Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

I went into the Merlin website after reading that earlier. I could see two EVs on it. Hardly “full of used EV bargains”.

The infrastructure is still absolute crap throughout most of the Island, we still take the Outlander at times especially going South West, West or North west, it's just too much hassle and the waiting on 50 Kw chargers in these locations and mostly single chargers and if one is dead you're fecked or if there's a queue.

I had thought in 2015 when I got the Leaf that things would have been much better by now.

There are many people with no home charging.

I still believe a Rex system should be offered now by the majority of auto makers, with the reintroduction of bio fuels and rumours of Efuel ( which deserves it's own thread ) Rex type systems should be reintroduced, in my opinion of course. Hydrogen can be burned directly in ICEs, I know there are still issues with storage for hydrogen but Efuels have no such issues and are a direct replacement for petrol and diesel.

I was thinking that the 2030 ban on ICEs can't happen because in reality BEVs are a long way off being a direct replacement for ICEs. What will happen is that people will keep their ICE for many years longer and that might not be a bad thing.

The cost of new cars in general is a deterrent but never before have so many new cars being purchased on PCP plans which I find a bit disturbing, yes, I'm on my 3rd PCP and knew exactly what I was getting into each time, knew I had no intentions of keeping a low range Leaf or i3 so it suited me, my budget included the balloon at the end but I fear that many people are buying cars on PCP without being fully aware of the implications.

I didn't use the grant and its cost me less than that to buy one and have it installed.

Just doesn't make sense to me to have an ev with no home charger. But each to their own I suppose.

Well the last charger was a replacement one, so all the cabling was already in place, just a change out.

But even before that, my 1st charger I bought 2nd hand, and a local spark fitted it for me. Still was very reasonable.

I never claimed the grant, I always thought you'd have to jump through hoops etc to claim it. No doubt use a spark who was on some list and who'd charge you an arm and a leg for the install as they knew you were getting grant money, when an equally qualified local spark would do it at a fraction of the cost.

Might have been worthwhile if you were getting one of those all singing, all dancing charge points that tie into grid, so solar charging etc. Mine was bog standard so o was installing as cheaply as possible.

Where did she say she was exaggerating? Listen, in the last week there has been a push back from plenty of Journos like Rory Reid with real world facts. At least the balance has been restored again. I'm having a great conversation with a guy on YouTube at the moment who says his ICE can do 5 times the mileage of a Tesla. Most of his answers include five or six laughing emojis to really get his point across that I'm a clown.

I think the MG brand would be considered a cheap Chinese car brand by your average Joe Soap and not really comparable to the Ford. Your comparison would also indicate that MG residuals could be shaky. A more comparable EV in terms of a mainstream brand to a Ford Focus would be a VW ID.3 or e-Golf. I’m sure there is nothing wrong with an MG but a lot of current Ford Focus owners won’t even have heard of them.

Really.., What would you suggest as a direct competitor for a Ford Focus ?

A Golf 😉