Given it’s important to have the facts to make an informed decision, why has Government not told us how much tax we will be required to pay on our EV’s to contribute towards building and maintaining our roads? Note, too, EV’s are heavier than their non-EV equivalent so they’ll be harder still on our roads (Google it).
Second, the cost of building the infrastructure required to generate enough electricity to run EV’s will be significant. Will that be yet another tax or will it just mean less money for housing, health and education – or a combination of both?
And, of course, EV batteries cannot be recycled. Old EV batteries are already creating mountains of toxic waste all around the world (take a look at France for example). That is no small problem we are creating for future generations to have to deal with.
We are not anti-EV. In fact, if anything, we support better public transport systems. This post, then, is not a selfish one. We just think these issues need to be addressed so we have the information we need to 1/ help us make the right decisions for ourselves and 2/ know EV’s are the right way to go for the planet. We don’t want to just shift the problem.