Affordable large EV?
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My wife has recently taken delivery of a Skoda Kodiaq, a great big 7 seat SUV with loads of kit which, on first impressions, is really impressive.
It’s leased, approx costs are £900 initial payment with £290 monthly payments. 2 year deal, 12k miles per year. All prices are VAT inclusive.
Are there any large EVs around at anything like the cost of the above Skoda? Appreciate that there will be a fuel saving in running an EV.
It’s leased, approx costs are £900 initial payment with £290 monthly payments. 2 year deal, 12k miles per year. All prices are VAT inclusive.
Are there any large EVs around at anything like the cost of the above Skoda? Appreciate that there will be a fuel saving in running an EV.
Basically, NO.
The only 7 seater EVs are:
a) the Tesla Model X - a truly amazing vehicle, with corresponding amazing monthly prices.
b) the Nissan e-NV200 Combi, or slightly plusher Evalia. It's a long-in-the-tooth van-based thing, but is very practical as long as the 120 mile range suits you.
The only 7 seater EVs are:
a) the Tesla Model X - a truly amazing vehicle, with corresponding amazing monthly prices.
b) the Nissan e-NV200 Combi, or slightly plusher Evalia. It's a long-in-the-tooth van-based thing, but is very practical as long as the 120 mile range suits you.
As above, not many 7 seater EV yet
But you'll never get a Model X down to the Skoda though
. Man maths could make it work against a Q7 for example.
nuttywobbler said:
Are there any large EVs around at anything like the cost of the above Skoda? Appreciate that there will be a fuel saving in running an EV.
Not just fuel savings. Taxes and maintenance should generally be cheaper as well.But you'll never get a Model X down to the Skoda though
. Man maths could make it work against a Q7 for example.ZesPak said:
anonymous said:
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Iirc it's a 40k USD base price.Don't forget that USD prices (because of their different VAT's in all states) are excl VAT.
By the time that would ever get here (if it does) that's going to be at least 40k GBP.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/f...
ETA the pricing they mooted does sound a lot less than what you've seen but it does 'feel' too cheap!
No doubt one to watch to see where it really ends up.........
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 8th December 12:51
anonymous said:
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I have long held a candle for Fisker, but isn't this the second, or even third attempt at a 'launch' for the business?I loved their original car, but the market, for whatever reason didn't. I love his designs, but sadly we have only really got Tesla as a successful, fully ev, from the ground-up, established company. Rivian promise something soon (so fingers crossed), but Nikola, Lucid Air and Fisker seem still like 'possible', not really 'will be'.
Perhaps, we need the mainstream companies to really start launching concepts the way they did for ice vehicles?
anonymous said:
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That does sound a lot less than what I've read.Still... as the poster above, it's hard to give any credence to Fisker at this point.
Witchfinder said:
You can order the Skoda Enyaq IV at the moment. Whether that meets your definition of "affordable" or not is another matter.
That Kodak actually looks like a very interesting car for the public. A large-ish SUV sub 40k EUR?They won't be able to make them fast enough.
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