You WILL buy an electric car!

[muddy]

The acceleration on electric cars is amazing though they just zoom away .

[JBR]

The acceleration on electric cars is amazing though they just zoom away .

At one time, I should have thought them very attractive for that reason.
Fortunately, I have grown older and wiser, and stick religiously (as an atheist) to the speed limits.

[muddy]

Good for you .
Just as well Mr M doesn't like them he has an itchy enough foot on the gaz pedal as it is .

[Mups]

Our council has replaced lamp posts that were quite new, to replace them with posts with car chargers built in. There is no money for potholes and the road surface generally but they can find it for this, and blocking roads, and one way systems, and councillors' emoluments.

Hear hear, Ashy.  

[GrannyMac]

Sometimes the charging doesn't happen. Not good if you have a long trip the next day. Most are company cars because of the tax breaks.

That was his reason as a business owner.  

[Michael Rolls]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5kpkypxp6o

Now people are being bribed with government money (i.e. OUR MONEY) to buy the bloody things

[klondike]

The only discount that would make them financially viable would be closer to 100%. After the initial 3 or 4 year lease runs out nobody wants them. Buying one new means looking at a huge depreciation rate. Buying one secondhand means getting old technology that depreciates even faster because of the fear of battery failure which costs a sizeable portion of the price of an entire new car. Any accident even minor can write one off as repair costs are high. That means expensive insurance too.

If the aim is to stop most of the population being car owners then they are going the right way about it.

[Michael Rolls]

well, they do seem to have that on the agenda

[klondike]

The 15 minute city thing is what I think we may be pondering. Wonder how well that will play out in your neck of the woods. It wouldn't even work where I am in a small county town.

[Mups]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5kpkypxp6o

Now people are being bribed with government money (i.e. OUR MONEY) to buy the bloody things

Sounds like desperation to me.  The whole idea has been  a flop, and have cost them dearly.

But like I said in the beginning -  you WILL buy one. 

[Raven]

I Won't, I Won't, I Won't. Stamps foot and leaves.
When we drove over to Durness the other W/E along the top coast I kept a look out  places, just out of interest. I never saw one. There and back home is just over 200 miles.
They are useless up here in the wilds.