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Electric cars are a financial disaster for private buyers, its as simple as that.
In 2015 we bought a Nissan Note 1.2 DIg-S which after discount cost us about £12000.
At exactly the same time friends bought a new Zoe which cost them £26,000 approx and no discount.
We sold the Note just over 12 months ago and got a good price for it from Evans Halshaw buys your car. If we were selling it now it would be worth about £5500.
If they were selling the Zoe now it would be worth about £9000. (both Parkers prices).
We would have lost about £6500, they would have lost about £17000.
In 40,000 miles at approx 50 mpg the Note would have cost us about £4000 in petrol, No idea how much the Zoe has cost to recharge and not going to ask them (even if they know). Bizarre thing is they are the only property on their close without PV cells on the roof so no free electricity. But they have only done about 15,000 miles and 15,000 miles of fuel for the Note would ahve cost £1500 approx.
Note was £0 VED as is the Zoe. Note was free servicing, no idea about the Zoe. No idea about insurance either, Note was about £230 a year.
So over 4 years the real ££££'s cost for the Zoe is about £6500 higher than the Note plus electricity cost, or £9000 if we had only done 15000 miles.
But you have to remember our Note was a proper car and could go long distances. Friends are afraid to go more than about 50 mile from home should the car run out. If they want to go further they have to borrow the sons SUV.
Mate hates the car, regrets buying it and rarely drives it. But his wife loves it and uses it to drive stupidly short distances to the hairdressers, about 300 yards.
They simply do not work in the real world at present.
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