Is there finally about to be a Brexit dividend? The EU & US are placing tariffs on Chinese EVs, but Britain isn't. So British drivers will soon have a welcome choice. Cheap well-made Chinese EVs whose EV charging means they travel 100 kilometres for a third of the price an average combustion engine car does.
Yet another death knell for fossil fuels and combustion engine cars.
In Britain, BYD will soon sell its Seagull EV tariff-free for $26,100 (£20,550) – and traveling per kilometer, fuel will cost just a third of gasoline prices.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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Wow yeah 20 grand electric cars make Brexit all worth it – finally.
It’s still £20k on a car. Thats a lot of money for people.
It’s a shit car though. Call me when Brexit gave me an Audi for 20k
The same car sells for about
£6k in China. Only small differences due to standards and regulations.
A third?
There are EV tarrifs of 5 cent per kWh. An EV uses 16kWh per 100km. That’s ,£0.8 per 100km.
Meanwhile diesel is £ 1.44 per liter. A very modern diesel consumes 4.5 liter per 100km. That’s £6.48 per 100km.
So it’s more than 8 times cheaper!
I look forward to buying that for £2K in 2058 after 4 other people drive its mileage over 100k.
If you’re gonna spend 20k on a car, there’s countless better options than BYD. If you’re going electric on a budget you are far far better off with a Renault 5. It costs a bit more but is all round an excellent car, not just for the cost.
> Cheap well-made Chinese EVs
Curious. Are they being retrofitted to UK standards at that price?
It’s £269 / month on PCP for the base model with a tiny 30kWh battery.
£309/ month for the good spec. Not exactly a hot deal, is it?
I looked at driving an EV down to London but chargers cost a fortune – around £0.80/kWh which works out double the costs of driving a diesel so I dont really get the excitement.
Also Ocotpus energy has announced a partnership with BYD. Where you get a leased BYD Dolphin at £300 per month and home charging is free for the lifetime of the lease.
I use public transit and Uber. Who needs to own a car in a big city?
So why exactly is the price hike so extreme if it’s tariff free?
That is like three times the cost in China.
Octopus energy have announced a bidirectional charger and leasing deal.
£300 per month for a brand new car, with fuel (electricity) included
shame it’s made with slave labour and by a company which is basically just tanking billions of pounds worth of debt to out-price and outlast the competition which has no way of competing
Confusing title. Fuel was using to mean electricity/energy.