Are UK drivers shunning electric cars?

The road to significant adoption of electric cars in the UK looks to be paved with more potholes than the average A road in the UK at the moment. 

There’s some evidence that not only do drivers not like electric cars (more on that later in this blog) but insurance companies are not exactly thrilled with them and second hand car dealers can’t figure out how to make money out of them.

Add to the mix that in various countries of the world drivers of electric cars are going to have to pay for every mile they drive. That’s about to be the case in California, although Texas has already brought in an extra registration fee. New South Wales in Australia is also planning a form of road pricing. How long will an incoming Labour government resist the temptation to tax further, in some form, electric cars just as all UK governments insist on picking the pockets of that cash cow called the UK motorist? The current Conservative government has already reneged on its promi

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