Will the 3p a mile on electric cars make you ditch electric?

600,000 per year as said is doubling the current rate. This year to day is somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 only, and as you said is already record high. Norway is very different to the UK. Norway has a sovereign wealth fund of more than £1.3 Trillion, yes, Trillion, not million, not billion. Their government has consistently invested in EV cars (huge incentives, tax exemptions and so on and so forth) and chargers infrastructure and so on, for decades, yes, not years, decades. The UK government, well, as the autumn budget this post initially talked about, has been struggling with public finance for years. In a simple word, this country’s government is poor. Just to put it into context the financial power of the two countries governments as comparison: Norway has government debt about 55% of their GDP, the UK is about 100%. The UK does not have the money which Norway have had to popularise EVs. Nowhere near. Norway’s energy almost 90% comes from hydroelectricity. That is the second most electrified energy system in the world. So it’s a lot easier for Norway to build chargers. Again, let me reiterate my point. The government isn’t as serious as it sounds, in terms of commitment to popularise EVs in this country. I don’t see the future for EVs here. It’s not because another country has done or hasn’t done something. I don’t think EV is a global shift either. The biggest pusher for EV is actually China. They have gone far ahead both in the industry and in the market. I think due to China’s economic and geopolitical influence (being a major producer for almost everything for the world, the 2nd biggest economy by country, 1.5 billion population and being one of the very few nuclear military super powers), it can easily feel like EVs are going to be the future. Western car manufacturers and governments have been rushing to try to make things happen because they fear they may lose competition to China. But in many countries in Europe, in America, in the middle east, the industry and market still look very different, although like the UK EVs are gaining some popularity in some countries within limited scope. In fact, most western car manufacturers are actually failing in the EV competition. Volkswagen, Mercedes and so on have been really struggling to maintain, let alone grow, their market share in the global EV market. It just doesn’t work.