Charge ........

[watty]

With the MG5, I think it was 160k and 7 years for private motors and 100k and 3 years for taxis.  What sort of warranty would Toyota give an ICE taxi?

[mercenary for hire]

Toyota offer the same warranty but the difference is they have a history of reliability so you're not gambling so much with your living should the unthinkable happen.Even if a Prius battery failed, because it's a smaller unit the replacement cost would be a fraction of the fully leccy battery.

I kinda wanna see some leccy cars with 300k of proven reliability before I can invest my hard earned.I'd take a chance for 12/13k after grants but without government help I'd be very exposed of the worst happens.

[watty]

You can't have it both ways.  The NTA won't give you a huge grant to buy stable technology.

The car makers are pivoting from ICE cars, the EU is banning new ICE cars within the decade and the NTA is throwing EU money at us now to switch.  You have all the boffins in those institutions saying it's ok and then there's the naysayers (not you, of course) on the ranks.  Those institutions have a lot to lose (reputation-wise) if they're wrong.  It is a gamble but one worth taking in my case.  I had no choice anyways because my Octavia was effectively dead by then!

ICE cars don't look after themselves, you have to keep an eye on the oil and the coolant etc.  Same with EVs but it's the charging regime and how you maintain the battery.  Same coin, different sides IMHO...

[C5]

The thing is car manufacturers are being forced to go electric by the politicians and environmentalists and big vested interests. If the ev cars cause big problems for commercial drivers the manufacturers wont care, they build the cars and guarantee them for 100,000 to 160,000 for petrol,diesel, hybrids and electric it doesn't matter to them, they just care about profit margins, if something goes wrong after that its out of their hands and the people who made the rules will be gone from their jobs, retired or dead. So jumping into ev for commercial use is a penny wise and pound foolish move. Just stick with the reliable tools and let time and distance be the tester.

[markmiwurdz]

Toyota offer the same warranty but the difference is they have a history of reliability so you're not gambling so much with your living should the unthinkable happen.Even if a Prius battery failed, because it's a smaller unit the replacement cost would be a fraction of the fully leccy battery.

I kinda wanna see some leccy cars with 300k of proven reliability before I can invest my hard earned.I'd take a chance for 12/13k after grants but without government help I'd be very exposed of the worst happens.

I saw a 17D Leaf today on the Mespil rank that should be about 150-200K kms providing he's not sitting at home throwing sugar lumps at it.

[mercenary for hire]

MMW it's possible he's a part-timer/low earner or he may only have plated it up recently.

There was a chap in a leaf that was on the news a few years ago and he lives around Waterloo lane and runs a Bed and breakfast (someone said on here) but the last time I saw him he was driving an Avensis.

You might get lucky and get 300k but it's gonna be longshot IMO not to have any issues or serious degradation.Hope I'm wrong.