The Tesla Model 3 starts at £40,990 and has a WLTP range of 278 miles.Īt the other end of the market, well-healed drivers can opt for the 188-mile Porsche Taycan 4S from £84,030, or if you’ve a couple of million burning a crater in your pocket, there’s the Lotus Evija and Pininfarina Battista, both members of the freshly minted 2,000 horsepower club. You could pick up a second-hand Renault Zoe for around £5,000 (plus £49 per month for Renault’s battery leasing scheme) if all you need is a small city car with a range of about 100 miles.īut if you’re shopping for new wheels you’ll need to budget £19,995 for the 115-mile Fiat 500e (after the £2,500 government grant, more on which later), or £27,595 for a 245-mile Renault Zoe. If you’re in the market now and considering the switch to electric, you have more choice than ever. Here are the 24 most exciting electric cars coming in 2021. The UK ban on new petrol cars is less than a decade away. But, if other concerns are important, it becomes complicated. Should you buy an electric car now? Environmentally, 100 per cent yes.

And with the 2030 ban looming, it's time to help make sense of it all. Range, charging, tax breaks, location, your driving habits and even the weather all come into play. But buying an EV in the UK in 2021 is still more complex than stumping up the cash and plugging it in. This certainly puts electric cars on a positive trajectory, and more options are available than ever before. In the first eight months of 2021, fully-electric vehicles accounted for 8.4 per cent of new sales in the UK, a gain of 106.7 per cent on the same period of 2020. Hybrid vehicles, including mild, plug-in and full hybrids, accounted for a combined 38.4 per cent. In August 2021, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) had a 10.9 per cent share of the UK market, with plug-in hybrids at 7.4 per cent, diesel at 7.5 per cent – a 65 per cent fall on the previous year – and petrol at 43.3 per cent. Electric car sales still represent a small proportion of new vehicle sales each month, but growth in this sector continues to accelerate.

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