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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Hm. As of now the only running costs for Bulbasaur (my Nissan Leaf) is insurance, as you don't pay road tax on electric cars, and I charge her for free at a charging point. If all cars are electric, I doubt that'd stay the same, so I'll say no thanks. Environmentally speaking, there's little point in taking steps like that anyway, unless China and India cut down their pollution.

It would be impossible for it to be free, and also, I'm not sure how they plan to address the fact that the UK grid doesn't produce anywhere near enough electricity to be charging over 30 million electric vehicles .

There's no such thing as a 100% clean car, until we are running the country on 100% renewable energy. If a car is plugged into the electricity grid to charge, then it is running on electricity generated by fossil fuels / nuclear energy 85% of the time, because that's where 85% of our electricity comes from.