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.
Of course the ICE need electricity, but our current infrastructure could support petroleum production it wont for the increased demand of EV's'. I'm not so sure that future maintenance cost will remain low as the specialist nature of EV's . There are already requirements on the distance needed around EV's in for servicing, which reduces service area available, which will over time with less frequency of servicing force servicing costs upwards as it means less units thru a workshop, so each unit in for service will carry more of the overhead recovery on lower service hours per vehicle in other worlds labour rates will go up.
We have yet to experience an environment of greater EV density on our roads and therefore the greater incidence of EV on EV accidents, and the often catastrophic fires that ensue and how the emergency services deal with that accelerated and more intense outcome. We have all seen electric bus fires raging away, but not yet stopped to consider the potential increased fire risk to the emergency services and how they cope with it and what resultant damage and resultant cost created to the road infrastructure by intense EV fires. We may yet see a step change, once EV's become the norm.
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