WannabeOwner
Well-Known Member
In that case it's pointless on a £100k ca
When I bought mine the only 200 mile EV was a £100K car ...
The Grant (which was £7,500 back then I think) didn't sway my purchase, but I'm sure I had some feel-good-factor when buying something 3x what I normally pay for a car. Government gave me a bunch of other freebies too - company purchase first-year-write-off benefit, cheap BIK (gone back up again momentarily, but coming back down again soon), no congestion charge ...
If people had not bought that car, then, arguably that would have slowed adoption/progress ... but yeah I'm sure economists argue Black-is-White on all this, backwards and forwards amongst, themselves
Either way, we are now at a point where £100K 200 Mile Range car purchase is definitely a luxury item, and we are in the slight catch-22 where the entry-level 200 mile range car is also, just, in the luxury bracket.
I see no point to penalise people who must have 200 mile range car (for work) ... but Rules is like that. I have no defence driving past a school at 50 MPH in a 30 zone just because it is 3 O'Clock in the morning and no one is awake ... Battery Cars are more expensive than ICE, we want ICE gone in a couple of decades, so some continued support of EV is needed IMO.
... in Austria, I think???, EV drivers have been getting off the speeding fines when the reduced-limit was to prevent Smog/pollution