CUPRA Born is being offered with a UK-first three-month return option

[tracktoy]

As always with buying motors its a very personal choice so what you like is not going to be the same as what I like.

The 12 best EVs in 2025 (and the ones to avoid)

Thinking of going electric? These are the best electric cars you can buy in the UK right now

www.independent.co.uk

The best electric cars in 2024​

• Best overall – Tesla Model 3: From £39,990,
• Best budget EV – Dacia Spring: From £14,995,
• Best seven-seat EV – Kia EV9: From £65,025,
• Best sports EV – Hyundai Ioniq 5 N: From £65,000,
• Best for range – Volkswagen ID. 7: From £51,550,

But again this may not be the same as what you or i want so its very subjective.

On a global scale No 1 is BYD followed by Tesla and VW come in No 6.

 

[dirk1978]

As always with buying motors its a very personal choice so what you like is not going to be the same as what I like.

The 12 best EVs in 2025 (and the ones to avoid)

Thinking of going electric? These are the best electric cars you can buy in the UK right now

www.independent.co.uk

The best electric cars in 2024​

• Best overall – Tesla Model 3: From £39,990,
• Best budget EV – Dacia Spring: From £14,995,
• Best seven-seat EV – Kia EV9: From £65,025,
• Best sports EV – Hyundai Ioniq 5 N: From £65,000,
• Best for range – Volkswagen ID. 7: From £51,550,

But again this may not be the same as what you or i want so its very subjective.

On a global scale No 1 is BYD followed by Tesla and VW come in No 6.

Autocar best EVs 2024. Guess which is number 1

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/best-cars/top-10-best-electric-cars

The Tesla model 3 winning the Independent one shows they haven't even bothered driving the cars.

 

[tracktoy]

but guess who is selling more.

Not going to carry on with this as I said before cars are a very personal choice

 

[SRGTD]

IMHO a motoring journalist‘s review of a car after having spent no more than a few hours with it won’t necessarily reflect what it’s like to live with on a day to day basis in the real world.

@tracktoy - agree, cars are a very personal choice. We’re all individuals with different likes, dislikes, wants and needs, so what’s right for one person won’t necessarily be right for another.

 

[Tell]

Think EVs were over priced so are finding their price point. Worldwide prices have plunged. Pre registered to get quotes. Not that anybody doesn't want them since they are selling well just the price falling. I'm holding till 2030 or something. Eyeball the EV chargers on route.

On electricity on Octopus Agile they would be a good wheeze and that's what people do to charge them up on negative pricing. The car is your home battery all 80kw of it, you don't need a home battery on your solar journey as I told the local Seat sales guy. ? He wasn't on a solar journey. You do need a big roof. No for local use Agile pricing should keep you going. Travelling large distances to work probably not. For those using the car commuting to the station home charging gives you a cost saving.

The Born itself would be a good run around. Our local farmer has the VW version. Probably farming electricity business prices. One of those VW electric van people carriers at another farm doing the kiddy run. Bit dangerous when it glides up on you from behind on a narrow farm road. Probably on farm electricity as a business expense.

Inventive use of EVs but they won't be for everyone at the minute. Street charging an issue and duration etc. Probably not really for working people as Starmer may say. ?

 

[dirk1978]

We had an Octavia vRS DSG 245 estate we were paying £370 a month for. Realistically it was probably doing 25 MPG on the wife's journeys to work and back.

Then we would do small journeys for lifts, walk the dog etc. Starting and stopping an engine that was designed 100 years ago to be started and continue running. Doing anything else with it is very inefficient. Thermal efficiency, cold start wear, all of that.

We were paying about £250 a month in petrol. We're now paying roughly £20 electric instead (£250 / month = 45.5 gallons. At 25 mpg that's 1125 miles. At 4 miles per kWh in the Born that's 280 kWh. 280 kWh at 7p / kWh is £19.60)

So now we're paying £414 a month for the VZ to save £230 a month in fuel. Added to that are non existant servicing costs because nothing moves, no need for brake pads and discs for a long time and it's a whole lot nicer to drive than daft DSG boxes that you need to start driving a second early and have a panic attack any time it throws an error light or makes a clunk makes this a no-brainer for us. YMMV.

 

[Yern]

Inventive use of EVs but they won't be for everyone at the minute. Street charging an issue and duration etc. Probably not really for working people as Starmer may say. ?

Please define 'working people'...I'm still trying to understand it.