see myself going back to ICE, that said we live in an urban area, have always had home charging and drive at most 15,000km annually so it suits our use case very well.

how exactly did you save a fortune? Did you get your EV for free, is it a company car? are you charging for free (secretly plugged in your neighbors grid)? Not sure what EV you have but most of them cost way more to purchase than ICE cars.

I regret not buying an EV when I test drove the Ioniq in 2017. Instead I bought an ICE estate - it's okay, nothing wrong with it, we needed the space and there were no EV estates in the market for years.

I am in India this week, and drove an EV (Tata Nexon EV) for 100 km thru clogged roads with horrible stop-go traffic straight after landing here. And compared my ICE driving experience over the years, it was an absolute dream - 360 degree camera, complete full phone/navigation integration, all sort of safety bells and whistles and the car just glides along, no need to dance on the clutch pedal or change gears. Once at destination it was plugged in and it charged to full overnight. 40kwh battery, 350k range. My 100 kms driving only took 80 km off the range of the car :D.

I don't know if I can get back into driving an ICE after this week.

No regrets - No issues - nicer to drive, cheaper to run - however I do say to people you need to have a home charger ( at least at the moment) or perhaps an accessible work one. There is a learning curve with public charging and planning for long trips, but to be honest with the range of current cars it is a lot easier.

Originally had a 2016 24 Leaf, terrible range

Now have a 2019 Ioniq saloon, even though the battery is marginally bigger at 28kw, the range is acceptable, I generally just drive in Dublin , so the range of 200 to 240 k is suitable for me

Well spec'ed and nice to drive

I wasn't happy that the EV reduction on tolls expired recently

I am considering buying my third EV , but depreciation and software issue on newer EVS , makes me hesitate

I bought a Model 3 in late 2019 so I could run it as a company car, sold my Golf GTI that I owned personally. I had no issues with the car, but due to it losing nearly half its value by the time I sold it last month, and the Golf probably not losing any value in that 4 years judging by ads on donedeal, any savings I made by running the car through the company got wiped out by the depreciation. It possibly would have worked out cheaper to keep the golf for those 4 years, depending on repair bills (I owned it less than 2 years and had already made one costly fix of €1000 to it). No massive regrets but that 0% BIK deal on EVs didn't end up being quite the saving I thought it'd be, and could easily have waited until now to make the switch. I bought another Tesla so I'm obviously happy enough with them.

bought a Plug-in Hybrid and its a great car and bought it because of the 2030 year the government wanted us all to be in electric etc , lets say they are not helping EV customers with reduced grants and also hiking tolls etc , im tempted to go balls to wall and splurge on a brand new VW GTI

Cupra Bjorn is a relatively new car, I would have thought any battery issues would have been covered under warranty?

It was .

Hydrogen is interesting, and I work with some hydrogen buses - but in my opinion it'll suffer the same problem as LPG - nowhere to refuel. Garages won't install hydrogen pumps until there's a significant demand for it, and motorists won't buy until there somewhere to refuel. Hydrogen will have a good chance for something like buses, trains maybe even planes - as they'll have a set route, and a defined depot to go to; so consumption and fueling times can be planned, and infrastructure put in

There is a person on youtube that deals with them a lot. He does not paint a flattering picture of most and addresses the things I often wondered about such as heating and air con effects on range.

He approaches EV's in a very practical way and includes irritations and limitations I would not have thought of prior to buying.

I can't recollect the title of his video's but a Google of youtube, EV's and milk floats should hit the spot.

It's well worth checking, although like a lot of youtube stuff he can ramble a bit.