“ELECTRIC CARS DIE YOUNG”
Even in you will occasionally hear someone say “I don’t want an electric car yet I’ll wait until I can be sure they’re robust ” I’d like to reassure you nervous late adopter they’ve been robust since well ever
The DVLA has freely downloadable databases of the numbers of all car models when they were registered and how many were still taxed or SORNed every quarter year It’s very unwieldy though so we can all be grateful to how many left co uk This is an amazing project by Olly Smith which tidies up the data and makes it more accessible not least by letting you crunch all cars of a specific model together rather than having to total up each trim and limited edition
Right let’s dive into the old EVs Some Nissan Leafs were registered from to so they’re years old And of these are still taxed with another on SORN That’s a survival rate of very nearly three-quarters per cent For comparison of the Ford Focuses from the same age band per cent remain
Even more amazing per cent of the Peugeot iOns and Citroen CZeros from that era survive I didn’t include the Mitsubishi iMiEV because some might have come from Japan to colour the data
The Renault Zoe didn’t get going until but per cent of the ones from are still out there
So even primitive early EVs with small batteries that need frequent cycling are pretty tough I’d certainly not fret about the more recent ones Paul Horrell