I think some EVs had a major "bubble" after petrol/diesel hit £2 which a combination of greater used supply and reduced fuel costs has burst. Prices are now back roughly where they were before and roughly in line with ICE cars

Still way cheaper to run an EV charging at home (or using a "free" charger - non round these parts now.

Went to the garden centre the morning, 30mile round trip. Charged using Octopus Go @ 9.5 pence a kwh the trip cost us about £0.95. The same trip in the previous Superb at 45 mpg would have cost us about £4.60 (using current petrol price locally of £1.519 per litre).

Only a £3.60 saving, almost paid for the drinks.

When my MG4 was in for a service last week the dealer gave me a Corsa E for the day and I can say it was awful and I was glad to be back in my MG. The Corsa was noisy, rough, cramped and at list price more expensive. I'm not surprised they are having to discount them heavily to get buyers in.

Don't regret my MG4 after 15,000 miles in 10 months.

Sounds like it had a problem. I had a Corsa-e and, while definitely cramped, it was not noisy or rough at all.

When my MG4 was in for a service last week the dealer gave me a Corsa E for the day and I can say it was awful and I was glad to be back in my MG. The Corsa was noisy, rough, cramped and at list price more expensive. I'm not surprised they are having to discount them heavily to get buyers in.

Don't regret my MG4 after 15,000 miles in 10 months.

One of my friends has one, she gives me and my daughter a lift every other day. The car is quiet as a mice compare to our petrol Avensis, what do you mean by noisy? Seems like most BEV makes a low hum but that's about it.

I see Evans Halshaw are offering brand new Corsa E for £19,995. £8k off list price. I wonder if that’s the shape of things to come.

so much for no more heavy discounting of Vauxhalls that Stellantis had espoused ...

Edited by SLO76 on 07/09/2023 at 17:19

Vaushall and Ford have been saying for decades they are ending the deep discount model. Its nonsense.

They are mass volume manufacturers selling huge numbers to fleets, this means there is always a supply of nearly new models on the market and they have to competeto sell new ones to private buyers, hence why deep discounts on new cars via brokers won't go away.

Search Autotrader - lots of new Corsa and E208 for sale around the £22-23k mark. Also the EH £20k ad.

I would guess the lower price of s/h EVs is that the first owners would largely have been on lease deals - company car users and tax benefits made the high cost attractive.

Second owners are likely to be private buyers who get little tax benefit from driving EV, and may be spending real money through cash purchase not lease. They will inevitably compare ICE with EV noting that many are still "range anxious".

Am I right in thinking the Corsa has just had a face-lift?

If so, dealers will want rid of showroom models and demonstrators fairly quickly as they'll need the current model one in there. Nearly 20 years ago now, I got an effectively new Octavia for about £5k below list price (about 30% off) because the model was changing and the dealer needed to sell the one which had been sitting in their showroom for the last 9 months.

Having said that, there are good discounts to be had on many of the "less good" electric cars - there's a large number of new or pre-reg Citroen E-C4s listed for about £23k on Autotrader too, which is a much bigger car than the Corsa and that's about £13k off list price.

It's a different story on the more expensive EVs though - best offer on a Kia EV6 is £2.5k off a list price of £45k with a similar story with the BMW i4 which has about £5k off a list price of £60k.