Question of the Month: Will the next car you purchase be an EV or a Hybrid Electric Vehicle?

The car I bought in June was an EV because I felt it would work well for us (BMW I4)  Currently, paying £6 to drive around 280miles and potentially up to 360miles.  However, that in itself would never pay back the extra cost for buying it but I like the way that EVs drive and I particularly like not having to go to the petrol station! It's my first EV by the way.

I think for many people an EV would work well, other's perhaps not.  I think the key is being able to install a charger at home without which I would think the ownership experience might feel like a bit of a hassle at the moment, depending where you lived.  Perhaps that's where a hybrid might work for people, particularly if the majority of journeys are less than the range that can be done on pure electric.  Really, most people do a LOT of very short journeys.

A perspective I have is that Europe is way more geared up for EV ownership than the UK (or the USA, but this would be based purely on randoms on the internet.)  UK government has decided to ban ICE vehicles from 2030, and hybrids from 2035, but left it up to private business to roll out the infrastructure how they think.  They've also avoided investing in Giga Factories, unlike Europe, which really endangers an industry that has a massive input to UK GDP.  In other words, and hardly unsurprising for this government, they've really hamstrung us in converting the country to EV by not investing in infrastructure.  That means the unit price for a vehicle is really high and many people just can't afford it.  I predict pain ahead and that the UK government will back down from its 2030 ban.  

I do think ICE vehicles day's are numbered though.  The progress towards purely EV vehicles seems to have passed the tipping point with manufacturers; but it's more than that and a real shift in industrialisation.  Industrial revolution 2.0.

The car I bought in June was an EV because I felt it would work well for us (BMW I4)  Currently, paying £6 to drive around 280miles and potentially up to 360miles.  However, that in itself would never pay back the extra cost for buying it but I like the way that EVs drive and I particularly like not having to go to the petrol station! It's my first EV by the way.

I think for many people an EV would work well, other's perhaps not.  I think the key is being able to install a charger at home without which I would think the ownership experience might feel like a bit of a hassle at the moment, depending where you lived.  Perhaps that's where a hybrid might work for people, particularly if the majority of journeys are less than the range that can be done on pure electric.  Really, most people do a LOT of very short journeys.

A perspective I have is that Europe is way more geared up for EV ownership than the UK (or the USA, but this would be based purely on randoms on the internet.)  UK government has decided to ban ICE vehicles from 2030, and hybrids from 2035, but left it up to private business to roll out the infrastructure how they think.  They've also avoided investing in Giga Factories, unlike Europe, which really endangers an industry that has a massive input to UK GDP.  In other words, and hardly unsurprising for this government, they've really hamstrung us in converting the country to EV by not investing in infrastructure.  That means the unit price for a vehicle is really high and many people just can't afford it.  I predict pain ahead and that the UK government will back down from its 2030 ban.  

I do think ICE vehicles day's are numbered though.  The progress towards purely EV vehicles seems to have passed the tipping point with manufacturers; but it's more than that and a real shift in industrialisation.  Industrial revolution 2.0.