As I mentioned to Roger who recently covered this topic. There are over 35 million cars on our roads, with a million of them electric ? >68% of EV are lease sales ?
Exactly. EV numbers are bound to be increasing and, because they are coming from such a small base, percentage increases will always be massive and far greater than other car types. However, the far more relevant and telling statistic is what percentage of the total cars on our roads do they represent. As you say, 1m EVs out of 35m cars is nothing to shout about and when you drill down to private ownership it’s miniscule. That’s why a number of us were saying well before the PM announced the pushing back of the cut off dates that you only needed to have the most basic knowledge of maths to work out that the 2030/35 dates were never remotely achievable.