I can well understand the negativity around EV, and more so if one feels forced into driving one as a company car. If your good lady does less than a few hundred miles on a daily basis, hopefully she can charge the car at home for most of the time which minimises the inconvenience of re fuelling...(-:
I fully admit that my Tesla is considered no more than a very convenient personal transport device, When I picked it up I asked when it was due it`s first service, and was told "we would not expect to see it till it`s first MOT....As best I can remember it cost £44k new and a year later with circa 3k miles covered when renewing it`s insurance, it was reckoned to be valued at around £25 to £27k, so quite a bit more depreciation than the average fridge..?
A further two years on and it still only has circa 9k on the clock I hardly ever use the brakes, and am well used to one pedal driving using re-gen to slow up in traffic and to bring it to a stop, I have to remember to make use of the brakes to give them a bit of exercise and stop the discs from rusting up.
Also that all recent/new ICE propelled vehicles have a similarly high degree of on board tec as an EV, it seems logical that with only an electric motor and no gearbox involved there is far less to go wrong..
Once your good lady gets used to the convenience factor of an EV, I would suspect she might not ever want to go back to a dirty smelly and noisy ICE ....(-:
Hoe it all goes as well as I suspect it will for you both.
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