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At present yes and so long as that continues, or alternatively if all fuels were to be equally taxed, then all good.

There was a time when this wasn't the case, 1990's with a tax on fuel oil but not on alternatives, and some weird and not at all wonderful ideas came up since it was high enough to be a problem. Coal was being put into shipping containers, and the containers then physically tipped over, as a workaround in one instance I'm aware of.......

Back to the EV's, the only real unanswered technical question at the moment relates to how average users will charge them in practice. Theory and ideas are nice but in practice?

By that I mean the ratio of using public fast chargers versus charging at home and at what time?

There's some concern within the power industry which could basically be summarised as saying that middle of the day would be best, middle of the night would be nice too, but we can live with anything so long as it doesn't involve too many cars being charged between 5pm and 9pm.

The underlying concern there isn't about technology but about actual consumer behaviour. Not what could be done but what actually happens? To the extent there's uncertainty that's where it is.

Anyway, at home I've provisioned for future easy installation of an EV charger with some recent work. Only problem is thus far I ain't got no EV to be charging.