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New Mon 8 Nov 21 18:29 
 Small-ish EVs - PeterS
The car went back this morning…so actually more than 72 hours - more like 90.

In that time I travelled 150 miles - so pretty normal day to day use. I managed 126 before I plugged it in…lower than I’d let it get if I had one, as I’d do what we did with the e-tron and plug it in every night anyway. The MINI said it had 10 miles of charge left when I did plug it in.

It’s a nice thing to blat around town / urban / semi rural roads on. No downside to the petrol one as far as I can see, other than the higher upfront cost. But, cheap as chips to run. The 30ish kWh used to recharge it cost a little over a fiver on my fixed rate tariff (with a proper company who won’t be going bust any time soon). I reckon that’s about 4p per mile. The Clubman averages 38 mpg - that’s about 17p per mile. The Merc nearer 22. MINIs also have very reasonable service costs, so is only ever going to need servicing every couple of years. The tyres are runflats, but you can ‘downgrade’ to 17” wheels when ordering which would improve the ride further I think, and I’d guess at 8/10k miles a year would only need replacing every couple of years too.

Not that I needed converting, but it’d definitely work as a second car… it’d probably work as a main car, bar the long European trips for which a hire car would be needed, as would be the case for longer trips in the U.K. really. Having said that, there’s one of those car club things that operates in Chichester, so actually one could use that and it’s rather dull Toyota Corolla (?) estates for anything needing more space / longer range. I’m really quite tempted to order one…
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