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Originally Posted by punyXpress
Zoe battery lease @£69/month
That's more than I spend on diesel for my shonky Skoda!
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This!
We were in the market for a new small car last October (previous one written off) and looked at electric. The Renault Zoe ticked all the boxes of what we needed the car to do but buying the battery made the car ridiculously expensive and the battery lease option of £70 pcm is more than double the cost of the petrol we put in the little Skoda we bought instead. I didn't even look at the cost of depreciation, there was no need when the running costs were so high compared to a conventional petrol vehicle.
Having said that, I'm leasing my next main car as I think the game will change massively in the next few years. This is a way of hedging my bets as to whether EVs take off and become mainstream and not losing a bundle on a conventional car.