Before I bought my Crosstar on June 2021, I tried a Corsa electric and a BMW i3. Both cars super impressed with the responsiveness of the drive, the quietness and the general ambience. However, the BMW i3 for it's price when new is a non starter, nowhere near worth the £40000 odd.
What did sway me to get a petrol over electric is the fact that I do not have the capabilities of home charging as I live in a flat and discovered a few points that are never mentioned, otherwise I would have gone electric as the only long journey I do nowadays is around an 80 round trip now and again.
The problems that I have come to see are as follows.
1) I will always be starting from cold. (No prewarming on mains therefore less mileage)
2) I can only charge to 80% as I do not stay anywhere long enough for the batteries to charge for longer. (Take 20% off the range)
3) Continual rapid charging will shorten the battery life prematurely. (Lithium dendrites will form quickly)
So as I see it, Vauxhall says 209 mile range. Cold starting? Take 10 miles off. Real world range 150 in warm weather, in Britain??? Probably around 130 in winter if everything is hunky dory. Take 20% off and being generous leaves me with 100 miles.
Even now, I had convinced myself to get it, but, the final nail in the coffin was that after looking at an estimated range of 141 miles at the start and then spending around 20 miles on an enjoyable test drive, when I handed the car back, the car showed a range of 41 miles left. That is the reason I chose the Crosstar.
Electric are for the towns, cities, local journeys and home charging and will come as will hydrogen, but I'm sad to say, not in my driving lifetime I think.