Originally Posted by John V6
Thanks that shows what I have always thought. Also I suspect by 170,000 kms you would need to replace the batteries or put up with lower performance. Either of which adds to the emissions.

I wonder how the impact of scrapping & recycling works out


A Tesla, supposedly, has a battery pack capable of 1,500 cycles - or 500,000 miles. I don't believe that - but if it went 170,000 I would be perfectly happy. 170,000 petrol miles would cost me £60,000 Vs £5,000 in volts. That's ignoring road tax, servicing etc.

I didn't buy mine to save newts, but it it does, whoopie-do. smile I am also told that old battery packs will be 're-purposed' for energy storage etc. The tech is still quite new and the anti's haven't quite resolved their arguments yet.

Road pricing (a charge per mile) is bound to happen at some point. The loss of revenue from petrol taxation is going to become a major issue - even my fag packet cost calculation would be a loss to the exchequer of £48k in petrol tax - from me personally. That's a huge individual number.

A few months into EV ownership and I have to say I would find it hard not to buy an EV if I was in the market for a new car. When measuring like for like, the costs are not that much higher - a Tesla 3 is roughly equivalent to a petrol BMW 3 and, of course, much cheaper to run over a few years on current energy pricing.

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