RE: On the Pros and Cons of the UK's New Electric Vehicle Subsidy

ahhh this is an interesting one. In the Netherlands we had this for EVs over the last years and it is now gone. Better said: it was a rule for more tax benefits for leasing an EV. Now that the tax benefit is done, the end of lease cars are being dumped on the second hand market, where by now you can get a 5 year old tesla as an example for the price of 15K. Awesome indeed, the reality is that all of these are bought up by husslers from other countries to be exported because the EVs are more expensive there.

That is also not how it initially was intended, same goes for subsidising it.

Infrastructure wise here there is a rule that when you get an EV, there has to be a charging option within 200 meters from your house. That means that you file for this at your municipality and they have to take care of this, which is not a bad deal at all actually.