EVs aren’t exactly new; there’s a deep, accessble secondhand market by now. I’ve been using a 2019 Nissan Leaf as a primary family car for two years now, that I picked up off Gumtree for around £3k. It’s been one of the best (little) cars I’ve ever owned.

Not saying new EVs aren’t pricey, but if you want into electric on a budget (i.e. because you don’t feel like you can afford to fill up on diesel) it can absolutely be done.

The id.Polo starts at 22k GBP. The ordinary, petrol-driven Polo also starts at 22k. You can see how massive increases in the price of petrol and diesel might influence purchasing behaviour there...

This is a good site for seeing the differents UK models, and their prices, that are on the market or coming onto the market.

These are all models under £20,000 - https://ev-database.org/uk/#group=vehicle-group&av-1=1&av-23...

There's also a large number of used EVs available. Here's a selection of 2024+ models between £8000-£10000

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?channel=cars&fuel-ty...

Price sensitivity doesn’t spring into existence at the point something becomes unaffordable.

You have half a point here.

Diesel was traditionally the fuel of people who did high miles. Ie not the people that can't have an EV 'just in case they need to do 300 miles on a day's, because they probably legitimately are.

You kind of spoil that point by pull £80k out of your arse without looking at comparable diesels though.

There are new 30k euros EVs on the marker right now.