PeterGray wrote:How long will the congestion charge exemption for low emission vehicles last if EV's start being taken up big time?
Presumably it will be discounted as long as their are comparatively higher emissions vehicles to disincentivise, although I'd imagine it will move down to zero emission only. Since the primary aim of all these tax breaks, subsidies, congestion charge exemptions and emission charging is to encourage the purchase and use of lower emission vehicles moving the bar down as the trend line drops would be eminently sensible. That said anybody expecting logic or consistency in the policy of governments may be disappointed. It is possible that having attained a situation where only zero emission cars are capable of driving in the city the rate would be permanently set at £0 and the charge allowed to tail off in to extinction, but then one is reminded in a timely fashion that income tax was introduced as a temporary measure to fund war with the French.
odysseus2000 wrote:
As things now are, and they could change with robotic driving & political mandates, I feel that the way to look at what will do well as a car is to consider what historically has done well, starting with the model T and progressing through the list of popular models since.
So Beetle, Golf ...id.3!
Welcome to the club.
There are of course a few minor problems with using century old demographics as a guide to tomorrow's purchase patterns, and attributing range as a property of successful cars in a world where all cars successful or unsuccessful had exactly the same effective range might be seen as somewhat contrived, even if the entire exercise doesn't seem completely at odds with your mantra that BEV's represent not an evolutionary step in personal transport but a revolutionary disruption. Surely the entire point of a revolutionary disruption should be that it can't be modelled on past data?