Buying my Mum an Electric Car

My mum needed a new car. He current one is a Daihatsu Cuore from about 1998, it’s a sweet little japanese car that looks bizarrely small and simple on UK roads. It served her well but it’s really starting to show its age. That coupled with increasingly large vehicles on the road and the arrival of her grandson she doesn’t feel safe enough in it anymore. Her one looks like this. So the plan was to get something slightly more modern, cheap and hopefully electric. Which car to get? Scrolling on Autotrader for a couple weeks we quickly realised that there are really only two models of second hand electric car that were going to make sense: either a Nissan Leaf or a Renault Zoe. The Nissan Leaf was the first commercially produced electric car, the early ones don’t use the standard CCS connector and we were seeing comments online about them having issues with battery thermal management of the battery that lead to faster than expected degradation. On the other hand, we were seeing a lot of…