My Experience After One Year of Going Full “EV”
The good, the bad and the ugly of electric driving
I’m not sure why, but I’d always wanted to go electric.
Like most blokes, I’ve always loved cars. So much so that I even decided to become a racing driver last year at the age of 52, getting my racing license and completing my rookie season with a respectable 25th out of 51 entrants in the 2023 Nankang City Car Cup Challenge.
But that’s a story for another day.
The truth is that until a few years ago I hadn’t been able to afford the luxury of an electric vehicle. Well, at least not one that I actually wanted anyway. But as my situation changed in 2020 onwards, it finally became a serious consideration.
Of course, the fact that the UK government had introduced an incentive scheme (whereby if you bought a brand new electric vehicle through your company, you could, in simple terms, offset the entire cost against tax in the first year) may also have been an influence.
Having both a company and some profits I’d rather not hand over tax for at that time, I decided that this was the moment. But where to start?
