Public transport doesn't work everywhere. It's great in big urban areas but once you get out into lower density countryside it's hard to run something comprehensive.

If the choice is between a diesel or an EV then we should insentivise the EV. However direct subsidies for buying cars probably won't work as well as widening access to charging. I see they are trying to make the process of adapting pavements for curbside charging easier which I think will help more.

Charging from the socket is about a tenth the cost of public charging infrastructure and with solar it becomes functionality free.

Why waste money subsidising the car industry when they could invest that money in proper public transport?

Fucking new Labour.

EVs are better than ICE cars but they're still shit for the environment and for society. Electric buses, trains, trams, and good cycle paths do a much better job for the environment, the mass transit of people, and for social cohesion. Fuck.

But Heidi Alexander would not confirm whether it would give grants to encourage motorists to switch when asked by Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday, following a report in the Telegraph, external that Labour is poised to unveil £700m in subsidies.

Isn't this the very thing they need to be incentivising? Switching from ICE to EV vehicles?

For people without off-street parking - like those living in blocks of flats or terraced houses - charging an EV overnight can often be challenging, while on-street charging points can be far more expensive than charging from a mains socket.

What about offering people without a drive but with an EV some kind of discount when using public chargers?