UK car sales 20% Electric, 28% including Plug in Hybrid, 38% including Full Hybrid, 55% including Mild Hybrid
by Lower_Chance8849
UK car sales 20% Electric, 28% including Plug in Hybrid, 38% including Full Hybrid, 55% including Mild Hybrid
by Lower_Chance8849
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It’s good to see that battery electric vehicles (i.e. 100% electric) are outselling dirty diesel vehicles by approximately 2 to 1.
The strange thing is, I’ve been assured many times in this very forum and elsewhere, that people can’t afford EVs.
Very odd.
If you include both diesel and diesel hybrid it’s still the smallest group in those figures, How long before small stations start to drop diesel as an option at their pumps I wonder?
The important figure is the full EV at 1 in 5 – the majority of hybrid owners never plug them in and run on petrol most of the time. It was 1 in 6 last month so we’re well on track to reach 100% EV in 2035.
(second-hand EV prices have dropped as well – you can get an still-in-warrenty Kia for under 9k these days)
BEV prices have collapsed in the last few years. You can now get a Tesla S for between 20-30k, and Threes are also in that price range.
You might think that’s expensive, but when you consider that running it costs a fraction of what a diesel/petrol does, it’s a no-brainer.
The moment my car dies (it’s nearly 20 years old now), I’m going electric. And no, I don’t need to charge it outside my house, because I’ll just drive it to one of the nearby charging facilities to charge it there. Just as I do when I fill my current car with petrol.
The prices for EV cars are still absurd though, especially when repairs are needed. I have no idea how most people are affording them.
If I were to buy a brand new car today it would be hybrid, but thats only because the model I want with the fastest 0 to 60 is the 1.6 Petrol Hybrid.