OmegaMale;335863 wrote:
From that article:
"For electric vehicles, the market is already pretty much at parity with internal combustion engine vehicles, so we think just naturally that will start to be a choice people make," Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of the CCC, told the BBC's Today programme.
What utter tosh (and that's being polite).
They are significantly more expensive to buy and depreciate like a stone.
If you can't charge at home, the fuel costs are significantly higher (I saw somewhere where someone had worked out that running a car using public chargers equated to around 22mpg.
Indeed. And it seems one of the few things keeping EV sales going is tax incentives on comapny cars.
Loss of subsidies and incoming road tax may tip the whole thing over the edge...
There is a place for EV's, as second cars for school runs and commutes where you can charge at home. But trying to force everyone down that route is ludicrous.
If only there were a party that would scrap such nonesense.... ;-)