According to sources, the Government’s ambition of getting 1.7 million plug-in electric vehicles on the road by the year by 2020 will be highly problematic if we don’t take a more Gallic approach to the issue. Even with the £5000 government grant for those wishing to buy an electric car, owners will be hit with a bill that even cheap car breakdown cover from Start Rescue would do little to take the sting out of.
The French are offering far bigger incentives to those of a mind to buy a greener car. But perhaps the most appealing thing about investing in electric is the fact that the Sarkozy’s government are slapping an extra large fee on so called gas-guzzler vehicles. Such a dramatic stance (introduced in 2008) certainly demonstrates that the French are serious about adopting electric car technology, thereby reducing greenhouse gases.
And there are of course other concerns among British drivers – are there enough charge points for where they live and travel? Do the available vehicles have long enough range in order to be usable on a day to day basis? These questions are naturally faced by the French too, but they seem to be embracing the concept a little more than us.
Another area that the government and car makers are perhaps failing on, is letting the average consumer know how amazingly green these cars actually are. If we do ever manage to exchange all of our petrol cars for electric ones, the air in our streets will be a great deal cleaner, but perhaps more importantly, the effect on the wider planet will a lot less dramatic.
The costs of going electric, however, do appear to be pretty high – and until the prices come down you’ll just have to make do with cheap car breakdown cover from Start Rescue to soften the blow.
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