EV purchase - lower end of market (Nissan/Hyundai)

[Bobtherallyfan]

Why not save yourself a ton of money and simply buy something like a Citigo? Bought ours three years ago for £6K , £20 per year road tax, £90 insurance and does 65mpg in its sleep. Brilliant little runaround car.

[essayer]

aestetix1 said:

Might make sense to do it the other way around. Get an EV for your main car, get a cheap ICE for a secondary one. You will save a lot of fuel.

This was us; diesel for the long trips, EV for round town. Ended up using the EV all the time - the diesel went back well under the mileage on the lease.

Now we have an EV for the long trips/round town and another EV for round town

[SpeckledJim]

Kia Niro

Left for a weekend away on Saturday morning. 300 miles showing. 150 miles done, 150 remaining on arrival.

3 hours on a granny charger at the destination. c.7kWh added.

Left for home yesterday with 180 miles showing, got home with 30 miles remaining.

We didn't stop en route in either direction, but if we had then it would have taken just a few minutes to add that 7kWh.

This sort of trip isn't realistic in an early Leaf, but daily motoring most certainly is.