Opinions on this please

Would be grand for shopping and commuting for most folk. Worst case range would be 200km per charge. There's a blue opel corsa on DD for similar money and a few more miles. Same car more or less.

That's a matter of opinion. Personally I think they're both dull, especially if white.

Does the person with the disability have any equipment to be taken into consideration like a wheelchair?

I haven't used one or really seen the practicality of the space but the Kona's boot is considered quite small. Something like a Nissan leaf would have a considerably bigger boot.

If your going to be exclusively charging at home, the fact it has chademo fast charger shouldn't be an issue (although maybe when you sell it)

The free vrt due to the person with the disability isn't really and advantage for an EV as most of them up north are free vrt and Vat anyways (vrt is free for any Ev in this price range, vat is free on any NI reg car or one that has been in private use for a reasonable amount of time).

That's not to say it's not worth getting it up north of you find something good.

Do you have to make any other type of journeys than the shops? If all you were doing was short journeys than possibly and older leaf would suit absolutely fine, and would leave plenty of change from €12k.

I'm not an Ev expert by any stretch of the definition so take my advice with a pinch of salt

There isn't a huge amount of options in the 12k range: probably: leaf, 208, Corsa, ioniq and maybe a Kona

I know nothing about the 208 and Corsa other than what size their predecessors were and they would have been a smaller car than the leaf. I saw a 208 yesterday and it looked relatively small, but hard to know when passing it on the motorway.

Don't know a huge amount about the Kona either, maybe it would suit ok, but you'd have to check out the boot.

I have an ioniq, I like it a lot. But I felt the seats were a bit lower than leaf. Boot is ok, not very tall but it's relatively deep so might be acceptable.

i test drove a few leafs and I thought they were nice. I felt their driving position was a little higher so might be easier to get in and out of. Had a decent deep boot. I think the 2019 and above(I think) new model looks a lot nicer than the older one. im not sure on what different specs are available, but there are so many leafs available I would be looking for one that has adaptive cruise control which really makes driving a breeze in some situations

That leaf you linked on looked pretty good to me in terms of spec etc, I'm not sure price wise if it was worth travelling north for one, I feel like you might get similar down here for similar money, but I'm not sure on that.

The leaf sounds like it would suit your driving perfectly, maybe someone could advise if it would do 190km on the motorway during the winter but I presume so.

The leaf has a different fast charging port than basically every other car called chademo (other cars have CCS). This only comes into play when publicly fast charging, the 2019+ model uses the same AC charging port (home charger) as any other car.

There is a question over how will chademo chargers be available in the future as chargers get upgraded, although currently they seem plentiful enough. This doesn't sound like it will impact your usage at all, but may have an impact on selling price in the future, but personally I think if you buy at an decent price now you'll do ok depreciation wise.

So regular cruise control is telling the car drive 120km/h and will drive at that speed til you intervene.

Adaptive cruise control is more like telling the car to drive 120km/h if it can, so it will detect a slower car in front of you and reduce speed to match what the car in front is doing til it speeds up again. It's very pleasant for motorway driving

I think that a petrol hybrid would be a better buy in your use case. Keep it simple, no need to charge it and should be easy to sell on when the time comes.

Ifd its a non plug in hybrid , which I would recomend in this instance, you just put petrol into the car and when you use the brakes it saves a portion of the recovered energy back to the battery. It gives you a short range (depending on the car) of 10 to 20km of EV mode and then the petrol engine kicks in. Each car is different but its very simple and no changes needed from driver and will be easy to sell after its no longer needed.

Hope you get sorted with the decision.

Actually the 208 looks good in white.

I just think most cars in white look shít. My Brother loves white cars and I hate them. Personal preference.

I really don't see how you can find it dull.

You're the one who said "The Corsa is so dull." Take a look for yourself. They are the same car with subtle differences.Same body with different head/tail light accents and a different grille design. Each one is as dull as the other.

You say the revamped 508 was classier and more stunning than a Lambo? You're havin a laugh now lad. Nothin against Peugeots, but c'mon now. Keep it real.

The e-508 looks more like a revamped Kia Magentis/Optima than something out-classing a Lambo.