whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote

Right so all you have to do is find ways
to make peolpe want electric cars

Not even possible, they have so many downsides.

So you reduce or eliminate the downsides

Not even possible with electric cars.

that's the point isn't it. Such things as less
tax, cheap charging, no congestion charge.

Nothing like enough to get everyone to use electric cars.

and I don;t think teh govenemtn puttiung a huge tax
on them to replace teh tax they lose on pertol will work.

Corse it would work. Whether it makes sense
to do that is an entirely different issue.

Making electric cars cost more per mile than
pertol or desiel to run is not currently the aim.

But we were discussing what the govt might
do if the bulk of people have electric cars so
the govt no longer has the immense revenue
from the tax on petrol and diesel. IMO they
are very unlikely to just yawn and do nothing.