At least Musk has admitted that Tesla were overcharging customers.

The bottom is already falling out of the BEV market. High electricity prices and lack of chargers will kill EV’s. Plus of course the U.K. has a grossly inadequate generating capacity, and can barely keep the lights on at the moment.

Next winter may be even more tricky.

Without EVs there's no future for passenger cars. As oil reserves are used up, petrol and diesel will get more and more expensive and that's before you even factor in CO2 emissions.

If all vehicles were electric, then the extra demand for electricity would be (roughly) cancelled out by not having to expend vast amounts of energy refining oil.

The difference is that refining oil is a 24/7 process not affected by the wind or sun. Generating power at the time of day when its needed for charging EVs (mostly at lunchtime and especially between 6pm and midnight) is exactly at the same time when 'green' generating capacity is at its lowest, especially in winter when more of us are indoors using electrical devices.

Even worse if the daft change to ban new gas boilers comes in, given that will create even more demand at the same times.

Unless and until viable large scale energy storage solutions are found (Hyrdogen isn't), especially as batteries utilise rare Earth materials, often are mined using child and/or near slave labour, and the materials are very hard (energy and person intensive) to recycle, all this will NOT be viable.

People just saying it will and we'll (not them, just the Plebs) have to 'put up with some short term difficulties' are just (IMHO) lying in order to protect their own untenable positions.

As someone said, Teslas often go up and down in the RRP due to market factors (including the price and availability of components as well as competition), and apart from the Chinese market, where it has been more marked, nothing out of the ordinary.

I would hope that other car manufacturers would reduce the price of all their cars - ICE included, given that the inflationary effects of high gas and petrol/diesel prices should now (at least for the moment) be waning - prices of them are vastly lower, and hopefully should be passed on at some point soon once it feeds through in the cost of transportation, electricity generation and heating costs.

It could, of course, go back up again.