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    • UKTJ
      I don't doubt the demand side would exist, especially with the pricing Helen achieved.  It's the supply side that I was less sure about.  My understanding was that a much higher proportion of new EVs are "sold' on a lease contract basis, with an extremely high proportion of those being 'bought' by companies in recent years due to the very attractive BIK applied to electric vehicles.  Those market conditions resulted in very few nearly new electric vehicles being available second hand.  Think I'll take a look again, maybe things have moved on.  If it is possible to get an electric vehicle where somebody else has taken the year 1 depreciation and it can be bought on a lease contract, meaning we are not committed to being left holding it at the end of the period it may be a good option for my wife's next car.
    • Surfer
      Makes you wonder why someone sold it as soon if EV are supposed to so great? However total myth that they are environmentally friendly!
    • Fireman Iain
      Yes, the monthly contract cost was slightly lower. The cash purchase price was more or less the same as for a petrol.   She bought from a multi brand EV specialist. There's definitely a market for lightly used EV's just as there is and always has been for ICE vehicles.
    • UKTJ
      Interesting to hear of somebody buying a year old EV, I've not heard of somebody being able to do that before.  Was it through a main dealer?  When you say it costs less than the petrol version a month is that some form of contract purchase price or just the running costs?  I've never been a buyer of new cars since I stopped working for a car maker and got a crazy discount on them, but I have not seen much of a nearly new market in EVs (I just can't accept the depreciation in year 1 on most vehicles).  Interesting if one is starting to develop.
    • Lg5489
      I haven't really documented it on here, only what's in this post 😀 but she has been a labour of love ha. I did the V8 conversion in around 2019 then have been constantly upgrading ever since. Its running a Holley Sniper EFI which is alot better than the carb I originally had.    This is how she stands today 😀 
    • Fireman Iain
      I'm seeing a lot of EV negativity on this thread. As 4x4 enthusiasts, we're a pretty niche section of the population. And from the posts I read on here, lots of folk run their Jeeps as hobby vehicles and have something more efficient as their daily drivers. What do most drivers want? I'd hazard a guess at not wanting projects, not wanting to tinker and modify, and not wanting fuel guzzling vehicles. An educated guess says a lot of the population aspire to modern, high tech cars, with every gadget going. If they have a few spare quid they probably finance their cars on lease or PCP.  Reliability, warranty and the lowest possible running costs probably feature highly on the wish lists. Helen, my girlfriend has recently switched from a petrol Citroen C4 that let her down badly to a Vauxhall Mokka e. An EV. It's less than a year old, less than 5000 miles and costs her less per month than a petrol version. All the gadgets, a really nice interior for the money, and refined enough to be able to whisper to each other at motorway speeds. It's ace. She can put 200 miles of range on it for less than 3 quid on her home charger. My WK2 is my daily and costs me about £45 to drive that far. Who's smarter? I'm a big lump and like a big vehicle to be comfortable. If I could swap to an EV that had the same comfort and size as my WK2, I'd give up its offroad ability and change to an EV in a heartbeat. Helen's Mokka is too small for me, and bigger EV's are out of my budget. 
    • Overlander21
      I was just looking at that picture, thinking that's an impressive bumper kit 👍   Then I looked at the topic title and saw the words, "Chevy small block V8" 😳 🤣   What a conversion!   But how do you go from this:     To this?!     Have you got a build thread on here somewhere?    
    • JimC
      Could we please keep JOC politics free. Life is too short to and this is a Jeep website which has nowt to do with politics.    
    • UKTJ
      Very tidy, I like it!
    • Lg5489
      New front bumper and winch fitted today 😀 looking forward to trying it out.... 
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