Lease electric car.

Gulash

I already told you, my mileage is 600 per month, mix of roundabouts and motorway.

By the way, how come you have so low insurance? I live in Basildon and I find insurance for £600+ per annum for a cheap hatchback. I have 15+ EU driving licence but only 1 NCB in UK. Would it reduce if I exchange my EU licence for UK? Is my location the problem? Is it the NCB?

gzoom

If your doing 600 miles a month than with a ture 50mpg car your only spending £60/month on fuel. Biggest cost new car ownership is deprecation, if your current car is old it wouldn't deprecate. The oldest secondhand EV will cost you £8k - 1st generation Leaf, you simply woudlnt find a 'fully maintained' new EV for under £200/month.

I'm currently paying £250/month 'All in' for my Leaf, but if you work that out its £6k for 2 years of motoring. At the end of 2 years I give the car back with nothing to show - so it's by no means 'cheap' motoring. If I was you I would just stick to your current car, and new EV will deprecate by ALOT more than 60/month. Alternatively get a cheap Priuis for <£5k if your after fuel saving costs.

thescouselander

Gulash wrote: »

I already told you, my mileage is 600 per month, mix of roundabouts and motorway.

By the way, how come you have so low insurance? I live in Basildon and I find insurance for £600+ per annum for a cheap hatchback. I have 15+ EU driving licence but only 1 NCB in UK. Would it reduce if I exchange my EU licence for UK? Is my location the problem? Is it the NCB?

It's probay lack of NCB. I seem to be able to insure almost any car for around £200.

WellKnownSid

Gulash wrote: »

I already told you, my mileage is 600 per month, mix of roundabouts and motorway.

Yes, but is that five journeys of 2 miles, and one of 590 or 300 journeys of 2 miles or six of 100? Actual information would help.

Gulash wrote: »

By the way, how come you have so low insurance? I live in Basildon and I find insurance for £600+ per annum for a cheap hatchback. I have 15+ EU driving licence but only 1 NCB in UK. Would it reduce if I exchange my EU licence for UK? Is my location the problem? Is it the NCB?

High crime area? Do you have NCB in the EU?

Gulash

gzoom wrote: »

If your doing 600 miles a month than with a ture 50mpg car your only spending £60/month on fuel. Biggest cost new car ownership is deprecation, if your current car is old it wouldn't deprecate. The oldest secondhand EV will cost you £8k - 1st generation Leaf, you simply woudlnt find a 'fully maintained' new EV for under £200/month.

I'm currently paying £250/month 'All in' for my Leaf, but if you work that out its £6k for 2 years of motoring. At the end of 2 years I give the car back with nothing to show - so it's by no means 'cheap' motoring. If I was you I would just stick to your current car, and new EV will deprecate by ALOT more than 60/month. Alternatively get a cheap Priuis for <£5k if your after fuel saving costs.

Which car is true 50mpg? My diesel is supposedly 67mpg and I pay
£100 for fuel per month!

Gulash

thescouselander wrote: »

It's probay lack of NCB. I seem to be able to insure almost any car for around £200.

How much should the NCB be to start paying that amount of money?

Gulash

WellKnownSid wrote: »

Yes, but is that five journeys of 2 miles, and one of 590 or 300 journeys of 2 miles or six of 100? Actual information would help.

High crime area? Do you have NCB in the EU?

It's 4 journeys of 70 miles and the rest 5-20miles journeys.

I don't know if Basildon is high crime area, I don't think so.
I have NCB in the EU, but they don't count it?

AlexMac

As I told you in my many previous replies to your many previous questions about this subject of cars and your similar silly Qs about money laundering and about whether you can take white powder on airplanes... you need to be talking to my family in La Cosa Nostra in la Sicilia

gzoom

Gulash wrote: »

Which car is true 50mpg? My diesel is supposedly 67mpg and I pay
£100 for fuel per month!

Depends on your type of driving....

12 months ago I was doing a daily 100 mile commute. I used our old diesel Civic. Averaged 50mpg per tank of fuel.



My commute now is only 10 miles so the Civic has now been replace by a Lexus IS300H hybrid - same as a tech as a Prius. Even in urban traffic, 45mpg+ all day long.



But nothing comes close to the Leaf, 5100 miles done as off lastnight, free charging at local Nissan garage (next door to a Asda - so I charge up whilst shopping)....Have only used 575 kWh of my own electricity. That works out as on fuel £80 to go 5100 miles, or 1.8p per mile :T

Even if I paid for all my charging, my yearly average electricity use in the Leaf is 4.5 miles per kWh, so it would have costed me roughly £160 to cover 5100 miles...So 3p per mile, still nearly THREE times cheaper than a ture 50mpg car with petrol at £1/l.

fifeken

Gulash wrote: »

I already told you, my mileage is 600 per month

Gulash wrote: »

I pay £100 for fuel per month!

So you're getting 600 miles for £100 of fuel.

Petrolprices.com says Basildon is average £1.07 per litre for diesel so you're using 93.46 litres or 20.56 gallons.

That means you're getting < 30 miles to the gallon.

Maybe work out why that is before thinking of changing to an electric vehicle.