What's the problem with electric cars?

[The Thong]

Originally Posted by canis

Soimebody has to bear the cost somewhere, and it won't be the dealers. You can bet your life they will have calculated depreciation into the monthly fees, along with all the other "free" servicing, "free" AA membership, "free" windscreens, "free" this, "free" that ...

As Grandmother used to say…. You can’t beat the bookie. My Subaru came with “3yrs Free Servicing” plus a free “protection pack”. Free eh?? Whatever. It came with the motor whether I liked it or not. All marketing ploys

TT

[baggy798]

Originally Posted by The Thong

The EV future in incoming and while the Anti EV brigade are waving theirs arms about the infrastructure is being installed.

Meanwhile, the ULEZ cameras continue to tumble. It may not ultimately do anything but it feels good.😌

Wait until a group start disabling EV chargers.

[Existential Crisis]

Originally Posted by baggy798

Meanwhile, the ULEZ cameras continue to tumble. It may not ultimately do anything but it feels good.😌

Wait until a group start disabling EV chargers.

Ah, these must be the right kind of protesters presumeably?

[Whippy]

Originally Posted by Existential Crisis

Ah, these must be the right kind of protesters presumeably?

The ones not using hurty words then.

[Existential Crisis]

Originally Posted by Whippy

The ones not using hurty words then.

Sorry man, that's went right over my head. For the record I 100% agree with the right to protest, the right to express yourself and the right to freedom of thought; the last one being a really difficult one because surely all of our thought is manipulated to a certain degree? I particularly admire those with the courage of their convictions who protest in the full knowledge that doing so might end them up in jail, or out of a job because of the law. They are aware of the consequences but believe strongly enough in their principals that they live by them. Those who protest then complain when they don't like the consequences display a naivety and self entitlement that beggars belief...and those 'rules' stand regardless if I personally agree with those being expressed. Go cut down a camera, go glue yourself to a train, but don't complain if you end up in jail or unemployed. Setting fire to hotels and trying to drag people out of their cars or homes though, that's not protest, that's not damage to property, that's criminal, life endangering and those practicing such acts also need the full force of the law...again, regardless of their ideologies or philosophy...

Have a wonderful weekend all, gbn x

[Existential Crisis]

Originally Posted by canis

Soimebody has to bear the cost somewhere, and it won't be the dealers. You can bet your life they will have calculated depreciation into the monthly fees, along with all the other "free" servicing, "free" AA membership, "free" windscreens, "free" this, "free" that ...

A dealer essentially always sells a car twice, new, then as approved used stock, unless the original purchaser is looking at long term ownership which seems increasingly rare these days. I am going to keep my car till it is unfixable to do so, so depreciation doesn't matter.

[Whippy]

Originally Posted by The Thong

As Grandmother used to say…. You can’t beat the bookie. My Subaru came with “3yrs Free Servicing” plus a free “protection pack”. Free eh?? Whatever. It came with the motor whether I liked it or not. All marketing ploys

TT

When I bought my last car I managed to luck out, it was when they were offering silly deals just to shift the A6, that plus waving an orange wheels deal in his face won the day, I reckoned the discount took care of at least the first years depreciation.

[The Thong]

Originally Posted by Whippy

When I bought my last car I managed to luck out, it was when they were offering silly deals just to shift the A6, that plus waving an orange wheels deal in his face won the day, I reckoned the discount took care of at least the first years depreciation.

The servicing has saved me circa £1600 and god knows how much I saved on the protection pack. It’s probably gunna be overall £2k. You’re probably on the money with that.

TT

[The Thong]

Originally Posted by baggy798

Meanwhile, the ULEZ cameras continue to tumble. It may not ultimately do anything but it feels good.😌

Wait until a group start disabling EV chargers.

That’s definitely gunna be a fun pastime for a while.

TT

[GMcL]

Originally Posted by The Thong

The servicing has saved me circa £1600 and god knows how much I saved on the protection pack. It’s probably gunna be overall £2k. You’re probably on the money with that.

TT

The cheapest car you'll have is the one you currently own if you keep it long enough.
If i wrote my S60 off today, zero value, it will have cost me £98/month in depreciation. Bought at two years old. Compare that with £700+/month leasing costs which are essentially the depreciation for the first two, three or four years. Lease a car you are locked in to the steepest part of the depreciation curve indefinitely.

I'm sure there are people who have bought at four or five years old that have a depreciation figure half what mine is.