Lexus UX 300e

[Snow and Rocks]

Luke. said:

You can pick these for for less than £19k now.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401225...

Very tempting as a little local runaround. Would only ever charge at home. And range not an issue.

That's quite tempting for local running around. 10 year warranty and lexus reliability means it'll surely be pretty hassle free. Certainly seems to make more sense than some of the budget new EVs on the market.

[325iMSport]

Luke. said:

You can pick these for for less than £19k now.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401225...

Very tempting as a little local runaround. Would only ever charge at home. And range not an issue.

Yeah saw this the other day. I might look to replacing our e-Golf in the future if prices keep dropping.

[325iMSport]

325iMSport said:

Yeah saw this the other day. I might look to replacing our e-Golf in the future if prices keep dropping.

Actually might give it a miss as the range is only slightly better than my e-Golf (heat pump model).

[samoht]

Luke. said:

You can pick these for for less than £19k now.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401225...

Very tempting as a little local runaround. Would only ever charge at home. And range not an issue.

£19k seems quite a lot of money for just a local runaround, considering that if range and charging aren't an issue you could spend a lot less on an EV, or for the same money you could get a 64 kWh Niro (or Kona/Soul) which would handle longer trips.

I guess it'd make sense if you really want Lexus quality and are happy to pay a bit more for that in an electric runaround.

[swisstoni]

They are pretty rare - about 2000 of them knocking about.

[levensnevel]

As a replacement of our my '20 Hyundai Kona 64 kWh which was totalled earlier we got ourselves a my '20 Lexus UX 300E 'executive' [which is, except for the sunroof, similar to the 'Takumi' version in the UK] 10 days ago.
Seems we entered a completely new world after having a Hyundai Kona EV as runaround for 2 years / 12,500 miles.

For our fuel economy, check out

https://www.autoweek.nl/verbruik/31944/lexus-ux-30...

it's in Dutch, but you will get the gist.

Edited by levensnevel on Wednesday 29th May 06:49

Edited by levensnevel on Wednesday 29th May 06:58

Edited by levensnevel on Wednesday 29th May 06:58

[levensnevel]

swisstoni said:

They are pretty rare - about 2000 of them knocking about.

suppose that they are currently even rarer in the Netherlands.
Some data crunching revealed that early May 2024 just 250 UX 300E have a Dutch registration .
In perspective: that's less than 1% of the number of Tesla Model Y's with a Dutch registration

[swisstoni]

In 3 years, living just outside London, I have probably only seen 10 of them.