Golf GTE driven

[Mark V GTD]

ha ha yes I wondered if it was to do with that.... not that there is anything wrong in using the keyfob....

[fredgroves]

The BIK is calculated on the manufacturer list price, so you can't take the 5k discount into a BIK calculation.

I did a quick HMRC BIK calculation on the base GTE (33k RRP) and a GT with 1.4TSI (24k RRP)

GTE

Company Car Tax (2015/2016)    £330.20 (20%)    £660.40 (40%)

GT 1.4 TSI
 
Company Car Tax (2015/2016)    £840.40 (20%)    £1,680.80 (40%)

Next you'd need to look at the lease price per month for each of those for a certain mileage, then chuck in some real world fuel use figures for that annual mileage.

I wouldn't mind betting that the actually annual cost doesn't actually come out radically different... unless you add into it charging the thing up from your electricity point, which of course adds an install cost (albeit one off) and the cost for charging it (which will only go up probably faster than derv/petrol).

Anyone fancy supplying the rest of the data?

[fredgroves]

Ok, so if we take the 1.4 GT, by using 70% of the combined MPG figure (which is based on my real world experience of my GTD vs the figures!) we would see 41mpg from that engine (manual gearbox)

Now the GTE has the same petrol engine, but also weighs more (batteries!), so I'd expect pure petrol power to have a lower real world MPG.

If you plug it in, you have an extra cost, as i said above.

If you charge it from the engine, your MPG will suffer, you will gain no overall economy (law of conservation of energy and all that) and indeed will actually loose some - unless its just charging from regenerative braking (which I think the car might use?)

So its really just down to lease payments (based on good old residuals apart from anything else), whether you drive in a congestion charging zone or if you can blag some free juice from your company...