BEV - Battery Electric Vehicle Erfahrungsberichte und Empfehlungen

Phew yeah no the amount is way too high for me. I'm looking at about half of that. In that respect, the Ioniq 5 is also out. On Carwow, the MG 4 has better ratings than the Kona electric or ID.3. No idea why. I still have to wait a bit to see what the ZOE dealer offers me as a follow-up vehicle. He does used car "leasing" with imports from the Czech Republic. Basically, it’s officially a financing deal, but he always takes the car back at the end of the term. It's just gotten a bit weird with him lately because the funding conditions for the ZOE changed shortly before and the subsidy was removed. So presumably, he didn’t make any money with me on the ZOE. Since then, he hasn’t responded to my emails either. Maybe he’s just not interested anymore. Although I think that way he would at least have the chance to get back into the profit zone with me. So I have to call him in the next few days and ask what’s going on.

But please do not buy an electric car!

If you mean longevity – it’s worth differentiating. As a rule, I charge at home at 0.25C. That keeps the battery lasting very, very long. Of course, anyone who always charges "full throttle" at 2C or higher is naturally wearing out the battery.

Or for 25 EUR less a MG4 Luxury with 10,000 km/year and only 24 months lease to then see...

The Toyota bZ4X (stupid name) is high-quality and available with a favorable leasing factor. With the Chinese models, as with Tesla, I lack the trust that they handle the collected data in a user-friendly way. One quickly forgets that you are buying a connected always-on device that not only has tracking but also microphones and cameras, whose turning on and off you don’t control like with a phone.

If you mean longevity - it is worth differentiating. I usually charge at home at 0.25C. That makes the battery last very, very long. Of course, if you always charge "full blast" at 2C or higher, the battery naturally undergoes wear.

Not longevity. I can estimate that quite well - I have already gone through over 2,000 charge cycles with my plug-in, which would correspond to about 750,000 km in a normal BEV. I mean technological progress and depreciation (that's why e-car leasing is 5 times more common than combustion engine leasing).

I mean technological progress and depreciation (that's why e-car leasing is 5 times more common than combustion engine leasing).

The mega-trend in motorization is the networking and integration of vehicles into the digital lives of people. Rapid technological obsolescence affects cars in this aspect regardless of the type of drive. It becomes scary whenever systems are no longer supported by software – and this can increasingly happen regardless of the drive type. When I think about the updates my last diesel BMWs (F31 and G31) received and how prone EGR systems are, I am no longer so enthusiastic about the inherent value retention of combustion engines built today.

I am currently driving the Corsa-e, which is going back at the end of the lease. The car is great, the software not so much.

The successor model is still pending. I had the Hyundai Inster in mind, but unfortunately, it is too small (I am quite tall). I have looked at the MG4, Hyundai Kona, VW ID3 and tomorrow the Skoda Elroq. You have to like the MG4; the assistance systems are apparently not so reliable either. My favorite at the moment is the Elroq.

At the moment, what puts me off is that I can only get it somewhat affordably with a max of 5000 km/a and a 60M term in the Urban Range Edition. And then I think, I’d rather take the ID.3 in the 77kWh version with V2H functionality for 20-30 EUR more.

However, you shouldn’t overestimate V2H – currently, there are neither affordable wallboxes that can officially do that and are approved by VW, nor should you underestimate how limited the discharge cycles are from VW’s side (4,000 hours and/or max. 10,000 kWh). As it stands now, it hardly makes any sense overall.

Or an MG4 Luxury for 25 EUR less with 10,000 km/a and only a 24M term to then see...
Ah, decision paradox at its finest.

Besides the question of data handling (and appearance/finishing, but that is subjective), I would primarily focus on service with MG, especially in case of problems.

Although one could interpret the example negatively, my ID.4 had a problem with one of the cameras that create the 360-degree area view right from delivery. The car was definitely in the workshop at least 5 times because of this, sometimes the entire side was taken apart, they called Wolfsburg, brought in experts specifically, until after about 2 years they finally fixed the problem (2 pins on a cable were plugged in incorrectly).

You can certainly laugh about it or shake your head at why it took so long, but on the other hand, they always provided a replacement car, called me themselves to ask if and when I could bring the car in because they wanted to try something else, and of course, everything was done free of charge. I would very much doubt whether one can expect the same service from MG’s rather thinly developed network.