One of my fellow bloggers (
https://classichub.wordpress.com) has a new VW e-Golf on test.
he's fairly putting it through its paces, and has been keeping track of charge useage.
I'd challenged him to better the Octavias current 70mpg at 50p/litre for veg- so a per mile cost of 3p.
the e- golf has come back at 1.5p/mile charged so far- at a variety of locations and times.
most impressive!
but here's the thing, the e-Golf is £27000 to buy..
my Octavia cost £200.
by my reckoning that means it would take circa 1, 786,666 miles for me to use up the rest of the £26.8k accounting for the 1.5p/mile cost of the octavia fuel over the e-Golf.
even if you say the Octavia does 60mpg(imperial) at 4.5p/mile (difference of 2.5p/mile) you would still cover 1, 072,000 miles before the £26,800 was spent..
even if you need to replace components 3/4 times I reckon you'd still be 500,000 ahead.
what do you reckon?