The 'whataboutery'' questions raised about electric vehicles have all been covered in many many other threads.

This must be EV propaganda. How on earth did they arrive at a figure of £837pcm (£10044 per annum) for an EV and £969 (£11628) for a petrol car?

A year ago we bought a brand new Peugeot 2008 1.2 EAT6 Allure Premium for £17000 - 'on the road inc. a year's tax'. I have no idea what an equivalent EV would have cost but I would lay odds that it would have been at least £5000 more expensive. We have done about 5000 miles at a petrol cost of 13p per mile. From what I have read, an EV would have cost around 4p per mile. So it has cost me an additional 9p per mile, £450, leading me to think I would need to run it for around ten years before it would 'cost' more than an EV. EVs might well make sense for a high miler with cheap or free (old Teslas) charging, but not for the mass of low mileage retirees.

Why do you think that the government are pushing smart meters. It will realise when you are charging your car and most probably put you on a dearer tariff. Only too familiar, remember buy a diesel and save the planet. As soon as they are losing money they will remember that 40% of our electricity is produced by Power stations fueled by gas or wood chippings.

The reason they didn’t mention the cost of replacing battery packs is that they don’t need replacing. Much like most internal combustion engines, they’ll outlive the rest of the car, then go off to be recycled or repurposed.

Agreed

PS Avant, should this thread be moved to 'Discussion'?

Why? It's a technical topic to do with cars!

Electric cars are ideal as a second vehicle or if you don't do many miles, battery life is very good now and even Tesla reckon that they will last the life of the car. If you charge on off peak from a 13a plug - no installation needed you will get about 3kw per hour, that's 21 kw for the off peak period that should give you around 50-60 miles at around 3p per mile plenty enough for many people.

If you do a lot of long journeys electric vehicles are not ideal although in the course of time battery capacity will become greater and cheaper. Fast chargers are OK for cars that already do a good mileage, you can charge them while you have a coffee or your lunch but charging is likely to be much more expensive than charging at home.

How is paying £40k+ great for people who do low annual mileages? Far better to buy a 2-3yo petrol-only car which will be FAR cheaper over its lifespan. And you don't need to carefully plan your journeys for that occasional longer one in order to ensure you don't run out of juice or pay to install a home charger

To justify the much higher purchase price of an EV over a petrol car, you have to do a decent mileage. If money is no object, that's a different story.