I love a recent conversation. Couple in Islington, big struggle to get out of debt, paying for 3 kids. Lady becomes qualified teacher and 'needs' a car for school. Choice is a £4k modern Mini in the correct colour, increasing their debt, not good. Also seems a rather inappropriate vehicle for city use. This is what we are up against. A refusal to buy the best answer for the job in hand (or maybe not buying anything!) but a willingness to take the risk for something fashionable at a probably higher cost than expected.
Ultimately it well need the Government of the nation, or capital, to create conditions to force some compliance with genuine green and efficient answers to city traffic, rather than taking a bounty off it to squander. There exists every reason to create better electric cars, but no market place strong enough to warrant the investment of private money. We are being badly let down and fibs from the top make it no better. Who do you vote for on that. Eer, sound of wind blowing, no one. Not even the Greens have a policy that can work.
Still no doubt the new Top Gear, or what ever it is, will deal with such interesting problems by burning old cars in Battersea power station to see which has the highest calorific value, or some such twaddle. Life on the media's equivalent of low fat Shake.
Tesla.
