Thoughts on Vauxhall Mokka Electric 2021?

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I'm looking to purchase my first EV with a £13K budget and need advice on the 2021 Vauxhall Mokka Electric. My typical usage is:
  • Daily 40-mile round trip commute on congested highways
  • Usually drive alone or with one passenger
  • No home charging available, but access to new Shell public chargers nearby
  • Safety is my priority, especially automatic emergency braking for pedestrians
  • Fun driving dynamics aren't important to me
Would the Mokka Electric suit these requirements?
 
Yes but it will probably cost you at least the same but probably more to run using only public chargers than a petrol car with less convenience. As far as the Mokka goes, its 'fine', by no means the worst car but its not the best in class either.

I'm not saying that as an EV detractor, I've exclusively driven one as our only vehicle for 4 years.

P.S. there is a thread for this already https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/when-are-you-going-fully-electric.18829138/
 
What is the relative price of those shell kwh versus supercharger with membership, my neighbour with id4, just granny charging (as I would have to do too, until we put in a £2K cable to garage + charger cost)
was complaining about local/1mile instavolt @80p versus tesla in the 40s, such a differential would be galling. ... others on here must know these price differentials by heart

Otherwise after a weeks extended test-drive with a mokka-e, few thoughts
comfort : I'm not familiar with SUVs, A pillar is quite big and edge of bonnet difficult to establish, and for urban environment I'd find it quite large even though it's a compact, seat squab maybe a bit short.
no creaks seemed well screwed together.
it's non chinese : like ID3, say; I think this will be in its favour for longer term residuals (parts, dealers, garages) and consequently insurance (if it's like ID3 I'd spec'd to insure)
infotainment : one I have, has no native nav system, so using CarPlay, reversing cam and 360camera seemed good.

Didn't try out emergency braking for pedestrians ... but was surprised in forward parking situations did not seem to provide warning of bollards approaching at corners
(expected it to beep, or maybe brake, but because I couldn't see bonnet edge didn't push it to see if it would stop on its own)

e:lordrobs reply, to me, seems very relevant too for any daily winter commuting situation
The Vauxhall app is a POS, connects once in a blue moon if you are lucky. Hopefully you'll have the option to set pre-conditioning from the climate menu within the car. As long as there is enough juice in the battery (or connected to a charger) the car will fire up HV battery and get the car to 21'C for your designated time.

e2: if you open door during parking manouvering to check kerb/dividing line distance it puts car in park - annoying
 
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The thing is I live in Manchester and the only Tesla charge location anywhere close to me is Trafford Park. Which is very busy, anytime I've been there there's a queue of DPD electric vans, Teslas and other EVs.
 
I'm looking to purchase my first EV with a £13K budget and need advice on the 2021 Vauxhall Mokka Electric. My typical usage is:
  • Daily 40-mile round trip commute on congested highways
  • Usually drive alone or with one passenger
  • No home charging available, but access to new Shell public chargers nearby
  • Safety is my priority, especially automatic emergency braking for pedestrians
  • Fun driving dynamics aren't important to me
Would the Mokka Electric suit these requirements?

with no access to home charging, I'd say it's not a good idea to go electric.

One of the major points of electric is cheap overnight rate charging. If your public charging only, it will get frustrating sitting at chargers, waiting. Also the cost of public charging can be like 70/80p a kw.... My overnight charging on octopus is like 7p, a tenth of the cost of public charging.
 
The Mokka is a built on a pretty terrible EV platform unfortunately.

It's built on the Stellantis CMP 50kwh platform which is really inefficient compared to others, i've heard people struggling to get over 2.5miles per kwh in the winter which gives around 100 miles of usable range in a car like that.

Contrast to something like a Hyundai Ioniq or Kona which will probably get 3.5 to 4 miles per kwh in the winter
 
The thing is I live in Manchester and the only Tesla charge location anywhere close to me is Trafford Park. Which is very busy, anytime I've been there there's a queue of DPD electric vans, Teslas and other EVs.

Why don't you budget 10k instead and get an ICE car a put the rest in your back pocket for fuel as without home charging EV's are really not the place for you at the moment I would say.
 
Wouldn't bother, imagine needing to chare right now. 0C outside, sat in your car for an hour to pay more than liquid fuel. Tedious and expensive
From mokkas 50kw battery I drove 100miles, mostly A roads 55/60, it said it had 60miles left, air temp about 2C, cabin 25 . so 3m/KWh 'winter'

OP's shell local looks more problematic shell look like they are genuinely 2x tesla/ionity eg. https://leccy.net/charging/public/ultra#kwh , https://leccy.net/charging/public/rapid#kwh
maybe market will fix these discrepancies, though
2.6-3m/kwh winter, 4+m/kwh summer is pretty much rule of thumb for most normal single motor EVs to be honest.
 
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