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Electric cars need to be cheaper and better supported by infrastructure.
That’s the view of the Vehicle Remarketing Association (VRA) which is holding a meeting on 23 March to highlight the problems its members are facing.
Arnold Clark is represented at the event by Audrey Little, research and development executive at Arnold Clark Innovation Centre.
The event will be held at Cox Automotive, Bruntingthorpe on Thursday 23rd March and consist of presentations followed by a panel discussion featuring subjects on which VRA members have voted online.
The top five EV topics voted upon by VRA members are: a better national charging infrastructure; an independent, industry standard method of checking battery health; reduced energy costs to make charging cheaper, further improvements in EV range; and government support to encourage adoption of used EVs.
“This polling provides an insight into the issues that VRA members believe are hampering acceptance of used EVs and which need resolving. Essentially, electric cars need to be cheaper and better supported by infrastructure. At our meeting, we will take a detailed look at how this can be achieved,” said VRA chair Philip Nothard.
“EVs are very much the hot topic of conversation within our organisation at this moment in time, especially following the quite dramatic price realignments that we have seen in recent months. Everyone knows that electrification has to happen but everyone can also foresee issues that are difficult to resolve and for which solutions need to be found.