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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Forgot to put 30 before KW. 

I believe the Leaf, or it could be the Prius (should that read 'pious' ) came with a choice of 2 battery sizes.

Presumably 30KW is the smaller size. But if it is enough for your daily needs then that is all you need.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

To balance out saving the planet with an electric car you should also consider a 1000cc sport bike with 230BHP.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Too old for that now. Arthritis all over the bloody place. 
Bouncing down the road in your youth catches up with you when you get old. 

First generation Leaf had 20kw battery, then it went up to 30kw, then 40.
I think the latest ones might be more than that ? Not sure tbh.

[Doctor Gollum]

Forgot to put 30 before KW. 

No wonder the range is so poor

Joking aside we had a couple of them new ones at the airport. Within a year they could barely manage 45 miles on a single charge

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Must have been fast charging every day ?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Forgot to put 30 before KW. 

No wonder the range is so poor

Joking aside we had a couple of them new ones at the airport. Within a year they could barely manage 45 miles on a single charge

Assuming 3 miles covered for each KW of 'leccy' I suggest it should do about 90miles.

 Even the I-Pace ( a car not known for being frugal with electricity) has managed to cover 2.7miles for each KW of charge over the last 3000 miles.

With a 'usable' battery of 84.7KW this equates to 229miles. Recently developed modern floats will easily manage 300 miles with a battery of the same capacity.

 

[TheBoy]

If the range is and remains good enough for your commute in, and you can charge it for free, then £1800 is a bargain really

When you want to go out somewhere else, you have other cars to use

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Too old for that now. Arthritis all over the bloody place. 
Bouncing down the road in your youth catches up with you when you get old. 

First generation Leaf had 20kw battery, then it went up to 30kw, then 40.
I think the latest ones might be more than that ? Not sure tbh.

A quick google shows that the latest Leaf can have a battery of up to 62KW.

Pre 2018 cars much less, and with no 'management system' as mentioned by TB.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

If the range is and remains good enough for your commute in, and you can charge it for free, then £1800 is a bargain really

When you want to go out somewhere else, you have other cars to use

My thinking exactly. Commuting or nipping down the shop for a pint of milk, drive the Leaf.
Any proper journey, use the Omega. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

If the range is and remains good enough for your commute in, and you can charge it for free, then £1800 is a bargain really

When you want to go out somewhere else, you have other cars to use

My thinking exactly. Commuting or nipping down the shop for a pint of milk, drive the Leaf.
Any proper journey, use the Omega. 

Yep....if it does the job that is all that's required.

Also £1800 is only 6 months of monthly payments on a new chinky box .

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Still more than I usually pay for cars.
I only paid £560 for my Omega nine years ago. 
I spent at least a couple of grand getting it how I wanted it over the following couple of years though.
I even paid less than two grand for the Boxster and made a profit when I sold it. 

[henryd]

Yep. Its what I will use once in a while to put some electricity in the milk float at home.
Public chargers area definite no for me, except in a real emergency. It would probably be cheaper to use the Omega than charge up with one of those.

My Son has a corsa E and uses the tesla chargers through an app, much cheaper than many of the other chargers

[Viral_Jim]

Yep. Its what I will use once in a while to put some electricity in the milk float at home.
Public chargers area definite no for me, except in a real emergency. It would probably be cheaper to use the Omega than charge up with one of those.

My Son has a corsa E and uses the tesla chargers through an app, much cheaper than many of the other chargers

Also, the Leafs all have a Chademo connector, which is the Betamax of the ev charging world, and a converter to CCS, which is now the standard is somewhere around £300  . So no Tesla charging on that one. The Corsa E is a decent little runabout with decent range for that size of car 

The supercharger network really is Tesla's secret sauce, so much better and easier than anything a competitor organisation has come up with.

[Marks DTM Calib]

£1700 for a 9 year old car is SFA. I don't see that you can go very far wrong  at that price.

In the seventies your average car would be almost scrap after 9 years because of the tin worm, but a 2017 car should be game for a few years yet.

How many KW of 'elastictrickery' does your PP9 hold?......50 miles doesn't sound a lot.

Mrs Opti's milk float has a 90KW battery of which 86.5 KW is 'usable' don't ask me what they do with the other 3.5 KW.

That is simple, the battery is designed so that ypu never actaully fully charge or discharge the cells. so when it says 100%, it is actaully lower, and when its says 0% it is actually higher............something VAG should have done on thier first EVs as they lose capacity at an alarming rate!

[STEMO]

A bit like the memory that's stated on, say, an iPad. You think you're getting 64Gb until you realise that 15 is taken up with the system, and another 5 kept for updates.
Not exact numbers but you get the jist of it.