We have just replaced our daily driver, with a petrol manual gearbox Kia Xceed our third Kia not the most exciting drive but if it's anything like the last two it will be trouble free motoring and still worth something when we come to move it on, a EV would have probably worked for us was it not for my wife who insisted on a manual gearbox. We did try a couple and I must say the acceleration is addictive but that's about it.
We buy our cars old school, with the huge depreciation that an EV carries even with the low fuel cost if charging at home the sums did not work for me and the concern about who will buy a six year old EV? What happens when they are out of warranty and they do need fixing, the garage down the road can't fix them.
An EV future? Not in my life time, the government will do what they always do with the incentive to buy them, then rack up the cost, road tax next year and pay per mile not so far away, they always want the tax revenue..
I believe the first EV was way back in 1835 and then something better came along Petrol.
