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More than a third of recent UK car buyers pulled the plug on buying an electric vehicle (EV) because of cost of living concerns. That’s the key finding of a survey of 2,525 drivers carried out by What Car?. Of those who had already made their purchase, 36% admitted they ditched plans to buy an EV in favour of a ...

Nearly half of dealers (46%) think the values and prices of electric vehicles (EVs) will fall following the government’s move to push back the electrification deadline to 2035. November’s new Startline Used Car Tracker also showed that 44% believe a corresponding rise in petrol and diesel prices and values will occur as customers stick with petrol and diesel power for ...

SMMT new car registration figures for September show a fourteenth month of consecutive overall growth, with battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales up 18.9%. That paints a positive picture for electrification, but deeper scrutiny shows that growth in the BEV market is largely being driven by fleet demand. Just as consumer consideration for EVs appeared to be rising in 2023, the ...

Vauxhall has partnered with online car marketplace, Carwow, as it continues to accelerate the Electric Streets of Britain programme launched in summer 2023. Through access to carwow’s extensive database, Vauxhall can work with councils to pinpoint where interest in electric vehicles (EVs) is strongest across the country and where requirement lies for on-street charge point installation to be accelerated. Figures ...

With the wholesale price of electricity falling in the UK, alongside the rising cost of petrol at the pumps, EV drivers could be saving hundreds of pounds per year compared to drivers of conventional vehicles. In a recent nationwide survey of drivers by Tusker, 79% of EV drivers stated that they chose an electric car in order to save money. ...

Dealers have raised major concerns over the amount of investment they are having to make in on site EV charging infrastructure. The latest Dealer Attitude Survey from the National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) found that this was the most negative theme in the overall survey, with the lowest score by some margin. “The survey revealed that franchised dealer sentiment around ...

There’s a lot of chatter about the pros and cons of electric vehicles (EVs) at the moment, but there’s still an elephant in the room with EV ownership: We don’t have enough technicians to fix them when they go wrong, or to maintain them for the future. The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) issued a report in June which ...

Although my blog relates to one of the main headlines to hit the UK news last week, my point is relevant to readers of this blog everywhere – so read on, I’ve not turned UK-centric! The big news story was that the UK Government confirmed rumours that have been building for a while that the ban on the sale of ...

Demand for EVs soared in August accounting for 22% of all cars sold in Europe. According to JATO Dynamics data for 28 European markets, 22% of total registrations were BEVs, equating to 196,000 units out of almost 900,000 units. The overall market rose by 20% in August with the volume of electric cars increasing by 102%, and petrol by just ...

The government decision to extend the ICE sale ban deadline by five years to 2035 is likely to boost values of diesel cars. That’s the view of Indicata which said that sales of used diesel cars up to four years old accounted for just 16.1% of cars sold in August, but that may change in the future following Rishi Sunak’s ...