Geely E2 Apex, pull the trigger or am I going mad?

[Steamy Tom]

You have proper solar at home that could charge it etc, right?

Interesting, sobering argument.

I do. Say you buy 400k car, then add onto it insurance and maintenance etc. assume you charge it completely free.

Compare that to buying a 200k car, with cheaper insurance and also needing maintenance, yes assume here you have no limited service plan. How many tanks/km could you do before you make up that additional 200k...

 

[Craig_]

There’s this thing called planning.

But also a “road trip” is not zooming from Cape Town to Johannesburg in one sitting, it’s an adventure across multiple days.

I pretty much never drive more than 250km in a day on any trip.

I'd love an electric car, and might actually buy one in a few years, but I've done 1 000 km a day trips many times over the last 10 years, less so now and maybe not too soon again.

So I'm not too sure this will work for me just yet, but maybe in a few years when the kids are out of the house and we have more available time I can see me doing long trips in short bursts like you. Then this will work for me.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I'd love an electric car, and might actually buy one in a few years, but I've done 1 000 km a day trips many times over the last 10 years, less so now and maybe not too soon again.

So I'm not too sure this will work for me just yet, but maybe in a few years when the kids are out of the house and we have more available time I can see me doing long trips in short bursts like you. Then this will work for me.

Yeah if you are that kind of person who wants to do a 1000km in a day it’s more tricky but not impossible either but requires a bit more route planning.

I’ve personally just never seen the value in travelling like that.

It’s not some sort of manly achievement and also means you are in a constant rush, up at all hours and don’t get to see any of the travelling you are doing.

 

[Craig_]

Yeah if you are that kind of person who wants to do a 1000km in a day it’s more tricky but not impossible either but requires a bit more route planning.

I’ve personally just never seen the value in travelling like that.

It’s not some sort of manly achievement and also means you are in a constant rush, up at all hours and don’t get to see any of the travelling you are doing.

True, but I don't like spending days on the road. I'd rather have more time at my destination.

 

[SauRoNZA]

True, but I don't like spending days on the road. I'd rather have more time at my destination.

I mean part of that is probably choosing the wrong transport in the first place.

If you are spending days on the road and seeing no point in the journey then take a plane instead.

For me I take 5-6 day bike trip once a year just to do the journey; it is the destination because it just loops back home.

 

[Craig_]

I mean part of that is probably choosing the wrong transport in the first place.

If you are spending days on the road and seeing no point in the journey then take a plane instead.

For me I take 5-6 day bike trip once a year just to do the journey; it is the destination because it just loops back home.

It works out more expensive for a family of 4 to fly, and then still get a rental. And a big chunk of the time I had products that I needed to take with me and needed a bakkie with a trailer, so flying would then have have worked even more expensive.

But yeah, in time it will work for me, now is not that time yet.

And you're traveling by bike, that probably makes the trip 10 times more fun, so then it makes sense to take your time. It's probably also very tiring driving long distance on the bike.