That article you linked to is a good option in very sunny but electricity sparse countries. Not so good for us though, unless they developed high efficiency small solar panels.lol true.... but a self charging hyrid has a fuel tank which you need to fill. If you dont fill that, once it runs dry it cant self charge.
there are self charging cars which exist, and if toyota wants to sell them then massive respect to them.
Not sure where i would put my shopping however. (not being serious btw)
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They are also being removed as they don’t meet the standards required any longer.
So people who don’t pay for fuel don’t see the benefit of lower running costs for EV. Rather obvious as I can imagine they are driving a lot and the slow charging vs fuel fill is probably why they are against it.
Sometimes when I read this thread I only see this.
Hopefully when adding more EV chargers to motorway services stations, there will also be changes to make the eating and drinking area's larger as well, which we noticed were stretched when travelling up the M40 a couple of years ago with all the charges in use, vehicles waiting and many taking a 30 minute coffee/burger break.
This was all mid-week in May and July.
Hopefully when adding more EV chargers to motorway services stations, there will also be changes to make the eating and drinking area's larger as well, which we noticed were stretched when travelling up the M40 a couple of years ago with all the charges in use, vehicles waiting and many taking a 30 minute coffee/burger break.
This was all mid-week in May and July.
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Sometimes when I read this thread I only see this.
Apt, true and sometimes necessary unfortunately.
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everything else aside that is an absolute belter of a film, i hope we can all agree on that at least ? 
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Marketing teams don't bother checking with the laws of thermodynamics. I did lol when I heard the term self-charging hybrid in an advert for the first time.
My EV self-charges as well, down hills
My EV self-charges as well, down hills
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surely you can't be serious?everything else aside that is an absolute belter of a film, i hope we can all agree on that at least ?
Sad to say, we're in that camp and jumped onto the bandwagon. It would have been daft not to take up the offers available to us.
We're paying a smidge over £500 for an all in inclusive deal that on the open market would cost a 12k depost and 1200pcm (at the time we signed the lease deal) - not including insurance or maintenance. It's utterly unfair.
But these lease deals are a bit different to fleet style company cars where the car is a part of your day to day work and you get all your fuel paid. Certainly mileage allowance wise.
And us.
Jeez, the early IONIQ5s are really coming down in price now. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202402136522276 -- £22.5k for a 73kWh version with less than 30k miles on it.
I predicted they would go out of style due to their marmite looks (I think they are terrible looking as is the Ioniq 6).
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You can’t have Tesla shipping record EVs and BYD shipping record EVs year on year with decreased demands.
I didn't realise the insurance group would be that high.
Is that common with EV's
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It’s similar to any SUV really. Which is the class of cars IONiQ 5 is in.
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I love the Ioniq 5 just on looks alone.. the 80s pixel / cyberpunk styling is great..I predicted they would go out of style due to their marmite looks (I think they are terrible looking as is the Ioniq 6).
But I have come to realise I'm in the minority!
Each to their own of course.
I really like them too! In fact, I'd be considering them at this price if I weren't so hooked on getting a Model 3 for the Supercharger network
