Electric cars- which ones are best? experiences?

[TooLateForAName]

Interested in peoples experiences with electric cars. I'd be looking at one for a 10 mile commute for the OH.

Tell me about your experiences?

Nissan Leaf
Citroen CZero
Peugeot ion
Mitsubishi iMiev (are these 3 the same thing?)
Renault Zoe

any others?

[McWigglebum4th]

Look in readers rides as a few folk have written about their experiences

[TooLateForAName]

cheers!

[Chris71]

Not spent a huge amount of time in any, but I've driven a few including the Leaf and the Ampera. Both were thoroughly decent cars in a not-especially-exciting kind of a way. The Ampera/Volt was particularly impressive for its ride and refinement (and lack of range anxiety).

[exceed]

Drove the Zoe last week, absolutely revolutionary.

Was literally about to sign on the line but refused finance has meant that I'm just going to put cash on the i3 as I believe it'll lose the least over depreciation!

If it was finance I'd be going for the Zoe!

[purpleperil]

Thumbs up for the Ampera - have taken on a couple on lease for my business. Wouldn't consider purchase outright as expecting lots of advances in technology, but really high residuals (hence low lease cost) and low BIK tax makes them a really good company car proposition!

[TooLateForAName]

thanks.

Can I ask what it was about the Zoe that made the difference to you?

[Dr JonboyG]

I spent some time with an i-MiEV last summer: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/mitsubishis...

[anonymous-user]

This is a fairly amusing, if a little one sided, talk by Robert LLewellyn on 'lecy cars:

1.6 million barrels of misconception

[skyrover]

Tesla model S

[Pommygranite]

Scalextric. Great fun - get the back end out at every turn.

[Amateurish]

TooLateForAName said:

Interested in peoples experiences with electric cars. I'd be looking at one for a 10 mile commute for the OH.

Tell me about your experiences?

Nissan Leaf
Citroen CZero
Peugeot ion
Mitsubishi iMiev (are these 3 the same thing?)
Renault Zoe

any others?

Yes, they are the same thing. I've driven them all (and the Fluence), and my opinion would be:

1. Zoe
2. Leaf
3. Fluence
4. iMiev

Zoe and Leaf pretty similar, but I prefer the Zoe for quality of the interior and dash. Bear in mind that the Zoe is battery lease only which would put me right off. As an ownership prospect, the Leaf wins overall. Fluence is pretty poor and iMiev just awful.

The Ampera is a decent car, but a hybrid so not really comparable (like the plug-in Prius).

[Devil2575]

Max_Torque said:

This is a fairly amusing, if a little one sided, talk by Robert LLewellyn on 'lecy cars:

1.6 million barrels of misconception

That's brilliant.