Can someone explain electric cars, hybrid and any other options

[m00rfarm]

I am honestly not a stupid person, but I really cannot get my head around what I should be looking at purchasing. I find something that looks interesting, then find there is a hidden battery cost per month for example.

I really want an SUV type electric vehicle (well, I think I do). But would a hybrid be better?

Any simple explanations would be greatly appreciated.

@m00rfarm - I don’t know why you’re having this issue. But I drove 180km to Salzburg, around there, then 180km back just last week. It’s was freezing cold, heating on full wack and traffic for about 45mins extra . Motorway 98% of the journey. I didn’t charge at all until I got home.
I charge to 80% day to day, but to 100% on long motorway drives so no range issues

Traffic for 45 minutes will charge the car beautifully. But in Portugal, apart from Lisbon and POrto, we get no traffic. No braking to regenerate electricity. As I said, I have researched and spoken with VW and have been assured that my car was delivering exactly what it was meant to deliver when regenerative braking was not in play. If I went 130km on motorways, and then 30km in traffic, I could easily do there and back on one charge. But my driving patterns NEVER have traffic. It is the worst possible place for an EV! And I only charged to 100% on special occasions - that is meant to be very bad for the batteries.

It’s rare to do 130km constantly here. There’s lots of tunnels and road works right now so it’s 80-130 up and down the whole way.

Even if we don’t do motorways we often drive up 1000m up the windy mountain roads, ski, and back and barely 20% gone

At no point have I said that I got 100km on a full battery. I said that when I had 300km remaining I would get only 100km if I was motorway driving. Driving at 120km per hour at the legal speed limit. I am not sure why you are continuing to tell me I am wrong - lucky you if you are getting better than VW state is the normal (and what I have experienced). You clearly have a super ID4 and are a super driver to get anything better than that. If I reduced my speed to 100km per hour I would get more. But I want to drive at 120km per hour and therefore I get less.

I didn't say you were wrong - I said it was odd. And it is. If the car tells you it has 300km and you only get 100km, that is odd. Clearly the type of journey will affect that, but motorway driving should be pretty efficient.

It's all irrelevant now anyway as you've got rid of it, but your experience of range/battery is very different from many other EV owners on this thread. At the end of the day, if it wasn't for you, then that's all there is to it.