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Certainly true that leasing will reduce the risk - or rather, it will pass the risk onto the lease company. Which leads to wondering what this new generation of electric vehicles, if it appears to be coming to pass, will do to the lease costs. On the face of it, if the second hand electric...

That's not going to encourage people to spend £30k on one of the "soon-to-be-obselete" electric cars. :eek:

Or you could put it another way and say that, for all the goods and services that have any input from the oil companies, every man, woman and child in the world has contributed £4 each to the oil companies' profits.

If you don't want a culture war, perhaps a scheme designed to help those people who can afford more expensive cars at the expense of those who have older, cheaper cars, isn't the way forward.

It's not capitalism per se, it's wealth that is the threat. Which is why some of the wackiest eco-warriors genuinely do want to go to village communities with no real transport and no real trade, living off the land and burning nothing but trees. Poorer people generate less CO2. Obviously...

I reckon it will be the other way. Ranges will stay about the same or even less but recharging will get quicker. What they need is some form of battery than can be easily and quickly recharged but isn't made of rare earth materials, because obviously there is no point attempting to replace all...

The average electric car battery weighs half a ton, so there's a lot more to it than standard fittings.