A Favourable UK Review

[wivenhoe]

As the car is now more than a year old things have settled ok. The 12v Battery issue is common in most hybrids and I think a lot of EV’s. The manufacturers have reduced the size of the Battery as hybrids and obviously EV’s have 2 batteries and so the 12v one really only starts the car. I’ve had a flat Battery once in a year and that was more than 9 months ago. 
The real issue is if you need to leave the car for say 2 weeks. I think I’m the only one on here to have had an issue. 
You don’t need to take the car to a dealers, IF you have a problem Lexus will sort the AA to come and sort it. You couldn’t take the car to the garage as it won’t start !
To avoid the issue completely you just need to turn the car on for about 20 mins every 3 or 4 days if you’re not using it at all. I know this as the AA guy told me and I have a tracker which monitors the 12v Battery (in case thieves disconnect it thinking it would disconnect the tracker, which it doesn’t) and after 20 mins of “on Ready” the voltage is back up to 12.2v. 
If you decide to go with a different EV make sure it doesn’t have a similar issue. e.g. I have read about problems in an EQE, Toyota bz, Kia’s, Hyundai - some have sorted, some have not.
For reassurance you could buy a £ 50 jump starter pack and keep it out of sight in the under floor storage. A bit of a faff but guaranteed to sort it in a few minutes - the issue with EQE had to be sorted by a dealer as the ‘bonnets’ appear to be sealed !