Electric sales are ever increasing, not just in the UK but across mainland Europe, too. The switch is being facilitated by a patchwork of incentives offered by countries to minimise the price hike compared with combustion-engined cars.
However, we’re now at the point where countries including the UK are thinking the market has become self-supporting, allowing them to slow or stop the financial help.
The process is likened by Matthias Schmidt, analyst and author of the European Electric Car Study, to parents working out exactly when to take the stabilisers off the bike.
