Rory Sutherland Rory Sutherland

Buying a brand-new car is the ultimate good deed

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issue 25 June 2022

The Department for Transport recently ended a £1,500 subsidy towards the price of new, lower-priced electric cars one year earlier than planned. To their credit, there are better ways to promote electric-car use – for instance by encouraging the installation of public charging stations.

As it is, the spread of rapid-charging stations in the UK is bizarrely uneven.

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