The huge increase in the price of public charging, has certainly scared people away from the switch over to EV driving.
Unless you can charge from home or at work for a cut price or even better for free, then covering a lot of miles in an EV is just not cost effective at the moment TBH.
It kind of reminds me of the time, when the government was encouraging people to buy the new leaner / greener oil burners.
Manufactures jumping on the back of this by increase the price over a petrol car by around £1,500 on the list price.
As soon enough people bought them, they increase the price of the derv until it became more expensive that petrol
️ itself !.
The refining cost of derv is a lot less expensive than petrol and yet look at the prices they are charging for it.
No wonder their profits are SO high.
I think it’s safe to say, we have been down this road before then.
Therefore it could be said that EV’s are the new oil burners in an unfunny type of fashion maybe ??.
Hook in the EV buyers and then increase the price of the juice required to run them substantially.
It’s only natural that people are still smarting a little bit.
Now, throw in a good dollop of discounts on some Tesla models straight after Xmas 22 which really had a knock on effect on the residual values on the EV markets.
Add in the introduction of the VED coming shortly and the corner for EV adoption becomes harder sell now alright.
Tesla was definitely responsible for forcing the hand of legacy manufactures, to start producing EV’s that they never really wanted to produce, had they had their own way.
Now almost every manufacturer is producing EV’s to give Tesla some competition, so how does Tesla respond to that competition, by suddenly dropping the price of some of their models.
There does not appear to be any shortage of the popular model 3 cars either.
None of this 12 - 18 month wait list malarkey.
We paid a visit to the Trafford Centre ( Manchester ) shopping centre last week.
Tesla for a while now, using one of the massive car parks there, as a drop of and pick up point for mainly model 3’s.
It is wall to wall brand new cars, in row after row, after row.
Large car transporters arriving and leaving day after day apparently.
There was three transports unloading in the morning and another two in the afternoon when we left !.
Many of these cars must have homes to go too I guess !.
If you turn up late for EV party ( legacy manufactures ) then don’t expect to be in control of that market place sorry.
Any happy EV owner ( what ever to drive ) has thank Tesla for what they have done for EV motoring.
Without their focus and drive towards EV motoring, we would all be driving fossil burning cars for sure.
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