raybarrow wrote: I did, briefly, consider electric but the initial cost and lack of convenient charging infrastructure put me off. Having said that I did notice yesterday that our local Tesco has installed electric charging points. It's not a big store and has no petrol station, so that's encouraging.
If considering buying a new car as you seemed to indicate then the numbers are getting far closer for electric cars.
You can now lease an electric Seat Mii for around £180 a month (same car as the VW Up!), a Nissan Leaf for £210, or a Hyundai Ioniq for £230 over three years (1+35 deals), which would give a fuel cost of around £180 for 15k miles over that time compared to £2k in petrol, and with no road tax saving £450. However even lower fuel cost if you use Tesco to charge as they are allowing people to charge up for free at 7kW.
Depreciation on a new VW Polo or Ford Fiesta from new over 3 years - £10k? so around £12.5k plus servicing to run, so even if you were looking at a discounted pre-reg car to reduce the depreciation that is still likely more expensive to own than a Mii at under £7k or a Leaf at less than £8k.
Obviously numbers don’t work if comparing with a several year old used car.