Comment by walthamstow
5 days ago
As other siblings have said, it's also very rich and offers mega tax breaks for EVs.
Out of interest, do you mean 6% of cars on the road of 6% of new cars sold last year?
5 days ago
As other siblings have said, it's also very rich and offers mega tax breaks for EVs.
Out of interest, do you mean 6% of cars on the road of 6% of new cars sold last year?
I mean sales, specifically new car pure EV sales for 2025. We are only at 3% EVs on the road.
I think for much of the population a brand new EV is simply too expensive.
Tbf a plug-in is just an EV that somehow runs on petrol 4 times a year. In practice the vast majority of driving is done on battery power.
sadly thats not true at all. In practice, on average as a category, PHEVs barely save any real world emissions over gas (~20%).
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-...
https://electrek.co/2026/02/19/biggest-study-yet-shows-plug-...
If you include PHEVs along with pure EVs the total is around 12% total sales for 2025, and 4% total on the road. I'm not sure when PHEVs became available overseas but they haven't been an option here for that long. Heaps of hybrids are being sold but for now still mostly of the traditional non-plug-in type.
As alliao says, this is partly because of the way road user charges (RUC) currently work, though that is slated to change in the future.
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