Hybrid Or Full Electric Car? Wrong Choice Is Costly!
On a Sunday, I’m a YouTuber that makes videos about electric cars, solar panels, batteries, EV chargers, and anything around renewable technology. But Monday to Saturday, I run the family car dealership, which is a dealership that’s been selling cars for over 50 years. We sell a whole range of cars these days. We sell everything from electric cars, petrols, diesels, hybrids. Everything is sold under our roof. It’s the way the business has always been. And predominantly now we are selling more electric cars than ever before. And in this video I’m going to be telling you why making the wrong choice between a hybrid and an electric car could be very very costly for you and it could cost you a lot more money in repair bills but also a lot more money in depreciation when you come to sell it maybe in two or three years time. So to this video, I’m going to tell you what my advice is as a car dealer if I was buying a car for me personally or for business use because making the wrong choice could be very costly. So I get many people every day in work saying to me, I’m after a hybrid car. Now, when I have a quick chat with these people, it often transpires that they’re just not ready to make the initial jump to full electric. They may have some range anxiety or they may think that electric cars don’t currently suit their needs. They’ve read a lot in the paper that they don’t charge very fast, they don’t do very long range, and they just got this whole stigma of fear about range anxiety. So, they think a hybrid is their best solution. Now, let me just tell you, I’m not against hybrids. They do suit a very small subset niche of the population, but in the UK and Europe, it’s very unlikely that any one watching this video is in that niche. So most people who think they need a hybrid think that they occasionally may do a 200 300 mile stint and then they suddenly realize that that is a 2 and 1/2 3 or 4hour journey in which they would have naturally stopped for anyway. Most modern electric cars can charge up in a 15 to half an hour period which is about the stop that they typically take anyway just for a rest break when doing those journeys. And most EVs, depending on what you’re looking at these days, can do 250 mi on one trip anyway, in which case they’d already be at their destination. So, a lot of people have just got this stigma and fear about what charging speed actually is. And then they realize it’s a lot faster than it used to be. And then they also have this fear about range, which they realize EVs do a lot further than they think they do. Now, the niche people that hybrids do suit are people who drive for a living, who are doing long distances and doing multiple business promises. So, someone like a rep or someone who works in that kind of industry or or traveling industry where they they have to travel to long distances between clients. If you’re in that kind of industry, you’ll know that you have a very subsection of what you’re going to do. If you’re doing that, then maybe a chance that an EV would still suit you. In which case, I’d look at some of the EVs that are available because if you might be able to get an EV that does two 250 mi range and charges up almost to 80% in a 15 to 20 minute period, in which case you can make calls, do other things on your computer and time these around your stops. But I get there’s a very very subset of people that hybrids still suit. But majority of you watching this video today, a full EV would definitely suit you. We’re going to talk into why making the choice to hybrid or electric cars in the wrong direction can be very costly. So, you need to really consider which one would suit you better. Now, since I started this channel in 2016, the world of EVs has drastically changed. Back then, I used to be predominantly just doing electric cars on this channel. I didn’t do solar. I didn’t do batteries. I didn’t really do anything else around anything renewable. I just purely did electric cars because I could review every single electric car that was coming out. I could get my hands on them very easily. Today, the choice is vast. It’s huge. I just don’t have time to review the amount of electric cars that I used to be able to review. And mainstream people have moved into reviewing electric cars, which I’ll be honest, some of them will do better reviews on electric cars than I have because they have longer access to those electric cars than I have. I try and review the cars I can have long-term access to rather than the ones I can just get for a couple of hours off a manufacturer. So, if you are in the market for electric car these days, the chances are there is an electric car made for you new 100%. If you can afford a new car, there is an electric car that suits your needs fully. If you’re looking in the used market, chances are that used prices have come down so far in electric cars because of how many electric cars are available today. there’ll be a used electric car within or near your budget or at least your budget plus fuel savings. So, that is something to really look at. But there is a reason why I am slightly against buying a hybrid car. Now, look, as a garage point of view, I love hybrids. They are absolutely great. We have a workshop. It keeps the workshop busy. They still have an engine. That’s a mild hybrid or a plug-in hybrid. They still have an engine. They need regular servicing, oil changes, filter changes. They go wrong. There’s more parts to go wrong on a hybrid car, which we’ll get to in a minute, but they’re they’re just better for me as a garage point of view because they still require that regular maintenance. Now, a mild hybrid in my mind is a pretty much pointless vehicle because you’re adding a lot of extra weight for batteries, charging technology to run the mild hybrid, and you’re not really getting a massive substantial MPG gain. In fact, most petrol cars alone, just plain petrol cars, would get roughly the same MPG as most mild hybrids without that extra weight being carried around. Now, that’s why we’ll move on to plug-in hybrids. Now, now, plug-in hybrids are rarely plugged in. Most people who buy a plug-in hybrid are getting it through selling sacrifice schemes, work schemes, and they just don’t plug it in. they just get it because it’s slightly cheaper on benefit in kind taxes and they don’t plug them in that they basically run purely on petrol or diesel all the time. In which case, you might as well just bought a full petrol full diesel car because your MPG will be higher because instead of dragging around this big heavy battery and charging infrastructure in the vehicle, you you just have the engine doing the job because you’re already having the engine do a job in a plug-in hybrid. It very rarely charges up on sort of regen on a plug-in hybrid. you get a little bit more, but for the extra weight you’re carrying around, if you’re not plugging it in, plug-in hybrids are pretty much pointless. That they’re just a big heavy weight. Now, the other thing to consider with plug-in hybrids is a lot of people who do plug them in often find that they do 80% of all their driving on the electric part of the plug-in hybrid, and only 20% of their driving is actually then kicked in by fuel. But what they then realize is if they use that money that they paid for the plug-in hybrid to actually buy a full EV at the same cost, they’d have got much further range in a full EV for the same money. And pretty much all their driving, 100% of their driving would be covered by the electric range. And that is quite shocking to me that these people are convinced that they need a plug-in hybrid and then they realize that they could have just bought a full electric and had a 100% of their driving on full electric without the added costs of servicing and maintaining a hybrid engine. The other thing I don’t like about hybrids is you are buying, like I said, double the service work, but you’re also buying double the issues of going wrong. You’ve not just got a electric car with a battery and the motor and the charging stuff that can go wrong because they do go wrong. You know, electric cars can go cause, you know, have faults. You know, they’re rarer, but they are quite expensive if they do go wrong. You’ve got that part of a hybrid car, but you’ve also then got the engine part of a hybrid car, which we all know what happens to engines. We all know they can go wrong. We all know about timing belts, uh, you know, oil issues. There is various issues you can get with petrol engines. and you’re basically combining two lots of extra parts. Now, the whole point of going for an electric car is you’re having less moving parts, less moving parts to go wrong, less parts to go wrong. If you’re buying a hybrid, you’re still you’re going to have all the things that go wrong on a petrol car, your exhaust, stuff that wears out, plus the electric part of the car, which can also go wrong. You’re doubling up on parts, doubling up on issues, doubling up on stuff that can go wrong, and doubling up on costs, not just for purchase, but also for servicing and looking after that vehicle. For me, it’s a really bad false economy. You should just make to me the total plunge to full electric. Now, there’s very few people who will will struggle to find an electric car these days that doesn’t fit their needs. Electric cars have dropped significantly in price. In fact, I am currently selling a car that can do easily 250 mi range for less than 12 grand. Now, that car can charge up pretty fast. about 40 minutes and we’ll give that an 80% boost. But 250 miles is enough to drive from Manchester to Bournemouth. That’s 4 and a half hours of driving. And if you’re driving 4 and 1/2 hours of driving, most people would have stopped in that 4 and a half hours anyway, and then topped up the car. But let’s say you did the whole trip, 4 and a half hours, 250 mi all the way there without stopping. You’re going to charge when you get to Bournemouth. You know, you’re going to charge when you get to the destination. No one drives 4 and 1/2 hours to then drive 4 and 1 half hours immediately back. If you’re driving 4 and a half hours to somewhere, you are stopping in that location for at least double the time it took you to drive to that location. Finally, as we move towards 2030, which is the proposed ban on petrol and diesel cars, obviously hybrids are still allowed to be sold under that ban. But as we move toward 2030, we’re seeing the adoption of electric cars increase. That means demand’s increase. Now used for me, I’ve never been so busy on EVs. In fact, 95% of my stock now is EVs. Four years ago, that was not the case. We used to sell a few EVs, quite a few to order, but we didn’t really have many in stock. Now, I’m pretty much buying predominantly only electric cars because they are selling as fast as I can get them in the door. they are already sold. I can’t say the same for petrol and diesel cars. Diesel cars are really really hard to sell at the moment. Petrol cars are also difficult and hybrids are somewhere in between sort of the the two. They’re not difficult to sell. But I do think as we move to 2030, more people are going to want full electric cars, especially as we’re seeing the properity of them grow and the range and the charging and the amount of chargers grow. then people are just going to want that which means the depreciation on stuff like hybrids, diesels and petrols is going to increase and people who are going to want petrol uh who want full electric cars are going to see not the price isn’t going to go up. Okay, but it will be a bit of a more of a steady fall rather than a sharp fall we’re going to see on probably hybrids and pure petrol cars. Now, if you are thinking of getting an electric car and you’re worried about charging at home, charging costs, then I’ve done a series of videos here or I’ve done a video here where you can get as much as you want in charging for £30 a month.
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00:00 What A used car dealer says you should buy 2025
00:56 Should you buy a hybrid over an electric car?
03:40 In 10 years, the electric car market is HUGE
05:59 Should I buy a used Plug In Hybrid?
07:46 Double the issues to go wrong
09:56 2030 Ban on non-electric cars
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