This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying

nice project for someone! (STG£65K!!)

Seems a pretty good deal even without haggling the price down. Would be wary of the range for business purposes, especially given than load will have a large impact on it also.

Electric vans are all mad expensive. 45k minimum most in the 50s zone. That's a solid deal for the right business use case

I think a lot of the price pressures that existed for passenger EVs are worse for vans

You've got the likes of Amazon buying up electric vans and not batting an eye at spending €20 million on a couple thousand vans

Then you've got the UK market at a big push for electric vans in London because of the ULEZ. No car company is going to sell vans for €30k here if they can get £40k in England

There's probably some anticipation of something similar here like congestion or emissions charges as well, which adds to the price pressure

How high do we go on the low price vs high mileage scale before we start getting nervous? 😄 9k Ioniq with 280km.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/hyundai-ioniq-ev/35001618

Gotta love a high mileage hero EV. Please somebody here buy it and take Unkel for a spin to find out how it has aged compared to when it was new.

How much depreciation is that for 6 years of motoring, and taxi mileage?

what was the list price in 2017 though?

It's double the average normal person range. But by absolutely no means beyond a commuting vehicle doing 2 hour commute to and from daily weekly monthly.

I know the ioniq has a great battery /buffer but when do they start dropping range ?

Mileage works out to 186km per day (assuming driving 5 days a week)

Would and Ioniq do that reliably without fast charging?

The owner might have had a charger in work so they could avoid fast charging, and if it's free they'd save a ton of cash

Let's just say for giggles that the whole thing was done at 6c/kWh (I'm sort of averaging the night rate over the past few years)

Ioniq gets something like 12kWh/100km on average if I'm remembering correctly, so that's 33,600kWh over 6 years

Total cost about €2k for charging

Diesel car averaging 5l/100km and maybe €1.50/l over 280,000km would cost €21k 😳

So the fuel savings alone pay for the deprecation (assuming my math is correct, big assumption 🤣)

What would be people's guesses as to the maintenance cost difference for the Ioniq and the equivalent diesel?

Ioniq is probably on its third or fourth set of tyres by now, but other than that and pollen filters there wouldn't be much

So €200-300 per year average?

Diesel would presumably need oil change every year, new oil filters, adblue and probably at least one DPF filter change (and the new tyres on top)

I've no idea what that would cost having never owned a diesel, but I feel like you're looking around at least €500 per year?

This is all assuming you got a garage to do it

For the same 5 years accumulation in single off big ticket items over that mileage arguably average 700-1000 per year maintenance.

Not taking anything away from the Ioniq, but I don’t think people realise how reliable diesels are for the first 5 years of their life when driven correctly.

You’d have absolutely no DPF or EGR issues at that mileage. Just regular oil and filter changes. And have people forgotten about manufacturers warranties?

All going good your still probably talking €350+ in maintenance per year, because of tyres and a possible timing belt and waterpump. And obviously high fuel costs too.