I am serious consideriing leasing an EV in the next 12-18mths. I have obviously done some research.
It would probably be a Corsa E as the lease costs are around £200 a monrh and I could probably afford that.
Real world range is around 170miles meaning I would have to recharge every three days. My commute is a 50m round trip.(My current petrol Corsa manages about 390 miles between fill ups. A fill up takes about 5 mins every 7 days as I do it at 6.15am)
The Corsa take 8hrs to 100% charge on a 7kw, or 30mins to 80% charge on a 50Kw.
There are no lamp post chargers in Rushden, and only 4 'fastish' charges (22kw). No 50kw or 100kw ones. We have a further 12 x 7kw ones. However they're all on the local retail park, and it often takes 30 mins just to get on the park, let alone find a parking space with an available charger. Also not on my route to or from work.
My workplace has no chargers. MK has 65 rapid 50KW chargers, but every three days I would either have to get to into MK an hour or so earlier (6.00am) to get charged before I started work at 7.00am, .or resign myself to spending few hours afterwork driving round trying to find an empty charger and getting home late. I couldn't leave the car there all day, as it would mean a long walk to work and back, and they charge £10 an hour after the first 90 minutes.
Thankfully, I forked out £2000 a few years ago to have a dropped kerb put in, so can park on my drive (alhough my house deeds say otherwise).and charge there overnight every three days.
So it will work for me, but I'm quite unique on my street having off road parking. Without it, I wouldn't consider an EV as the infrastructure is just not there.
