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Electric cars: Drivers offered up to £3,750 discount (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Government will subsidise prices cuts to encourage a shift away from petrol and diesel.

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This looks like great news, but I’m willing to bet the average selling price of these cars are going to go up by around £3,750.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm naive but there's plenty of competition in the car market, if a manufacturer raises their prices but the rest don't then they'll be shooting themselves in the foot.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I read somewhere that there were 50 possible models this could apply to. In each price range 15-20k, 20-25k etc the competition is vanishing small. If you need a car and have ££k to spend there are only a couple of options. They know they can price gouge, and the dealers don’t really want to sell the EV models, because they make no money on servicing.