You WILL buy an electric car!

[Dextrous63]

I don't doubt how useless ev's would be in many settings.  However, for townies such as myself they would make sense were it not for the prohibitive cost of them coupled with the terrible second hand trade in values.  If some bright spark could square that little peg in terms of renewal and running costs, then by all means I'd give it a go.

As an example, we currently pay a grand total of (purchase/loan, insurance, petrol) pcm circa £450 for our Aygo X, which we upgrade every 3ish years with little inflationary increase.   We rarely do long haul trips.  If getting an ev, coupled with the occasional hiring of an ICE vehicle came into this order of financial magnitude, then we'd happily consider the change z

To date, nobody has come close to achieving this, and I'll be damned if I'm expected to leap on an e-bike @ £ absurd per hour without better lighting, increase of police presence, subsidised clothing  given the wayward extremes of uk weather etc..

[klondike]

My son had daily long trips to work in a gas guzzler. It made sense to him too when he got it because he was able to charge at home.

That car was no good for holidays and the like, had annoying things go wrong with it that took months to fix and every so often failed to charge overnight which it was supposed to do automatically. He alsp ran a diesel car.

He swapped to the plug in hybrid which failed from day one and now has a hybrid. He still runs two cars. Three actually as he has built a camper from a secondhand diesel transit.

Electric cars are fine if you run a diesel too and don't mind the staggering depreciation which will soon be appearing in the lease prices now the lease companies have been so badly stung.

There is no way at all that diesel vans van be replaced by electric by businesses other that as a BS green marketing expense for part of their fleet. I find it highly amusing to see diesel RAC and AA vans boasting that they can charge electrics. That's something else about them - they mostly can't be fixed at the roadside and can't just be towed.