Does anyone regret buying EV?

Yep the ICE cars since CV19 Brexit and Ukraine invasion have held their price, Saw an advert for a 2018 Audi A6 S line blk edition going for just under 40k, I got my A6 quattro for less than 40k with less mileage and was only 2 year old.

In 2022, we purchased an ID4, which has been a great car for our family. Although it has its quirks, it has been a significant improvement over our old Tiguan, especially for our trips around Leinster. We have never had to visit a public charger, and the car has over 25,000 kilometres on it. I reluctantly bought an Audi ICE early last year as our second car, but I hated it after driving the ID4 and sold it to buy a Polestar after two months. Running two EV's has been a contentious issue for some of my work colleagues and family members, and I roll my eyes at least once a day when someone brings up range, replacing the battery or infrastructure.

I agree with what most people are saying: once you buy an EV, you likely won’t go back to ICE. What the general public doesn’t understand is how home charging takes the pain out of stopping for petrol once or twice a week and is a very manageable way to keep on top of your daily routine. Although I’ve forgotten to charge the car a handful of times, I just plug in for 15 minutes at an Ionity, and I’m set for the day. EV's are also more relaxing to drive than ICE cars, especially if you’re on the road a lot. I commute 180 km a day a few days a week. I have a 67kwh battery in my car. It's plenty.

I don't regret buying an EV AT ALL......

Best thing I've ever driven.

Personal opinion obviously.

I'm glad I started paying attention to them years ago.

So I went in having had 5 to 6 years of hearing about EVs been used even on long trips.

If I was only learning about EVs now the anti EV stuff would have my head melted and I'd feel very unsure what to do.....

No regrets, not one. Not even a tiny bit.

never have to visit a petrol station, car is full every morning. Can preheat it remotely. So smooth to drive. Lots of safety technology I’ve never had in a car before.

we would never go back.

Bought an ID4 52kw in 2021 and regretted that, I know it was a City model but the range in winter just gave me anxiety! Replaced it with a 77kw ID4 a year later and am over the moon with that. However, I massively regret paying so much money for it in light of the 10k price reductions. In two years time I’m going to be left with a huge balloon payment and zero equity in the car.

Have a 191 Kona 64kwh and an ICE. Used the kona for ALL my driving up until the past few months.

I have to drive across the country about once every 4-6 weeks. The kona can do that on a single charge which is great, but id need to stop to charge on the return leg.

I found that was becoming a hassle, so I take the ICE a lot of the time now - dont need to worry about chargers being in use or broken, and having to occupy kids for 40 mins while car is charging.

Plus the kona is quite small and not as comfortable as the ICE for long drives.

This idiot consumer regrets going EV...

If your dumb enough to drop 62k on a car and replace every 12 to 18 months, you're kind of missing the whole sustainable thing!

Ha!

What a stupid story that is.

For me, driving a Model 3 RWD for two years so far has been great. Car handles really well, all the bells and whistles are there.

I've put almost 50k kms on it and thoroughly enjoyed the road trips and even in stop-go traffic on the M50 it's been better than my old car (but the M50 is still a stupid mess for traffic).

Not the main reason I got the car, but I've been keeping a track of charging expenses v fuel prices and being conservative (taking electricity prices as high and fuel prices as low), I've saved about three grand over the two years.

I just wish we could get an electric pickup truck here.

The US is literally miles ahead if us in this regard!

This is part of the problem with the frequently one sided EV debate.......

Depreciation and buyers remorse have been a thing since the car was a thing.

The difference is that with EVs you blame it on the full group of EV cars.

Whereas with ICE cars you blame it on a specific model.

So if you bought a Fiat Tempra in January 1992 brand new and decided in August 1992 that you couldn't live with it.

Then you'd accept the depreciation hit to go to say a Carina or whatever instead.

You'd only go to the journalist if there was a fault with the Tempra Fiat were not fixing.

Rather then the Tempra just not doing what you wanted in terms of let's say fuel economy or maybe your partner didn't get on with the high boot when reversing.

how did you find the crafter, its one of my maybes?

We are a two-EV household. Can't see either of us ever going with fossil power again.

I wouldn't even say I've any regrets, but one annoyance is that I wanted to buy a red Model 3 and it was above the grant threshold so about €10,000 more expensive than the grey at the time. So I bought the grey one (and love it).

However Tesla slashed their prices and if I had only waited six months, I'd have been able to affored the red one. Of course anything can happen after you buy a car to make you regret an aspect of it, and the healthiest approach is to forget about the counterfactuals and just enjoy what you have.

It took me a couple of weeks of cursing Elon Musk but I'm happy out now, LOL.

BTW, the BS in the media about EVs is really in overdrive. When we got our first one, the media was like "look at those funny people plugging in their funny cars, bless them, it'll never take off". Now that EVs are 18% of the market and the legacy automakers are struggling to keep up, it's all "One woman's insurance doubled! Diesel is actually cheaper! Oh look at this EV on fire! (totally ignoring the five-fold number of fossil cars that go on fire). This man is going back to petrol after his EV depreciated!"

All this tells me is that EVs are really upsetting some vested interests. As they say, "you only take flak when you're above the target".

...so second hand ev markets will more than likely remain challenging....

Just to point out, it should be 4c/Wh not 40c.

Very basic thing for the IT to get wrong