[Olde faithful]

Originally Posted by polinsteve

The trouble is, the manufactures emphasise the maximum range in ideal conditions. Use of heating, lighting and even the radio affect the range. Also, it is stated that to get maximum life, the battery should only be charged up to 80% maximum and kept above 50%, so following the recommended guidelines we are talking about a mere 30% of the maximum, in your case, to get maximum life out of the battery pack, a recommended range of 80-90 miles.

As with most fuel economy figures, in the real world they are nowhere near advertised "up to" figures. The cost to replace the battery pack in your car for instance, is about £4600 plus any labour costs. towards the end of the 7 year warranty, the 2nd hand market will most probably be badly hit which I expect to severely impact the lifespan. Additionally, the more electric vehicles the greater the demand and therefore prices of the rare metals required will increase beyond inflation.
Depreciation is estimated to run at about 67% after just 3 years, extrapolate that to 7 years when a replacement battery pack would be a distinct possibility, the costs to keep the car on the road will be unrealistic. The perks on offer at the moment, for example road pricing, will be a long gone distant dream, bearing in mind the government is already talking of income lost with the "get people to go electric" costs.

this comment is spot on, you need cobalt and lots of it to make battery cars, if GB only replaced all of its cars with battery cars we would need 2000% of the world production its all bull.......Battery cars are not it.... and the climate change oh sorry global warming... is the same hoax as the current situations the world finds its self in.