I know nothing about electric cars. However, by hearsay I have heard of a family that have bought? a Renault Zoe. This is what I have been told. They have a maximum distance of 80 miles available on one charge. The batteries have to be hired at £70 per month, while this might obviate the horrendous cost ( alleged) of new batteries, I can get my Jazz to give me over 200 miles on less than 5 gallons of petrol. If they want to travel a distance it is either hire a car or use a second car they have bought for the purpose.
So depreciation has already been covered, so has enormous outlay new. I read somewhere, might even have been posted by a member of a relatively new Prius that needed new batteries and was virtually unsaleable even with new batteries presumably being available. Surely given a reasonable asking price, and batteries are available it would still be a saleable vehicle if the future is electric.
We are told that renewables are the answer and yet wind turbines are dependent on the right wind and the other day in one of the nationals a wave power scheme has collapsed after only a short while. What I have difficulty with is NOBODY ever seems to count the cost of producing, money and energy, the turbines in the first place. Just up the road from us are three very big ones. One is very close to the main road and in the recent past a turbine not so far away had it's blades fall of. Bicycles, which we are being told to buy and ride, they still need a lot of energy to make. I am sorry if I am being contentious but who do we believe, our political masters ALL seem to have a vested interest.