Cheapest 200mile EV?
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Was going to by a Polestar 2 but not sure I want to spend the 22k on one.
My commute is 90miles, but I'd like a car that can drive 200 miles on one charge (all year round) I'm case we have to charge my partners electric car one night, or the charger doesn't charge for some reason.
What's the cheapest electric car sub 50k miles that will do a reliable 200 miles?
Corsa-e for £12k only does 180 apparently so that's cutting it too close, otherwise would have just got one of them
Cheers
My commute is 90miles, but I'd like a car that can drive 200 miles on one charge (all year round) I'm case we have to charge my partners electric car one night, or the charger doesn't charge for some reason.
What's the cheapest electric car sub 50k miles that will do a reliable 200 miles?
Corsa-e for £12k only does 180 apparently so that's cutting it too close, otherwise would have just got one of them
Cheers
J1990 said:
If that's 200 miles on the motorway, year round and you're wanting to spend as little as possible then the Kona is probably the best balance.
In my opinion, your fears of not charging randomly one night are making this a far harder process than it needs to be. In the unlikely event that this happens, surely you just call at a fast charger and give it a quick bit of juice. Yes charging on the DC chargers is relatively expensive but if it's very rarely used then it'll more than be made up by the saving on depreciation by being able to spend less on a car with a smaller battery pack.
Yes that's good logic; thanks. My Mrs has an Ariya due in a couple of weeks so that'll be on the charger some nights. Maybe that can go on at the weekend as it has a massive battery and she doesn't do many miles.In my opinion, your fears of not charging randomly one night are making this a far harder process than it needs to be. In the unlikely event that this happens, surely you just call at a fast charger and give it a quick bit of juice. Yes charging on the DC chargers is relatively expensive but if it's very rarely used then it'll more than be made up by the saving on depreciation by being able to spend less on a car with a smaller battery pack.
It looks like a 64kw Kona isn't much more than the 50kw corsa, certainly much cheaper than the polestar anyway
For thread closure, I ended up buying a new 24 plate Astra EV for £21k in cobalt blue. Quite a bit different from the Polestar 2 but thought this was a bargain price. I heard these are quite efficient so hoping for that 200 mile range and a few years of warrantied commuting (albeit boring!)
raspy said:
How did you manage that when the cheapest Astra EV 24 plate with delivery miles are showing up for £27k
Pentagon Vauxhall had them for £20400 over the weekend, I paid extra for the blue. Had to be signed for Monday and registered before month end. Pentagon got a special rate with Vauxhall and passed them on to customers. It was the highest heat thread on HUKD over the weekend. Advert got pulled Monday 9am but they still honoured???Only downside is that it is in the lowest spec 'Design' which has frankly quite ugly screen/display surrounds and not the glass fronted flush screens the other specs have. Other than that spec is good. I expect the chap below you is correct - EVs not selling as fast as they are being made. Nothing to do with PCP though, I'm paying cash
Edited by Pulse00 on Tuesday 25th June 10:41
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