My £70k electric Mercedes left me stranded – normal cars don’t have this flaw

A MAN has revealed how he bought a £70,000 electric Mercedes but a shocking flaw left him stranded.

Eddy May found himself left stuck on the side of the road after facing a little-known problem with his flashy car.

Eddy May was left stranded on the side of the road with a flat tyre

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Eddy May was left stranded on the side of the road with a flat tyreCredit: tiktok
He took to TikTok to raise the question of why there are no spare tyres in electric vehicles

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He took to TikTok to raise the question of why there are no spare tyres in electric vehiclesCredit: tiktok

The Australian driver took to TikTok (@eddymay68) to reveal that a spare tyre was surprisingly not included with the electric car, after his tyre went flat while travelling with his wife.

He explained that after his real wheel deflated, Eddy used the fancy in-car customer service that his Mercedes-Benz EQC-400 provided and spent five minutes on a call to an employee.

“I’ve spoken to them, they’re sending a tow truck,” Eddy told his followers.

“Quick five minutes on the phone, a £100 ($200) cab charge voucher to get home, and the car’s going to get towed to Mercedes and the car’s going to be fixed tomorrow apparently,” he added.

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The diver praised Mercedes for their quick and helpful customer service but was left wondering why there was no spare tyre provided, as there would be for a petrol vehicle.

“There’s no spare in this f**king car because all the room is taken up with batteries and so forth,” Eddy said.

The TikTok quickly racked up over 85.6k views, with 560 likes and over 400 comments.

His followers were quick to leave their thoughts on the shocking experience.

One wrote: “I would be severely unimpressed with needing a tow truck, taxi ride, loan car and what 1-2 days with out my car over a flat tyre”.

Another said: “It would have been cheaper just to send someone to fix the tire”.

A third wrote: “Pretty bad, no spare tyre”.

One more commented: “Most of the new cars now do not have spare tyre and has to be ordered as optional extra”.

But regardless of the hassle that Eddy went through to get back home after his tyre nightmare, he argued that electric model itself was still friendlier on the environment than a petrol car.

“24,000 kms with no petrol or oil and 38 kms on a diesel truck. I still think it’s doing okay,” he said in his video.

This comes after drivers were warned about further problems with electric cars as serious problems with EVs were revealed.

Experts recently highlighted an issue concerning older multi-storey car parks and their inability to cope with the increased weight of electric cars – with the ageing structures possibly at risk of collapse.

And drivers have also been issued an urgent warning regarding serious problems with electric cars despite their soaring popularity.

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A motor expert said that their size and weight can reduce efficiency.

And their larger batteries also require more raw minerals, like cobalt and lithium, putting extra pressure on already stretched global supplies.

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