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Jim Holder
Many of our EVs come from China, such as Polestar 2
DO YOU CONSIDER where a car is built before you buy it?
That’s a simple question I asked electric car owners via (the not very scientific medium of) social media recently, expecting a range of environmentally and socially motivated answers.
Yet of the 100 or so who responded, only a handful said the country of origin of their EV had any bearing on their decision to buy it. Surprising? I thought so. It revealed to me that rather than environmental imperatives, it was EVs’ economic benefits (currently much diminished during the cost of living crisis, unless you can enjoy the company car tax and congestion charge upsides) that motivated most buyers.