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Have you checked the latest car tax rates best go for electric if you do not intend to do a lot of long distance trips. Nissan Leaf is a real success story

There lies the problem.
I'd avoid an electric car , purely because they're no suitable for long distance motoring .
A hybrid is a different matter .
At least fuel can be put in , whereas a charging station , you need time to wait , while the car is charging up .
How long does that take ?

Takes about 1 hour to charge at a fast charging point from a very low battery top a full one some of the new models are returning over 130 mpg on a longish journey
A friend of mine has Toyota hybrid and gets around 90 mpg

You can now get up to 9000 euros on a qualifying car in part ex even if it is only worth 2000 under the new government incentive scheme .

The batteries usually take up the whole floor panel and in a Telsa they just change the floor panel takes about 2 hours max

quite cheap apparently and the old batteries are remanufactured

Generally speaking, a Tesla Battery is warranted to last at least eight years and should last beyond that time frame. Consider thinking of a Tesla battery as lifetime component of the Tesla vehicle – the battery should last for the life of the car. The degradation of the Tesla battery will not happen all at once.Sep 9, 2020

I think I'll stick with a petrol car .

By the time you have decided Petrol cars will be non existent

What a coincidence----had this very same conversation with my son a few weeks ago

We started off by wanting to be green and go for an electric car

Then after critical cross questioning each other --thought hybrid would be better

Didn't to too long after that to make the intelligent leap to stick with petrol for the very reasons that Athos has stated

I’m with Euro 6 diesel. I think Hydrogen is the future.

And have you thought of how much electrical energy was used to make blue Diesel