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where do you live, where owning an electric car in your lifetime seem like a distant dream? and why do you want to own one so badly?
by C7E0F338E42448 12y ago
where do you live, where owning an electric car in your lifetime seem like a distant dream?
and why do you want to own one so badly?
- davman 12y agoWell I live in the UK, I've specced out a mid range Model S with a few optional extras so this comes in at £67000. Lets assume by some miracle I manage to save up a £7000 deposit, this leaves me with some £60000 to find. At a quick google around its pretty hard to get car finance over £25000, but lets have a crack at it and try autotrader. They'll only let me borrow £50k over 60 months which gives me monthly payments of £958. My monthly take home is £1800, so that leaves me with £852 to play with, my rent is £450 and my council tax is £101, so now we're down to £301 and I haven't paid for my utilities yet. So an electric car in my lifetime (or at least one with a useful range like the Teslas) is a distant dream. At least until the Model 3.
- outworlder 12y agoAre you working in IT?
- akadruid1 12y agoGive it a few years, things are changing very fast. Useful electric cars will be affordable in 20 years for sure; Tesla seem to be aiming much sooner. Anyway, even if nothing changes, in 20 years your £67K Model S will be on autotrader for £6K or less. You can pick up a 20 year Ferrari 456 GT for the price of a new Ford Focus and I'm sure they hold their value better than a Tesla will.
- mseebach 12y agoThat's like saying "I badly want to own a car in my lifetime", then speccing out a brand new Range Rover (think Escalade if you're american) and deciding it's impossible. The Vauxhall Ampera is £29k, you can get a used 2012 Chevy Volt from around £17k. I'm not sure how the limited lifetime of batteries will affect the used car economy, but the kind of people who buys a brand new Model S generally aren't keen on driving 10 year old cars.
- davman 12y agoI briefly considered hybrids, but the question was concerning an 'electric car', and I don't really feel like hybrids fit the brief. Like I said, this might all change with the Model 3, and I genuinely hope it does. I'm tired of driving petrol dependent cars, and I want my next new-car purchase to be fully electric.
- mseebach 12y agoHow about that, I actually thought the Ampera was a full electric, but they've thrown in a small combustion engine. They hide it well in the specs, though. Edit: You could always get a G-Wiz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REVAi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REVAi
- C7E0F338E42448 12y agohttp://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/postcode/l331ze/radius/1500/fuel-type/electric/onesearchad/new/quicksearch/true http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/postcode/l331ze...
- davman 12y agoI need to do more research on the Leaf but yeah that is a close contender. The Zoe is a problem. I love Renault cars, my Clio was my favourite thing in the world, but the Zoe has DRM in the battery which you have to rent from Renault for a fee based on your mileage, which as far as I could tell, worked out to more than I would pay in petrol. I believe, although it may have been FUD, that if you go over the mileage you have pre-arranged with Renault, they will disable your battery remotely.