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

You have 350 miles or 48 hours to report any faults. It only applies to cars that come with mechanical reports.

I did bring it home on the ferry. Its sitting outside my house still waiting to be collected. Luckily I didn’t pay the VAT or customs otherwise it would have cost me dearly.

They are quite a nice drive and very powerful with 400bhp. High spec too, but they are very crashy with the big wheels. Not comfortable at all on country roads.

YouTuber Martin Karel has some good videos on the ID3 experience.

For all the niggles. It's still a lot of EV bang for the buck. More space in the rear then many of the competition in it's class. If was doing a lot of miles and public charging enroute I certainly consider one. Decent drive imo. I don't do many long drives and the early touch screens would drive me mad. It's was on my shortlist.

If you don't need long range (as in 50-80km is enough for daily needs) and you don't mind the power hungry heater a Mitsubishi i-miev / Citroen C-zero / Peugeot ion might be worth a look (though quite rare). Old, cheap, reliable and feckin tiny, like really narrow so can be parked anywhere. plenty of room for two car seats in the back. You would probably want a home charger though to top it up every night cause the range is small. Our 2012 gives us about 60km in winter with some heater use to 85km in summer with some aircon.

For your budget, if an ID3 is too big a renault Zoe might suit, or an E-up but don't know if they come in a 5 door?

eGolf is basically a 5 seater eUp but less spartan. Only slightly smaller than a ID3. Might fit the idea she has, getting cheap now. eUPs not really that cheap. Maybe as an import. Both eUP and eGolf have two generations. First is very short range..

Mini E another small short ranger but not cheap yet. BMW i3 seem to dropping in price. The doors a faff with kids imo.

Thats like trying to predict how the wind blows. You'd have to wait and see how spin the bottle goes this week in the US..

Looking at Ireland or UK the govts are pulling back on incentivising EVs. That's really what will drive the local market.

im absolutely horrified by the depreciation on these EV's a couple of years old everytime I see these ads.

why? thats the depricaiation that was on all cars pre covid, people just forgot that.

Theres was an advantage buying new on something like PCP though as you can give it back.

VW dealers kept asking for top money right until they all dropped as much as 15k. Perhaps they and VW hadn't followed that strategy of milking it when supply was short perhaps they would have avoided creating a rollercoaster.

Dead right, I wouldn't be putting up with that **** either.