That is the question, if anyone actually cares.
There must be a scratching of collective heads across Whitehall as to why an ignorant UK public still refuses to buy EVs. Most current sales are for company car fleets rather than Joe Public.
My experience might be rather typical. I have given up the idea of getting an EV any time soon to replace our 2014 diesel. My reasons are: shocking expense, reported inconvenience, and not wishing to support the Chinese takeover of the world economy (any more than I already have). And also because there's nothing wrong with the diesel – apart from the emissions, of course. Bu then EVs have emissions embodied in their build – not to mention all that cobalt ...
Out of curiosity, however, I recently looked up a secondhand Tesla Model 3 car that was local to me. It had done 47,000 miles in 3 years and the dealer still wanted a princely sum. By comparison my rather comfortable, quite efficient, ULEZ-compliant, hi-spec, low tax diesel has done 45,000 miles in 9 years. And it turned out that I'd have to cough up around £17,ooo to trade cars.
Why on Earth would I do that? A no-brainer, as our American friends are won't to say.
Of course, you might say that there's a moral duty on me to transition to EVs if I can. The government is not relying on dubious moral arguments, of course. We're going to be made to do it one day. Maybe prices will have come down by then, and there's be a few more charging stations to overcome range anxiety. Anyway, maybe by then my fine old German diesel will have gone to the great scrap yard in the sky to be re-recycled. But if it goes any time soon, I'm going to be sorely tempted to buy a "pre-loved" hybrid rather than an EV for all the reasons set out above.
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