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    Drivers offered up to £3,750 discount to buy electric cars
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    Drivers offered up to £3,750 discount to buy electric cars

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    1. Intrepid_Solution194 on

      So it’s ever so slightly less expensive and still very inconvenient…

    2. Pure-Kaleidoscope207 on

      I can’t wait for car manufacturers to enjoy their £3750 bonuses on every car they sell.

    3. hammer_of_grabthar on

      > “We would like to invest in an electric car, but we only have “single phase” electricity in our home,” she told the BBC. “That means there isn’t enough electricity to run the household and charge an electric car.”

      No, it does not mean that. It means that you can only use a single phase charger (up to 7.4 kWh, we’re not talking being limited to a 3 pin plug) which means a full charge takes several hours, so you’re best off charging it overnight, which almost everyone ends up doing anyway. A rapid charger at home is a luxury, not a necessity.

      Absolutely ridiculous for the BBC to quote this nonsense without correction or challenge.

    4. Misskinkykitty on

      Hardly a decent incentive to change to an expensive vehicle with incredibly inconvenient fueling. 

      Not to mention the incoming tax that’ll exceed my current tax by £175 annually. 

    5. Midghamsteve on

      They need to regulate the EV public chargers as the price is ridiculously expensive. I charge at home with Octopus Energy at 14p/Kwh and Instavolt, BP, Shell and others can charge up to 75p/KWh. First reduce the VAT to 5% as it is for home charging, then work out how to properly regulate.

    6. KnightJarring on

      I just don’t want one. They’re dull and boring, it’s like operating a fridge.

    7. fgalv on

      The £37,000 limit is pretty mad considering how much nearly all EVs cost.

      But this is the same government that still considers a £40,000 car to be “luxury”

    8. Brian-Kellett on

      Now offer the same money for an e-bike (and take a serious look at the legislation around them).

      (I’m looking at e-bikes at the moment, but £600+ is a bit much for me to try one out as I’m a bit of a raspberry)

    9. gwentlarry on

      To be welcomed but the government really need to do something about the outrageously high prices of public charging in the UK.

      Which? calculate the point at which petrol vehicles become cheaper to drive is around 47 p/kWh.

      In the UK rapid chargers (>50 kW) typically cost 60 p/kWh. Cheaper ones are around but along main dual carriageways and motorways, you can easily end up paying 80 p/kWh, perhaps more.

      Recently in France, I was paying 19 p/kWh on an ultrarapid charger (350 kW) close to where I was staying. At autoroute service areas, 350 kW Ionity chargers were 45 p/kWh. The same Ionity chargers in the UK cost 79 p/kWh.

      For high mileage drivers, the very drivers the government should be persuadng to switch to EVs, petrol and diesel cars are cheaper to run.