As a writer who specialises in cars, I’ve driven more than 20 new electric vehicles (EVs) in the past year, and while it is difficult to find a genuinely bad car these days, I have been surprised at the gulf between the genuinely good stuff in the electric market and those models that are very easy to forget.
According to one of the UK’s largest trade associations, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), sales of battery electric vehicles hit a record high last year. In fact, an impressive 473,348 new EVs were registered in the UK, which accounted for a 23.9 per cent increase over the previous year.
Thanks in part to a swelling of customer choice and a lowering of the overall entry price, battery electric vehicles are arguably more appealing than evern. This is further buoyed by the fact that ZapMap, one of the leading charging locators, claims that the UK EV charging network is growing at a rapid rate, with the number of publicly-available chargers almost doubling between 2023 and the end of 2025.
Thanks to removal of numerous barriers to entry, most of the world’s most recognisable automakers boast an impressive line-up of EVs, which includes everything from small city runarounds to large SUVs, while newcomers – many hailing from China – are introducing lower cost, high-tech electric vehicles to rival established players.
Read more: The i Paper
