The UK is essentially the most suited market in Europe to the mass-adoption of EVs, particularly fleets, in accordance with new information that analysed 1.3 million automobiles throughout seven international locations.

In its ‘Taking cost: on the highway to an EV future’ report, analytics agency Geotab claims 66% of combustion-powered UK-based fleet automobiles may very well be swapped for an electrical various with out impacting each day usability and saving companies hundreds of kilos in prices.

The key to this declare is the mileage pushed by UK enterprise motorists. Over 12 months, tracked automobiles averaged 52 miles a day – “well within the limits of current EV technology”, Aaron Jarvis, Geotab’s AVP gross sales and enterprise improvement, advised Autocar.

“Of the [vehicles we tracked], 49% never drove more than 250 miles in a day during the period of the study,” he added.