Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes

bloak

I am so confused by the categorisation of cars: BEV, HEV, PHEV and so on. I think the industry insiders who write some of these articles don't realise how hard it is for some of their readers to keep track.

wxw

> The increase reflects a rebound from an unusually weak April last year, when buyers pulled purchases forward to March to beat incoming vehicle tax increases

retrac98

Fuel (diesel, specifically) in the UK is getting towards $10/gallon, so not surprising really!

jampa

This oil crisis was a huge boon for EVs. In Brazil, despite the "hate" most people have against EVs, BYD went from breaking into the top 10 in March to taking the #1 spot in consumer sales for the first time ever.

kieranmaine

As a companion to this article these pages have good charts and data: The road to electric - in charts and data - https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/choosing/road-to-e... Electric car charging prices at public chargers - https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/charging/electric-...

Oras

Doesn’t increasing fuel price affect the electricity prices, which increases the charging cost?

arjie

A fifth of these last year were paid for by the government scheme that buys people cars - Motability. I wonder how many of these current ones are like that.

physicsguy

The biggest seller of EVs here is the salary sacrifice schemes that give a huge discount to high earners, especially those with kids. Imagine you're on taxable income of £120k and have two chidlren in nursery. Currently you get no help with childcare costs from the government. From my own experience it's ~£6000 subsidy per child. You can currently take out an EV salary sacrifice scheme for ~£600 per month (pre tax), and that brings your taxable income down by £7200. Put another £13k in pension. Boom, you're now getting £13k in pension p/a, and your car is effectively free, because you get £12k back in childcare subsidies.

trollbridge

158p (about $8 a gallon) might be a pretty effective motivator, although electric prices need to stay reasonable for this to work.

youngtaff

This has a breakdown of the numbers by fuel type, brand etc. https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

1970-01-01

Why is the most unsaid part out of all of this fuel nonsense is that there are less cars dumping emissions into the air. The Iran war may be the best driver we've had for air quality. Bring more EVs, they're overdue by a decade.

asdefghyk

I expect , data such as ... would be illuminating here ... Electric cars registered in countries with large land mass? "..Electric car adoption , ranked by value of government incentives.."? Eventually I just searched for "... graphs relating to EV adoption" " ..Relationship between country land mass and ev adoption rate.." ? I have not posted links, not sure if its allowed.

sensecall

I’m not surprised with fuel at like £1.80/L and electricity as low as 3.5p/kwh Makes EVs quite appealing. https://carcosttool.com/ev-vs-ice-breakeven

lenerdenator

Interesting how that doesn't seem to be a front where Europe wants to isolate itself from foreign influence; the models mentioned in the link seem to be Chinese in origin, not European.

rsync

Imagine how much faster electric car adoption would be if incumbent auto makers weren’t using them as dumping grounds for experimental, half-baked, and unsafe design experiments? We never wanted their “electric cars” … we wanted their cars, but electric .

ripvanwinkle

TSLA not in the top 10- very interesting

rconti

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