Why are people buying electric cars?

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Steep said:
Why would you doubt the 500 miles figure? There are already cars that exceed that and range estimates have been very accurate throughout the 15 years that EV have been evolving and there's no reason why that would change.
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Possibly because almost every real-world evaluation seems to reduce the actual possible mileage between 15% and 40% depending on weather and driving conditions. Anyone doing serious mileage isn't going to drive at 45mph or whatever best economy requires, it's what we would expect with any car, and the EV is no exception, although they do seem especially poor at motorway speeds.

FWIW I noticed there's a Merc with a second gear for the motors, and that combined with a slippery shape does make it better on the motorway.
 
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That is the point. Manufacturer's claims are constantly being undermined by other independent sources including many based on user's own experiences. And company car owners aren't gambling with their own money.
 
102k miles up in my modest BEV. Does almost all that I ask of if - odd tactical charge on a long day out - but otherwise entirely sold on £0.02/mi and the fact that it really ticks some people off. It works for me. I love the smell of petrol - it's about the one thing I miss about having an ICE car.

Get used to it, hydrocarbons are a finite resource - the price is going to be volatile but inexorably upwards. Synthetic fuels are always going to be expensive (Take a look at SASOL's Coal-to-liquid in Apartheid South Africa - they had no oil, they had gazillions of tonnes of coal... Easy in a lab to turn it into liquid hydrocarbons right? Very much not right)
 
ancient_mariner said:
Possibly because almost every real-world evaluation seems to reduce the actual possible mileage between 15% and 40% depending on weather and driving conditions. Anyone doing serious mileage isn't going to drive at 45mph or whatever best economy requires, it's what we would expect with any car, and the EV is no exception, although they do seem especially poor at motorway speeds.

FWIW I noticed there's a Merc with a second gear for the motors, and that combined with a slippery shape does make it better on the motorway.
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Clive K said:
That is the point. Manufacturer's claims are constantly being undermined by other independent sources including many based on user's own experiences. And company car owners aren't gambling with their own money.
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We were not talking about manufacturers estimates, 500 miles plus is doable now and will be commonplace in a couple of years. The mid range Citroen C5 Aircross EV has 420 miles range and costs £33k.
My own experience over 4 EVs is it's perfectly possible to get the wltp range and better if you don't drive like a dick which most people don't.
When it comes down to it, somebody who for whatever reason (genuine or not) is set against EV is not going to accept any argument in favour of them. We've seen it time and again in this thread. You quote something good about EVs and a usual suspect will drill it down until they can say it doesn't work in xyz situation so therefore all EVs are bad.
 
Steep said:
As I've said many times, this thread is about why people are buying EVs not why they are sticking to ICE.
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Surely it's inevitable that the thread will drift, especially when those in favour are such a small minority, going purely on the evidence?
 
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