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Don’t forget the company car incentive with current 1% BIK rate on full EVs. I can get a middle of the road diesel and pay hundreds a month in BIK or get a much higher spec EV and pay (checks payslip…) £19 a month. I appreciate this does little to push mass market adoption but it’s a pretty big motivator for those who can get one on the company.
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Ugh, for hot takes that's a pretty weak one.
A better one would be to say that purchasing any new vehicle is more damaging to the environment than maintaining any older vehicle.
Vehicle production is not carbon (and other key pollutants) zero... very few manufacturers have even achieved carbon neutral (not always by reducing any carbon themselves, but by paying someone else to plant trees, etc).
This at least is a legitimate hot take, but people don't play that card as they're still buying new fossil fuel cars and would rightly be called out as being hypocritical.
If the ecology were truly the exclusive concern of people who purchased EVs, then those people would in fact be purchasing Citroen 2CVs and maintaining them. But it isn't, every person here has their own reasons for being spendy on an EV, PHEV, etc... from environment, performance (speed), discounts on parking, lower running costs, status, luxury, tech, all kinds of reasons yet we're all still invested in private vehicle ownership and have all purchased vehicles that are currently more polluting to produce than they are likely to save over the period of their running life. It is what it is. I'll console my guilt whilst relaxing in the super plush seats and gliding silently down the road.
I do love Volvo's Carbon Zero goal. I wonder how the hell they'll achieve that with shipping involved and even things like tyre compounds. Probably through qualifying the goal down to something more achievable.