Thinking of moving to EV

You could easily do 100,000 km a year in an EV as long as you have a home charger. If anything it makes more sense as the fuel savings are greater

I went to EV doing about 24k kms a year but a good bit more would not have been a problem. First EV was a 58kwh Born, the 24k kms was a mix of a shortish commute, tipping around in evenings and weekends, few long trips from Dublin to Cork/Limerick/Antrim for work and a few leisure trips to Mayo too

Did have to do a top up charge on long trips but only ever for 10-15 mins or so

Moved to 77kwh car for work now and those trips in summer are doable with no stops but sometimes still do anyway. Winter will defo need a stop, but plenty of motorway chargers on those routes.

Also just have a Renault 5 since 3rd July but cant comment how it is on long drives, I expect it will be close enough to the Born.

Give a bit more usage info here and people will advise on which car to consider, loads of happy owners

But as above, home charger is absolutely key. Dont do it otherwise.

If you can cope with 4 seats, Hyundai Inster small battery would be more than sufficient and cost way less than 35k.

More practical and cheaper than a Renault 5 and very likely more practical than a 2008 Volvo C30.

See Bjorn Nyland's Banana Box findings here.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzvvWJHrBS82echMVJH37kwgjE/edit?gid=0#gid=0

I would also echo test driving a few. I moved to an EV 2 years ago through work & had the option of about 4. I test drove all of them. If you'd asked me before the test drive, I probably would have put the Ionic 5 at the top of the list. Loved the look of it etc. After the test drive, the Skoda Enyaq went straight to the top. Such a lovely drive whereas I found the double screen in the Ionic distracting & the car felt big to drive. Just like other cars - not all EV's are the same driving experience. I didn't like the multiple screens & having to go through menus to find anything. The Enyaq had some "normal" buttons for things like aircon etc.

I can’t see there being any scrappage schemes announced. There is still huge demand for cars like a cheap tax diesel Focus so you’d easily sell it for a few grand on the open market.

I agree with both of the above and I am in the comfortable position of having a valid NCT until Feb 26 and do low mileage, so I can wait.

Under normal circumstances I'd be looking to buy something 12 months old. But maybe and it is just maybe a good scrappage might make the purchase of a new EV more viable??

We'll wait and see!

”it’s soul destroying seeing what pathetic rates some companies are offering - it adds 1000s onto the purchase”

Hyundai UK currently have a 3 year 0% plus £1,000 price reduction ‘PCP’ finance deal on the Inster which is a pretty decent offer but I don’t know if this extends to Ireland? (UK prices are much higher)

“a demo model is probably where I’m hoping I could make some decent savings”
That’s what I bought in May - a 3 week old dealer ‘demo’ Inster 92/‘Elegance’ with just 400miles (670km?) on the clock and £5,000 off list.

Sadly you can’t have the Hyundai 0% on a dealer demo! And dealer finance is usually a rip-off ☹️

I'll tell you what's soul destroying, the amount of tax the Government get and people having to get loans out to pay the Big Government bill, that's soul destroying !

the cost may be a ‘fair’ market price or a ‘rip-off’, or (very occasionally) a ‘bargain’

all of us want the latter but many (most?) of us get somewhere in between the former

and it’s not easy assessing when pricing has numerous ‘add-ons’ rather than a simple OTR price - and that’s before we try to untangle the finance deal (unless it’s a straightforward 0% deal from the manufacturer, and with the bonus discount Hyundai’s is ‘fair’)

Why would he buy a new car when his old works just fine really with some minor issues it sounds like it go years more.

His fuel costs and maintenance wouldn't be a lot considering his mileage.

New car, interest, even if none + depreciation rarely makes sense. Even if I had to pay 2000 a year on fuel I wouldn't get a new car again to save maybe 1500 a year or less on petrol or diesel - any public charging fees which are expensive.

”Why would he buy a new car when his old works just fine”

Eh it just might have something to do with him expressing an interest in buying one, and opening a thread to get other posters views. 🙂

“Just saw the new Renault 5 for the first time in a showroom and am really tempted by it.”

This is the opening post

I was a big fan of the 1980s model, My Aunt had a 1981,I would have been 1 years old , it had around 45 Hp, I really loved that car.

But, the current model is so far from the original it's just a Renault 5 by name, if they followed the Motorbike trend of reviving old bikes into what we call modern retros , think Kawasaki W800, Meguro S1, Honda GB350s , Royal Enfiels Classic 350 , the list goes on. Same could be done with cars except manufacturers feel they have to load the car up with screens and tech and the more the better, I don't see it that way. Tech for the sake of tech.

A petrol version should have been an option with a proper retro interior, a lot closer to the original, they could still include all the legally required EU useless bollocks tech.

The Mini being a good example of what can be achieved.

The Honda Supercub is still on sale, the supercub was introduced in I think 1956 and is the Worlds largest selling automobile. The 2nd is a Toyota corolla.