EV Sales in UK Fall

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by FXSTi

Nissan say $27,700 if you qualify for all the tax incentives. The incentives only reduce your taxes owed and are not a rebate.

(Note to Nissan UK - your website sucks)

A Leaf is priced at £30K here. 20% of that is VAT so £25K real for a comparison. Take off £5K taxpayer incentive still makes it £20k. Which at an exchange of 1.6 means a price of $32K for a small hatchback. Here in the UK VAT is still applicable so the real cost of a Leaf is $48K, or almost double the US price.

A Polo Bluemotion is about $18K without VAT, George would cost $12K new.

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

...ah, but the "real" question should be: are the sales of the gasoline & diesel vehicles also down by similar amounts?

Originally Posted by Autoblog

It's the guys pounding the motorways in creased up suits every day that the SMMT thanks for buoying the market: fleet sales are up overall, while private sales are down by 9.3 percent.

From here.

Originally Posted by Cars UK

Figures just released by the Government Department of Guesswork says that in the last three months just 215 electric cars have been sold in the UK, and around 75% of those to businesses.

Which means just 50 individuals in the UK have bought an electric car...

So its actually worse, its only the increasing fleet sales propping up the EV numbers, individuals are staying away in droves.

[tjts1]

Seeing how the whole UK car market is shrinking rapidly, I don't think anyone is surprised. EV sales are just following the wider trend.

[Arragonis]

True, although even during the good sales years they never really got off the ground much and now they are suffering even more.

Its a shame they are so expensive, I could use one on my daily commute, but I would need to keep an ICE car for anything longer or for winter which defeats the object.