Electric/Hybrid Depreciation

The technology is moving on so fast it would be a huge financial gamble to purchase a pure electric car.

Bet not many buy one a second time

The older hybrid leaf didn't have the range extenders now added to various makes of car. However they are still fuel efficient on short journeys. 

Electric cars are hugely expensive and for the most part useless to us rural folk, and by the time you payout nearly £100 a month to hire the batteries on top of the £33,000 to buy the car in the first place, that is one expensive Nissan leaf.

They need power plants to produce the supply, until they come up with the strategy for new power stations l am leaving well alone. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if a change of government took a different tack, leaving the consumer holding the baby as per usual

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As I said before to the OP,  ignore the DM. Our electric car is costing us pence to run. The battery has an 8 yr guarantee, we can go any distance using the range extender. The UK is running out of its own fossil fuels and we need to cover ourselves from being dependent on overseas suppliers. It's not us, it's future generations who need the new technologies.We also need to cut pollution for the future too.

There are further developments in  progress.

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A little off topic but I thought some of you may  be interested to see these pictures as there is a lot of interest in  electric/hybrid vehicles.

As I have said in the past I was quite involved in the introduction of hybrid buses in London, my company was the first to start using them.

The big square one on the pallet is from a Volvo chassis and was located just behind the N/S/F wheel. The other pictures are what Alexander -Dennis used and was located between the upper and lower decks at the rear.  Both were over 600  volts  and weighed just over a ton but I cant remember the AH ( it was quite high). as you can see they are basically made up from linking 1.5v cells ( think torch batteries ) in combinations of series & parallel. IIRC there are 1250 cells in a whole battery pack, a battery being made of what were called "blades" and housed in a large flat metal casing.  As well as having to be qualified as Technicians/Mechanics we also all had to do a B-Tec qualification to certify us to work on systems up to a 1000 volts DC

Hope you find it interesting.

Here's a couple more 

 

 

If batts are that heavy,if in the future there is an all electric tow car there should not be a problem with kerb weight