we are on our 2nd fully electric 3 years Nissan Leaf and now 2 years into an Mg ZS
We don’t have a fitted charger, we just plug into an extension lead in our garage.
We like :
Cars are nice and nippy, ride well, quiet.
Costs - missus uses the EV for her daily commute to work (10miles each way) and save quite a bit from when she used an ICE car for same journey. spend about 30 a month more on our lease than our last car - Qashqai
We dislike: range envy. Annoying if you want to be spontaneous and suddenly decide want to go down to the coast, and knowing you will have to charge up on way home.
Waiting for a charger at service station - still woeful lack of chargers at service stations. Might have to wait 45 mins or an hour to get onto one. Battery depreciation in winter. Our car goes from 210 miles fully charged in summer down to 140 miles fully charged in winter
Overall we like them, but would never contemplate one of was unable to charge at home
From our perspective we managed to cope with a 13amp plug charging lead for 10 months while we were waiting for stop/start building works to complete and install the 7kW charger. For 10 months we have always tried to keep the battery near 100% (not advised) because we never knew when we would need a longer trip or problems getting the charging lead to the car. Now that the 7kW charger is installed we are much more relaxed about charging, usually stopping at 80% (as advised) when we do charge it but are happy to leave at a much lower level (eg below 50%) because we know we can bring it up to a high level pretty quickly as charging is about 8 times as fast. We also know in an emergency we can go to a local public rapid charger.
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