Car will take a year to repair - what can I do?

Taggo

Ibrahim5 said:

Any insight/advice appreciated

In future stick with standard petrol/diesel cars.

Yea I guess they never break down

Herzlos

Ibrahim5 said:

Any insight/advice appreciated

In future stick with standard petrol/diesel cars.

I had a friend who had a petrol Mercedes written off because parts would take 12 months to arrive. I also had a diesel Vauxhall where a part I wanted had an unspecified arrival time. The problem has nothing to do with your anti-EV stance. 

Taggo

I'll say it's the best car I've ever driven, it's !!!!!! that it's happened, but I don't think I'll ever move away from an EV again. 

The savings I'm making are worth it and it's just an enjoyable drive. 

ThorOdinson

If they give you a fossil hire car then claim the fuel cost back.

35har1old

Taggo said:

I'll say it's the best car I've ever driven, it's !!!!!! that it's happened, but I don't think I'll ever move away from an EV again. 

The savings I'm making are worth it and it's just an enjoyable drive. 

Do EVs deprecate more quickly?

35har1old

Taggo said:

I'll say it's the best car I've ever driven, it's !!!!!! that it's happened, but I don't think I'll ever move away from an EV again. 

The savings I'm making are worth it and it's just an enjoyable drive. 

If your are doing say 6000 miles you save roughly £114 base on £1.48 petrol price which is higher than the current price but as you have paid a premium  on the purchase of the EV your never will recoup the difference
New EV 6 basic £39000 roughly
New Kia Sportage hybrid £30000 roughly

WellKnownSid

35har1old said:

Taggo said:

I'll say it's the best car I've ever driven, it's !!!!!! that it's happened, but I don't think I'll ever move away from an EV again. 

The savings I'm making are worth it and it's just an enjoyable drive. 

If your are doing say 6000 miles you save roughly £114 base on £1.48 petrol price which is higher than the current price but as you have paid a premium  on the purchase of the EV your never will recoup the difference
New EV 6 basic £39000 roughly
New Kia Sportage hybrid £30000 roughly

Can't speak for the OP but we bought an EV via the EST.  They only fund second hand EVs, at least six months old / 1k miles on the clock.

New car was £32k
We bought an approved used 11 month old car with under 3k on the clock for £13k
I can buy the same approved used car today on Auto Trader for £12k. - 18 months older and 15k miles later.
Out of curiosity, WBAC would offer us today £200 more than they would have offered us 18 months ago.

In that time we have saved:
£1,500 on fuel
£6,500 on household electricity through having an EV-only tariff

Insurance and servicing were also less.  A second year service was £159.

Ibrahim5

WellKnownSid said:

35har1old said:

Taggo said:

I'll say it's the best car I've ever driven, it's !!!!!! that it's happened, but I don't think I'll ever move away from an EV again. 

The savings I'm making are worth it and it's just an enjoyable drive. 

If your are doing say 6000 miles you save roughly £114 base on £1.48 petrol price which is higher than the current price but as you have paid a premium  on the purchase of the EV your never will recoup the difference
New EV 6 basic £39000 roughly
New Kia Sportage hybrid £30000 roughly

Can't speak for the OP but we bought an EV via the EST.  They only fund second hand EVs, at least six months old / 1k miles on the clock.

New car was £32k
We bought an approved used 11 month old car with under 3k on the clock for £13k
I can buy the same approved used car today on Auto Trader for £12k. - 18 months older and 15k miles later.
Out of curiosity, WBAC would offer us today £200 more than they would have offered us 18 months ago.

In that time we have saved:
£1,500 on fuel
£6,500 on household electricity through having an EV-only tariff

Insurance and servicing were also less.  A second year service was £159.

So it lost more than 60% of it's value in the first year!

paul_c123

Those figures don't seem to relate to anything normal usage. £6500 electric bill saving in 18 months???

And without the exact dates or make/model car, can't really say anything about the £13k purchase except that 3 yrs ago, the only £32k EVs were..........Renault Zoe???

WellKnownSid

paul_c123 said:

Those figures don't seem to relate to anything normal usage. £6500 electric bill saving in 18 months???

And without the exact dates or make/model car, can't really say anything about the £13k purchase except that 3 yrs ago, the only £32k EVs were..........Renault Zoe???

Renault Zoe yes.

Typical family home - we use 25,000 kWh a year.  EV tariff (6.7p for 7 hours overnight) saves us close to 50%.