Pro's and con's for buying an electric vehicle

You asked how it was unknown

Oops I thought this was about EVs, will remove my information.

and you did not answer the question

Why would you think that you would have to replace a complete battery, they are modular and the likes of a Nissan Leaf has 48 modular cells, so faulty ones only can be replaced.

To replace a complete battery pack, Nissan says compare the cost to replacing an engine, very expensive doing it that way. But you can lease rather than buy.

Nissan Leafs in my daughters taxi firm has been known to reach 174,000 miles on the same battery pack, so quite reliable. LINK HERE

Battery pack guaranteed for 8 years, leasing possible, and as battery technology gets better the battery modules can be replaced in the car to keep it up to date.

Just seen your other thread.

As I said at the beginning, not for us until things improve, but it's nice to know and understand how things work etc. With cars having been around for soooooooo long you tend to know how things work, costs of parts, servicing etc, this to me is different. Did not know about battery modules etc, so I have learnt something, thank you.

You're welcome

Certainly would not make financial sense for us at the moment, and probably never will. Our second car is a 3 year old petrol Yaris that we have had from new. Current mileage 10,000. We are about to make the final payment on the zero percent deal and it will then be ours to do with as we wish. As it has 2 years left on the warranty, only costs about £500 a year in fuel and £30 VED, plus of course servicing, MOT and insurance, we will almost certainly keep it until 5 years old. At that stage we may go down to the one car, the XTrail tow car. Depending on our circumstances at the time.

We have only 2 electric car charging points in our town, both in a Lidl car park, with a parking limit of 2 hours max. , and its nowhere near the town centre. Number of times I've seen them being used - zero..Number of other charging points within 45 miles.. zero.

Not practical around here under any circumstances at the moment, so I'll stay with our little diesel Polo until electric cars become viable.

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