I am confident this argument will continue for many years but sometimes I feel there is one element that is lost. I sit in the lowest 10% of U.K. wealth, don’t misunderstand I am not unhappy but contented that due to unforeseen circumstances that’s where we ended up, so the birth of the EV has actually enabled us to continue driving financially which is huge as we live in a very rural location which in itself is costly. I read all sorts of arguments for and against and after 3 years with our new ev on order not 1 neighbour or relative has followed our lead. We calculate a mileage saving of around £176 per month which no body believes so I no longer tell them. I am now told with glee by many that the environmental destruction caused by the manufacture of my ev means that I will need to drive it for millions of miles for it to be better than ICE but here is where I feel the point is being missed and rarely mentioned my car emits nothing and now it’s built and found it’s way to my location you can lie a new born baby in a crib next to it and so long as you put the handbrake on no harm will come to the child. Not one of my neighbours can say that and they all have kids. so when you say what am I missing I say it’s the fumes we are missing and that can’t be bad can it ? I was not allowed to test my theory on anyone’s child just to confirm
It’s good that it works for you but for some others, it wouldn’t represent a saving or it would be so cumbersome so as to be not at all practical.
I too am in the lowest when it comes to income, an EV would actually cost me more to run than my current ICE car or would require an outlay first that would take many many years to recoup before I could even think about the savings being made on fuel.
When I look at cars, I don’t judge because it is an EV, I’m not a stick in the mud. Had I the infrastructure at home, I would have one like a shot because of the cost savings on fuel but I don’t have that infrastructure and to get it is unattainable due to finances and the alternative for me, is charging at public chargers at a nigh on 30 mile round trip on a stressful road and at an eye watering cost per kwh and that makes it unaffordable and not at all practical.
It may change at my next property (if I ever get to move, I’m rapidly losing hope), if I have a driveway. It would make it the obvious choice in vehicle.