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Saved a few thousands by buying a demonstrator . Top spec Hyundai Ioniq PHEV bought in 2019 and still going strong.
 
lordrobs said:
Urgh. How do people watch that sort of guff on YouTube?
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if you are pre millenial you can get these on amazon
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GuruJockStrap said:
What's peoples view on purchasing a used EV?

Looking at replacing my current car with an EV and there are some 2022/2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Premium Spec with 20-40k miles from £17-18.5k. They are the revised MY23 models with the 77kWh battery and battery pre conditioning as standard..
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That is a lot of car for the money.
(tempting fate., I will blame you now if something goes wrong) I bought my 1st EV in 2023. it was 2.5 years old with 43kish on the clock.

currently the only thing its cost me outside of extended warranty, servicing/MOT and insurance is a new set of tyres

I bought our 2nd EV (the wife's car, so I still have mine) in 2024, 6 years old with 25k on the clock and all that has cost us out side of insurance, service and MOT is 2 new tyres and a new battery (12v not the main one!)

unless it's forced due to my job (toying with driving instructor and an EV may limit me) I hope never to buy an ICE again - unless I go nuts and buy an F Type ;)
 
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GuruJockStrap said:
What's peoples view on purchasing a used EV?

Looking at replacing my current car with an EV and there are some 2022/2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Premium Spec with 20-40k miles from £17-18.5k. They are the revised MY23 models with the 77kWh battery and battery pre conditioning as standard.

If I got a 2023 model, then that's Hyundai warranty until 2028 and 2031 for the battery.
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I'm in the same kind of place as you, looking to buy a second hand ev for a daily driver. I drove a Niro for a few months for a previous job a couple of years ago and that was great. I test drove a model y earlier this week to buy and that was like an iPhone moment.
 
Question for all you IOG users subbed to greener nights...asking for a friend:

Say the next few upcoming nights are not greener nights, what stops us (me) from disconnecting our EV charger/EV from IOG and charging the car, then re-connecting it back to IOG a couple days later (ie, to keep the greener nights % high to get the full monthly bonus)
Will octopus police this kind of gaming?
 
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I’m subbed but pay no attention to it. I charge when I need to and don’t charge when I don’t.

IIRC if you turn off smart charging, they can still see your car charging via the API.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Try it and see what happens.
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haha i don't really need to, my daily mileage is low enough and free work charging too
the thought just popped up in my head. i might try it, if i really had the need to in the future for research purposes of course... :cry:

b0rn2sk8 said:
It’s a lot of effort to go to for a few Octo points.
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tbf it's only a few seconds to deregister the car on the app and about a minute to reconnect it
 
bigmike20vt said:
That is a lot of car for the money.
(tempting fate., I will blame you now if something goes wrong) I bought my 1st EV in 2023. it was 2.5 years old with 43kish on the clock.

currently the only thing its cost me outside of extended warranty, servicing/MOT and insurance is a new set of tyres

I bought our 2nd EV (the wife's car, so I still have mine) in 2024, 6 years old with 25k on the clock and all that has cost us out side of insurance, service and MOT is 2 new tyres and a new battery (12v not the main one!)

unless it's forced due to my job (toying with driving instructor and an EV may limit me) I hope never to buy an ICE again - unless I go nuts and buy an F Type ;)
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I currently have BMW X3 M40i and whilst I utterly love it, I have to take a step back and consider whether it’s worth keeping.

I have a great opportunity to be completely mortgage free within the next 4 years, especially rethinking choice of vehicle.

I could sell the BMW and money would allow me to pay off the personal loan outstanding on it and allow me to get an Ioniq 5 by putting a small sum of savings towards it. I’d have no more monthly loan repayments and running costs will drop substantially. I can charge during my economy 7 rate and when I go to the office twice a week, I can use the charger there for free. So probably would only have to charge at home once week if that.
 
@GuruJockStrap i was in a similar boat to you (except that i'm not yet clearing my mortgage)...going EV was a no-brainer for me in terms of monetary savings...i'm not sure why it took me so long to get one :(
i swapped from a 2018 440i to a 2022 model 3 lr awd, 9 months into owning the model 3 and i'm already quids in (broke even at 7 months)

tamzzy said:
going from my 440i to my model 3 the cost to change was £600 (sold my 440i for £20k, my model 3 cost £20.6k) and from the depreciation graphs when i was researching, a 3 year old EV had the same depreciation curve as its ICE equivalent going forwards as someone already paid for the massive depreciation in the 3 years prior
installing an EV charger at home was £1k

the insurance was £400 cheaper on the model 3
saved £260/yr on not paying the bmw insured warranty
saving about £400/yr as no yearly servicing required

4k miles travelled on my model 3 to date about 8 months
total electricity cost: £86 - this includes a handful of supercharging stops i did during the summer
the equivalent in my 440i (lifetime average was 32mpg using RON98/99...assume about 150p/L) = £848

so basically in 8 months, i'm already quids in (saved about £260) and the difference is going to get larger as the running costs (insurance, servicing, fuel) is so much cheaper with an EV for me. as always, YMMV
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GuruJockStrap said:
I currently have BMW X3 M40i and whilst I utterly love it, I have to take a step back and consider whether it’s worth keeping.

I have a great opportunity to be completely mortgage free within the next 4 years, especially rethinking choice of vehicle.

I could sell the BMW and money would allow me to pay off the personal loan outstanding on it and allow me to get an Ioniq 5 by putting a small sum of savings towards it. I’d have no more monthly loan repayments and running costs will drop substantially. I can charge during my economy 7 rate and when I go to the office twice a week, I can use the charger there for free. So probably would only have to charge at home once week if that.
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only you can make that call and some will say you can't get a better loan than on a house.

all I can say is for me, that feeling of owning your house yourself (Vs the bank owning it) is incredible and better than a car imo.... add to that the ionic 5 is hardly a car to be sniffed at.
 
Really liking the EV6 gave a Golf R a shock earlier accelerating onto the motorway I don’t think he expected me to overtake him. Only downside so far is the range is pretty awful in anything but eco mode. It does manage around 225 miles though and is still pretty quick even in Eco. It’s been a fantastic upgrade from the Ioniq 5 although I do miss the retro looks the EV6 is a much nicer car.
 
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