Would you buy an electric vehicle?

Would you buy an electric vehicle?

  • Yes - I already own one.

    Votes: 3 2.4%
  • Yes - I will consider one when I buy my next car.

    Votes: 23 18.5%
  • No - Combustion engines all the way!

    Votes: 19 15.3%
  • No - They are too expensive.

    Votes: 36 29.0%
  • No - There is not enough support for electric vehicles in South Africa

    Votes: 27 21.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 16 12.9%

  • Total voters
    124

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Would you buy an electric vehicle?
 
No. Too expensive. Can hardly afford an old fashioned one.
 
Sure.
Tried out petrol, diesel, NA, turbo.
Be keen to give electric a go.
 
In the future when the price plateaus down, definitely. Right now though, hybrids make more sense for my journeys or I would stick with diesel indefinitely.
 
For me, its more the curiosity, would rent one for a weekend, get it out of my system, then get back into my diesel and carry on with life
 
Other - Combustion is the better choice now but.. hopefully real less-polluting improvements will come, maybe via Hydrogen.
 
If I could find a cheap one I could afford I would, we have two cars and only once in the last 14 years have we needed to use both cars for long distance at the same time. So one car does only short trips permanently which would be perfect if it's electric and I could charge it at home.
 
Nope. Doesn't make any sense to me. Unless I has excess solar power to charge the thing, in SA you are still using fossil fuels to charge it.
 
No. We all know that cars are a money pit and bad investments.
Now you pay way over the top price for a vehicle that will have a extremely poor secondhand value due to the cost of replacing batteries.
Rather waste your money on beer and boobs.
 
Other: Yes, but not right now. Give it another 5 years or so for battery tech and charging infrastructure to improve.
 
I'm very keen on going electric, but with the bullshit taxes I'm not willing to piss money away for no good reason just to say I went electric.

Which is why I bought a Hybrid now that runs in fully electric most of the time at urban speeds as I'm pretty sure my next car will be fully electric in a few years time.

Down the line after a little solar upgrade and when the stupid taxes go away it will make a lot more sense.
 
I like the idea of electric ,especially the few moving parts. There are more moving parts in an ICE gearbox than a whole electric car. There is almost nothing to service or replace, brake pads last forever due to regenerative braking, no oil changes, no coolant changes, no clutch, etc.

But then manufactures go and negate that advantage by adding tons of unnecessary gimmicks, like electrically opening doors and other nonsense. All that does is add cost and more things to that will break and require service.

There is definite scope for more entry level models without all the gimmicks. But apparently they aren't manufactured as the cost of the battery is such a high percentage of the vehicle cost that removing the gimmicks don't make a huge price difference. Hopefully increased competition in the battery market will change that.
 
Nope, they will bite you in the @rse

Also I travel 300km a day on occasions and without notice so it'll not shape up.

Too expensive and the life expectancy too short with huge costs.

Marked other but it's actually a no.
 
I would love to own one as a runabout but the cost is too much at the moment and we have needs for larger vehicles at the moment with two young boys, a dog and hobbies.
 
Other: maybe someday, really depends on what's on offer when the time comes, generally they're too expensive and for the most part still come with too many compromises ... and I love engine noises, gonna be missing that for sure
 
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