Hello All,
I have been thinking of getting an EV for a very long time, but something still holds me back. I live in Malta [Europe], just a 27km long island, overcrowded with people and cars! so EV makes sense considering that it is like driving in one big city all the time. Just to give you an idea, my stats from our BMW 5 series are an average speed of 31km/h over the last 3000km done...so EV makes sense. My daily journey is around 40km per day.
The problem is the weather; I have been reading a lot and watching a lot of YouTube channels. So basically the weather here is on the warm side... I would say from January to April ranging from 10 deg C to 25 deg C, from May to June around 30 deg C, July and Aug 38 - 42 deg C, Sept to October 32 - 35 deg C, and from November to December 15 - 20 deg C .... so it is a tough summer excluding heatwaves and all temps are in the shade. In the sun it will be much more than that in summer. My charging option will be mostly in the sun all year round.
The cheapest EV one can get here is a 2014/15 Nissan Leaf 24kwh [around 5k - 7k Euro with 60k km]. The problem that most of them are on 6 to 9 bars already probably due to the heat?? practically speaking, from experience how much would the battery last any longer considering it is already 10 years old. Is it a risk worth taking? As time goes by will degradation accelerate even more? I don't like to spend more since I still have young children etc...plus a 2018/19 one will set you around Euro 20K.
Any ideas and suggestions are welcome as over the internet you read all types of contradicting info.
Not sure if a plug-in will make more sense to me due to 40km daily. My BMW is heavy on diesel due to traffic.. averaging 9.8l/100km...and with costs going up..not sure it is worth it anymore.
Thank you.
I have been thinking of getting an EV for a very long time, but something still holds me back. I live in Malta [Europe], just a 27km long island, overcrowded with people and cars! so EV makes sense considering that it is like driving in one big city all the time. Just to give you an idea, my stats from our BMW 5 series are an average speed of 31km/h over the last 3000km done...so EV makes sense. My daily journey is around 40km per day.
The problem is the weather; I have been reading a lot and watching a lot of YouTube channels. So basically the weather here is on the warm side... I would say from January to April ranging from 10 deg C to 25 deg C, from May to June around 30 deg C, July and Aug 38 - 42 deg C, Sept to October 32 - 35 deg C, and from November to December 15 - 20 deg C .... so it is a tough summer excluding heatwaves and all temps are in the shade. In the sun it will be much more than that in summer. My charging option will be mostly in the sun all year round.
The cheapest EV one can get here is a 2014/15 Nissan Leaf 24kwh [around 5k - 7k Euro with 60k km]. The problem that most of them are on 6 to 9 bars already probably due to the heat?? practically speaking, from experience how much would the battery last any longer considering it is already 10 years old. Is it a risk worth taking? As time goes by will degradation accelerate even more? I don't like to spend more since I still have young children etc...plus a 2018/19 one will set you around Euro 20K.
Any ideas and suggestions are welcome as over the internet you read all types of contradicting info.
Not sure if a plug-in will make more sense to me due to 40km daily. My BMW is heavy on diesel due to traffic.. averaging 9.8l/100km...and with costs going up..not sure it is worth it anymore.
Thank you.