ICE cars need electricity too, and a lot of it. To extract and refine a gallon of petrol and then transport it to a fuelling station requires around 6kWh of electricity, which is enough to take an EV over 20 miles. Now we are past the early adopter incentives, EV owners will quite rightly have to share their burden of VED costs, that’s right and proper. But the fuel and servicing costs remain very attractive for many.
