5 Years and 4 Electric Cars later. Has my attitude changed?
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And this madman here ranting and raving now before I go any further there is something I’m going to bring up uh for my 2024 review of this Channel and what we were going to do uh which was a video some time ago I did say that we will be
Going to Chicago late May early June well some personal stuff’s come along which is basically stopped us from doing this and that is the sale of this Lodge on my left hand side um we have a buyer for it and obviously those buyers could
Want to come in to the lodge at any time that we cannot just shoot over to Chicago and do Route 66 as per promised for this Channel or even for myself to enjoy because it’s a bad timing thing it could be 2 to 3 months before we have to
Get out and I don’t want to be stuck in America for 16 days when I’ve got paperwork to sign here and a move to happen so what we’ve decided on that score is that we are going back to Route 66 and doing that half in fact we might
Even do all of it again that’s two years away but two years will Zoom by folks if I’m still on the planet in 2 years we are going back and what that will mean is that that will be the 100 years for Route 66 I apologize deeply for
Canceling the Route 66 to Chicago over to Texas story so sorry folks it ain’t going to happen let’s move on okay this brings us now to this 543210 format thing I’ve done 5 years I’ve been into EVS that 5 years has shot by I don’t even know where the years has
Gone for Christ’s sake blind me 5 years ago I was still in full-time employment 5 years ago just over yes oh yes it would it been 5 years this month when I sold my last big V8 American muscle car that was a 5 L GT in Black the new shape
Or the newish shape the first of that new shape left hand drive full American spec we’re in a right hand drive rubbish one even had the red lights at the back and everything anyway since then with no regrets I have electric vehicles and I’ve had four two I’ve still got now one
I’m sitting in you know this the Tesla and the little red one which is in front of me now the wife’s little seat me so we’ve still got two but we’ve had four overall so I think my knowledge base and they’ve all been different my knowledge
Base of ownership for four EVs and the electric van will be the the fifth hopefully coming up very very soon gives me the right I would say of Passage doing I would say roughly I’m not far off 50,000 m now of pure EV motoring so and I know that’s nothing in comparison
To a lot of people out there which I think is great and it goes to prove that how sweet these things are and that I would never go back to Fossil let’s move on now the four cars I’ve actually owned they’ve all been mentioned on this channel in fact my son’s had very
Similar car to me and again I’ve mentioned it in one or two posts before my first EV was a Nissan Leaf a 24 KW hour Nissan Leaf so it had about 21 usable in the battery pack it was on 12 bars it was pretty much identical to
What you see here this is the American spec but this is exactly the same as mine had the same alloy wheels the silver door handles electric mirrors heated and fold in uh let me think about this B system there in the trunk uh great sound system satava standard um
With the Techna came with heated seats front and back full leather inside of course very very easy to drive the only real thing i’ say bad about the Nissan Leaf is that you went above 60 65 mph and you were eating into that electricity that battery pack was great
Around town don’t get me wrong and the region was superb for an early well Pioneer of of EVS the difference is you got down the m to away you followed the normal ice traffic at 6570 7580 and I know we shouldn’t do any more than 70 but everyone does they flow the traffic
Um and you start hitting that 70 plus definitely and it used to go down real quick off that gauge you could see the battery level dropping rapidly could I knock that n Lee for anything no I could not it was a great first EV and even today apart from it having chademo
Charging system could get one that you just wanted to do a bit of grocery getting in or taking the kids to school um or commuting 20 mile either way an early Nissan Leaf for around 5 to six grand is a great little investment especially if you go for the top of the
Range one which I had great car I cannot that so that was my very very first EV owned that for a year did about 12 to 14,000 in that over the year never let me down never never spent a penny on parts so that Nissan Leaf was a great first
EV now this next one BMW I3 this is the one that cost me a lot more money but again it was one of those quite specialist cars but at the time when I bought this four years ago or just just under four years three and a half four years ago
The I3 was still very much a Marite car and that is still the same now but it has got a massive fan base the I3 is a super car I mean it will go down in the history box along with the Nissan leapy in the first as a classic electric car
Now all you ice non-believers out there looking at me saying there’s not going to be such things as classic cars of course there will electric cars will be the classic cars the ones where I’m I’m driving now in 10 years and they’ll still be on the road and even if they’re
Not they’ll have the batteries replaced if that’s your thing about every EV on the road as a battery replacement um they’ll be replaced so yes they will come future Classics so the ice cars that are here today will just melt away their ice good see what I did there they
Will melt away into Oblivion now the I3 there was variance you know um you could get the Rex version which was the range extender little tiny 0.6 L engine in the back that’s the one I went for now purely went for that vehicle instead of just the battery one because at the time
I couldn’t find a low mileage battery only I3 that suited me the one I bought was mint absolutely brilliant condition quite lowish mileage everything worked on it it was fully loaded apart from the better sound system that was available it had the sun roof the twin sunroof
Thing and everything else and it’s on this channel in fact it’s here look yep that one there I put loads of time and effort into the I3 I loved it and if you want to go and watch that please please do and there’s even one uh
Here yep that’s all about parts for I3 and accessories so go and check that one out because again that’s a great video if you just bought an I3 and you want to put some accessories on it and some add-ons anyway moving on so the I3 was
The second EV we had and again I think we did about 18,000 miles in that in the year and a half that we had it nearly two years actually that had it and um never went wrong again my second EV no nothing ever purchased for it it went
Straight through an mot no problem I didn’t spend a dime on that car oh tell a lie I think I had some tires for it yeah but tires are tires wearables the reason why we went for the Rex the range extender I wanted to get away from fossil fuels completely but
The wife was happier if it had the Rex she had a very big battery anxiety problem um she she hasn’t got that now with the Tesla but she did have with that Rex it never bothered me because when we traveled in it we did do a lot
Of traveling to the east coast and back in it on a regular basis went down London in it a couple of times I think or whatever it did its miles and we were never ever sure of of finding a charger to use by the way and that’s when things
Were very very cheap as well before the onslaught of up prices on electricity um but she wanted this Rex as a backup knowing that if we didn’t want to stop we could get home without stopping at a charger well we only used that Rex once officially and that was we
Were coming back from the east coast once and I say oh look we can charge up here going take us 30 40 minutes we’ll stop for a coffee and but we decided now let’s get home so we let the battery drain down to its 6 or 8% the Rex came
On and it got us home at 55 60 MPH all the way back to to base not a problem at all did about 45 M on the Rex um very small fuel tank on those range extenders um but if I add one again today I would
Not have the Rex now you’re asking why well simply because we’ve come on Leaps and Bounds and there is a the next I3 came out with a bigger battery anyway the 42 now that was far better that could just about push 200 mile in the summer if you if you used it very
Carefully whereas the one I had was good for about 120 in the summer on actual battery power itself and then you had the Rex for about 50 to 60 M on top but no if I bought one again it would be a full Bev it wouldn’t I wouldn’t look at
The Rex anymore we’ve come on Leaps and Bounds with electric cars battery Technology’s got far better there’s more range to pick from now as well for your money and obviously because of that better spec cars are out there uh with better range etc etc so I wouldn’t buy
The Rex again I also think it’s outdated now because you’re using fossil fuel as your backup source and there really is no need for that now this is why I’m quite anti-hybrid because I don’t believe they really should be used now I think there’s a lot of good EVS out there that
Don’t really need to be hybrids they could be full electric because you’ve got a far better range now on a lot of vehicles you’ve got far more charges than we ever had when I started out in EVS so if I can live with it on a daily
Basis and that’s when I was working don’t forget and commuting as well sometimes no problems no issues but I wouldn’t buy the Rex so what happened after the I3 well like I say the I3 cost me nothing it did exactly what it did on
The said on the can um it took us every way we wanted to go with zero issues so why did I sell it you may ask well I sold it because I always wanted a model 3 that takes us on to now okay regards the model 3 I’m not going to dwell on
This there are loads on my channel as you can see there as I’m flipping through them from reviews to add-ons to extras to why I missed it when it went away everything a full year review look on the model 3 went out a year Tesla Service lots and lots and even the
Two-year review in 2022 same as the red little one I’ve got in front of me here now again I’m not going to dwell on this because you’ve seen it many times on this channel views like this look posts like this look here you go plenty of them to see help
Yourself on the channel now the rest of the mileage has been done on these two cars never cost us a dime and never ever let us down the only money we spent is on Electricity now we all know that these things in front of me here are costly all cars are expensive however this little red thing here which has been made since 2013 I believe maybe sooner anyway this thing here the petrol version of this was around 12 to 13,000 brand
New this seat me electric in 2020 when it first came out was nearly £20,000 yeah an expensive little car you got no more than a few more options of standard like air conditioning and and a few bits and Bobs heated mirrors and a heated screen over the petrol you got
The Alloys but all that was not worth anywhere near the extra £7,000 moving on a bigger shocker cost again this one my own Tesla I didn’t pay what I’m going to say in a moment for this vehicle I bought it 3month old as you well know this topped out at an incredible
51,500 retail asking price by Tesla when there was a shortage and a waiting list of around 10 months so again cost would I pay anywhere near £51,000 for a model 3 now no course you would not back in the day it was the going price and the waiting lists were there
So people were paying the premiums for them same as these now would I pay anything near 20,000 for a new one of these no I bought this used at just over 10K a bit of a bargain so cost has been an issue with electric cars and these
Two are perfect examples of that let me put this in more of a perspective term for you here the biggest shocker is not this Tesla and it’s not that thing behind me the biggest shocker was the BMW i3 back in 2014 2013 when they first came out for a
Very basic low range EV they were nearly £40,000 that my friends is a lot of money I paid considerably less than that for my I3 obviously but it was because it was used with around 28,000 on the clock I believe we paid 19 for that but even
That at 19 still sounds expensive for what you’re actually getting because an equivalent petrol car with the kind of spec the I3 had would have been more around the 15 if not even cheap cheaper and when we had that that was I believe around 6 years old now the not so bad
One was the Nissan Leaf I paid £8,000 for it yes it had lowest mileage for the for the uh year of car but it was the only basic 24 kwatt hour Leaf it wasn’t any bigger wasn’t the 30 kwatt one um which came out at the time when I bought
Mine that was a 2013 and the cost of that 8K was again expensive but I did make money on it so yes cost is a big one or was that’s the difference now because cost now for EVS is far less they have dropped considerably since I bought that Tesla out front which can’t
Be bad for consumers and definitely good for anyone who wants to get their first EV be it new or used because obviously the used Market has also come down so cost now is not really a problem but it definitely was when I first had my first EV prices were Ridiculous suicide doors I like them the only down there is you cannot open this back one without opening this one first bit of a pain um so yeah to shut it it’s the same you got to shut that one first before that one it was always a
Minor gripe of mine regarding the doors on the back of the I3 you could not get out the back until someone opened the front door for you bit of a bad design flaw but hey it made it quirky but I wish that had put a bit more time into those
Doors okay heat pumps heat pumps on EVS all started many years ago Believe It or Not Nissan was the first that actually did the heat pump um on the Nissan Leaf from 2013 near enough across the board apart from there was one very lowbudget one which you could buy the cheapest
Version which didn’t have it fitted heat pumps make a massive difference to the heating and cooling of any electric vehicle and it also dictates how much range you get the Tesla one found in the model 3 is probably the best out there to be fny I’m not just saying it’s got a
Tesla top on it’s just the fact of it the Nissan Leaf one wasn’t as nowhere near as complex as as light and as small and as compact as the Tesla one is now but Nissan were on point to actually put a heat pump in the very early Nissan
Leaves we’ve had four cars as you know and the two cars that didn’t have heat pumps uh with the cat me which we still got now and also believe it or not very surprisingly the BMW i3 I thought that would have had heat pump but no they
Were optional and I think it made a difference of a a couple of thousand pound to to get the heat pump as fitted in and ready to go a bit of a flaw really for BMW to actually charge you as an option and an extra because that
Thing really did need a heat pump fitted so with that I3 if we had say 70 M left in it h on the Range and we turn the heater on it would go down to around 55 mile so you know 15 m is a big thing
When you’ve got a small battery EV the Tesla don’t even see it don’t even feel any difference at all obviously because it’s got a brilliant heat pump same as the wife’s little SE at me we do see a big difference in that especially in the winter you put your heating on um and
You can lose 15 20% of your range you going to buy an EV buy one with a heat pump okay this brings us on to the two major gains that I’ve seen by moving on to EVs and off ice cars now don’t forget I had over four Decades of ice from Big
V8 to small four pots to basically everything you know from limousines RVs been there done it so I’ve got to look at this as a a gain over what I had the Speed the expense the smells the noise and everything else and I think the first one that obviously comes to mind
Straight the way as an advantage over ice is that I do 90% of my fueling up at home now as an an ice owner you can’t fuel up at home the nearest you’ll get is to have a gallon of fuel in your trunk or whatever or in your shed and
You put it in if you fall short ain’t the same as having an EV so massive bonus to me is that I can come home anytime takes me 30 seconds to 45 seconds to plug a lead in get in my house and let it do its thing as I’m
Sleeping drinking you know eating socializing whatever so that’s number one massive for me that now I would say my number two Gain Is completing every mile knowing that the people behind me in my car in any any Village any Town any City any traffic jam is breathing Quality Air probably
Breathing worse air from their own car one of the big draws to me of owning an EV is the fact that I’m not polluting the air quality where I am at that time time using that vehicle so every mile I do in front of you in front of your kids
And in front of your grandma and your granddad and every time I pass a school you know I am not polluting and giving those kids and those elderly people any problems with any of their respiratory part of their body and I’m keeping my air clean from the back of my
Car so I think that’s number two and I think that’s a great thing so all you Eva owners should be very proud of that fact that every mile you do you’re not polluting like every single mile that an ice car owner does I.E from Petrol and Diesel pollutes everywhere they go get
Behind a diesel get behind a Modern Diesel even you can smell it you know you can see the black dust and the black smoke coming out of diesels and especially some of the older ones that in my opinion shouldn’t be on the road now and if they are on the road should
Be paying a hell of a lot of tax road tax Ved I passed that one in previous posts okay I’ve got to be honest with this um this number one annoys me now even at at this stage that was that black tesar outside now it was purely my choice
Purely wrong timing by me and before I go into this I will say that all of my fossil fuel life I’ve made money on cars I wouldn’t say I was a car dealer I wasn’t I was a parts dealer but at the same time when you’re buying a car for
Yourself you put a few new parts on it and you sell it out and every single one I I basically made profit on over 40 odd years of ice cars so I’ve got to take that into consideration of my motoring history when I talk about this one outside this was very expensive my
Timing was very wrong I I wanted a model 3 a year before I actually bought one but at that time I didn’t have the money so I took it on myself to go out and buy an EV and I bought a Tesla now when I bought that model 3 they were asking top
Top money for them there was a 10-month waiting list for a new one so I thought okay I’ll get out there and buy a 3-month old one I could get one instantly straight the way and I want take one simple so I paid top top dollar stroke pound
Sterling now I paid 47k for that and that will never ever be that price again you’ll never find a model 3 anywhere near that price but don’t forget at that time it was either a 10-month waiting list and pay 522k or get one straight
The way at 3mon old about 3,000 M on the clock 447 I jumped for the 47 the thing is with that I own that car for 6 months and then Elon Musk bless him knocked a massive 7 or 8,000 off the price of a new model 3 so
Real bad timing by myself and not only did I lose 8 Grand overnight when he did this on a brand new one cuz obviously the secondhand Market fell brand new one’s now under 40K there is a video on this it’s called Uh EV depreciation um
And I do feel that Mr musk took most Tesla owners for a bit of a a laugh and a joke when he dropped prices down 8 Grand overnight and that happened in the states as well as it did here so that is my number one and that’s the most
Expensive EV I will ever ever buy now a lot of you out there are thinking wow you’ve lost an awful lot of money I don’t know what you what it’ fetch now I have no idea if the top me head I would like to still think it would fetch 30 or
Just under it’s only done 177,000 mile it’s in real good condition I put loads of extras on it as well as you well know and that’s an upcoming video of all my Tesla Model 3 extras that will be on here in around 2 or 3 weeks time so look
Out for that one um so yeah at the end of the day from that 47k price that I paid to get 30 maybe back for it if I’m lucky 31 I don’t know I don’t know what kind of one is are petting um I’d like
To think 30 if I could get 30 back for it I.E tomorrow that’s 17K down in 2 years now that seems an awful amount of massive loss but it isn’t a loss one I’ve still got the car two I’m still using it and three I’m getting 2/3 of
The price back but you got to look at that 17K and realized that eight of that was down to Mr M so I’ve only actually the car itself is actually only lost 9k in two stroke 2 and a quar years everything loses car prices lose if I
Bought a big BMW diesel 2 years ago for 55 65,000 that thing would be fetching about 30k now it’s the same as if I bought a Range Rover to and years ago at £80,000 those things you can get for 40,000 now so there are far bigger
Losses on more cars out there than my little black Tesla so it ain’t just EVS losing money so yeah that’s that’s the number one really that was the expensive one that you know again totally down to me no regrets whatsoever and that’s brings it down to the final one you know
Not I have no regrets of anything that EV land has thrown at me in fact overall I do believe I’m better off now over the last 5 years if I take everything into consideration then I would have been with a nice car so that kind of puts it
All together really I hope you’ve enjoyed this one it was just my take on my five years and four cars and blah blah blah blah blah to kind of give you an aspect of what you you going to get things are very very weird at the moment
The EV Market is is coming down in price all the time which is great which is great because it gives people the chance of getting an EV when they couldn’t afford one before so it makes the EV Market a fantastic opportunity why would you go out and spend 30 Canon ice car
Now and you can get a superb EV for 25 just saying don’t hesitate about buying an EV do not listen to any of the the idiots on YouTube or Tik Tok going on about oh buy yourself an old car 20 years old and run that it’s cleaner and
Greener no they’re not because they’re polluting every mile subscribe if you’ve not thanks for Watching
After FIVE YEARS and FOUR EV’s I have a few tales to tell. This 5,4,3,2,1 take on my last 5 years of motoring hopefully covers it all.
Has my attitude changed toward ownership?
Is it still as strong?
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