And This Is Why

And as the car manufacturers like VW and Mercedes continue to wonder why their stupid customers are refusing to buy their little Duracell cars, there’s this report from the trenches:

Wheeler Dealers host Mike Brewer has claimed purchasing an electric vehicle was the “most stupid decision” ever made, revealing he has ditched his EVs and returned to petrol models.

Oh noes!  Whatever could have happened?

“The day I decided to sell my Porsche Taycan, which is a high-performance beautiful electric car, was the day that I couldn’t charge it. I went down to see my parents. On the way back there was nowhere to charge it, all the chargers were broken and nothing would work.

“When I did find a charger that was working, there were 12 people queued up waiting to charge their cars. The car went into ‘limp home’ mode, meaning I had to drive it at 40mph on the motorway, I realized I’d just paid £130,000 for something I was driving at 40mph on the motorway embarrassed. Why am I doing that? Why did I put myself through that anguish?

“Plus it was losing £5,000 per month at that time so it was the most stupid decision I’ve ever made.”

Is that all?

“I did buy one of those electric Mercedes recently, an EQC. 10 minutes and I’d done enough of that. That went back. I watched it lose £20,000 over the course of a couple of months and went ‘I don’t like that anymore’ and it went.”

And:

“I went very quickly back to an ICE and very quickly back to a flat-six.”

So, I think, will a huge number of his viewers.

When you can’t charge your car battery and the car’s value is depreciating faster than a Bentley’s… it’s time for a change.

…and not:

For my Murkin Readers who’ve never heard of Mike Brewer, here’s the background on Wheeler Dealers, which ran for over 20 years on Brit TV.