RE: Scheme Sanction?6 Jan 2026 18:07
Totally agree RICH3R, they are the Betamax of the modern age. Some people like them but never enough for the format to take over and be the mainstay.
If you removed the subsidy from them, then sales would plummet. If you have to intervene in a free market then you can be sure the product is rubbish.
If EVs were cheaper and better, and the same goes for heat pumps then you wouldn't have to bribe or coerce people to buy them because they'd want them anyway.
Imagine they came up with a car half the price of an EV, that was cheap to insure, cheap to run, easy and cheap to fix, didn't depreciate horrifically and could be recharged in about three minutes at any one of thousands of convenient outlets around the country. People would knock the forecourt doors down to buy one.