To ask if you'd buy an electric or petrol car in these circumstances?

Agree with this. The Ukraine war is about these minerals

Electric.

Seeing as you can charge your car at home and are doing mostly small local journeys, definitely electric.

We hired an electric car 6 years ago and decided the infrastructure wasn't quite there. We own one now because we feel the infrastructure has massively improved. We have had no issues charging it. It was definitely anticipation anxiety. Once you've done it you'll never go back.

We survived, watched Netflix

My next door neighbour has an electric mini and loves it
Her H also has an electric car
In fact in our cul de sac of 5 houses 2 are fully electric carwise and 1 has 1 electric car and one ICE. I think of of the others has a Hybrid.

I live in Scotland. I've been driving an electric for 8 years. No issues. The only time I found it a bit harder to get to a charging point was when holidaying in the lake district (and even then it was a matter of a few miles).

My friend had driven to Switzerland in his Zoë. It’s doable with planning.

We have a self charging hybrid (Toyota) which we love. We didn’t go full electric because of the ranges - we use it for travelling in Europe so do large distances. Battery has 15 year warranty and it has a 10 year warranty provided it’s serviced at a main dealer each year. Although it’s a 2.5 engine running costs are low because the EV is used so often.

Oh the humanity 😱

My mum has an electric Mini and loves it! It’s much more speedy than her ICE mini. The range is quite short, although I presume by paying extra you would get a bigger battery.

Our EV is 9 years old.
We only ever charge at home.
Battery health is still 11/12 bars.

Until there is much better infrastructure and they can tell people who don’t have drives how they will be able to charge without waiting in a great long q as everyone in the street tries to charge I would go petrol

i would never do a long journey in an electric car

Your circumstances appear to be ideally suited to an EV.

Low mileage? ✔️
No long commute? ✔️
Mainly local journeys? ✔️
infrequent longer journeys? ✔️
Driveway to charge at home? ✔️

Why not drive a few to see how you get on? Of the ones I have driven, I liked the Polestar & Kia but wasn’t so keen on the BYD & Tesla.

We went electric about a year ago. I love it and wouldn’t ever go back now.
But being able to charge at home is important. Not just for the convenience but also the cost.

To charge my car fully at home costs about £5. To charge it publicly is about £35.

We mainly charge at home but when I’ve charged publicly I’ve never had to wait.

I agree with this. Not everyone earns the magical £100k wage that people on MN do and they’ll be forced into buying second hand and I don’t think they’ll keep going for as long as a petrol or diesel car. It’s great to go electric if you can afford it and have a drive to charge it overnight but where I live is mostly terraced houses and you are lucky if you park 5 doors away. We are a long way off them being affordable for everyone right now.

Hybrid - great for short journeys but if needed can use petrol for the odd long journey. We just have an outdoor normal socket and charges in3-4 hours overnight on cheap rate

I think a self charging hybrid would make even less sense than my PHEV.

Basically with self charging you get all the complexity of 2x different power sources and zero of the benefits of electric (cheap charging and low maintenance).

I wouldn't go for something like that over ICE unless it was a comparable cost to ICE.

Indeed.
This argument would be a bit like me warning people off buying a petrol car because the cam belt snapped with no warning on the last one I had and totally trashed the engine. My car had a full main dealer service history and the cam belt wasn't yet due for replacement. The sudden and total failure to proceed whilst I was a long way from home was highly inconvenient and the subsequent engine rebuild was very, very expensive.
But shit happens. I was extremely unlucky. Most people who own an ICE vehicle will never experience anything like that, hence it would be a ridiculous reason to tell anyone not to buy one.
I don't actually give a toss what cars other people choose to drive but I do object to largely illogical, fact free anti EV rhetoric that has the potential to put people off making an informed choice.

I’ve actually just looked and you can get a mini electric hatch for under 12k 2-3 years old so I’d consider that. I have a year before I’m looking so I have time to decide. It’s our second/run around car so main car is petrol.

I have been considering an EV for later this year. British Gas will fit a home charger with an offer of free charging for a year, so some payback of the cost. We have just started to look at the pros abd cons, but there are some new models coming out this year which look v practical.

Have just got a new EV - still getting used to it after a petrol car but so far I love it - it’s so so easy to drive. If you can charge it at home, and given as you say you only do short journeys, then I don’t see the issue. 100 miles is generally well within the range of EVs these days. I also think that the infrastructure is improving and will increase rapidly (albeit probably slightly less rapidly now that the government has delayed the ban on the sale of new hybrids). If you can also invest in solar panels on your house at some point then even more reason to. Also the more people that get EVs the faster the infrastructure will increase.

I live in rural Scotland and our village has 5 EV chargers (nearest petrol station is miles away though!).

OP is going to be charging almost exclusively at home anyway, it doesn’t sound like she’s going to spend three months in the outer Hebrides or be driving across continental Europe. It’s for short day to day use and the occasional long journey that’s still within EV range, which is the perfect case scenario for an EV. Charge at home for super cheap, tootle around locally, enjoy. Never have to fill up with petrol, worry about going to the petrol station, any of that. We are a long way from a petrol station so being able to have a car always charged up at home is great.

I just plug my car in when I get home every night, it automatically charges at cheap rate overnight and it’s fully charged and ready to go in the morning.

We have friends,he's an electrical engineer on the railway,he bought an EV Citroen, the battery became us. He said he'd never get another EV,he got a nissan leaf, no long journeys.. he suffered from charging anxiety, got a home charger
After 5 years,it broke down several times, again he swore he wouldn't get another one. Both vehicles it was the batteries.He's got a Tesla, then discovered it wouldn't work on his home charger
.we have recently got rid of a 17 year old astra diesel estate 260k on the clock.. friend has solar panels
DH was in the motor trade 40 years, vehicle technician, retired 2 years ago
Plenty of horror stories,you only hear the positive on here,he said he would have a self charging hybrid,if we could afford it ....
We can't not on a pension