BYD Atto 3 for £275pm

But an ORA Funky Cat (now called 03) over 10k pa for 2 years works out at about £255pm (ish) including up front payment of varying sizes. Not bad? An eUp! is about £10.500 which is about £295pm. The ORA 03 is probably the better car.

The Spring looks like an excellent drive-to-work machine, especially now that nobody notices what you arrive in.

…or on foot. No, of course not. But whole marques have risen and fallen on the strength of ‘image’. I suppose Dacia now is about where Škoda used to be as the ‘anti-image’ candidate to show I’m above all that nonsense. (Says someone whose regular transport from the ages of 0 to 20 was a succession of Renault 4s.)

Incidentally, the forthcoming, EV Renault 4 seems to miss the point as spectacularly as the new 5 nails it. What’s that supposed to be?
www.autoexpress.co.uk/renault/4/354670/new-2025-renault-4-get-pure-electric-power

It'll be 1* because of a lack of active safety bolloxes like Lane Keep Assist and all that shiraz. Can do without, personally.

Not sure I care. So long as the premiums aren't chicken oriental. I expect a Spring to be cheaper to insure than my Leaf. Good enough for me.

Ah, the C4-X. Funny looking thing, although in the dusk with the light behind, it might pass for a Polestar 2. Not sure I’ve ever seen one, although it popped up on the generally excellent Electrifying channel when that seemed to be receiving some, ahem, cooperation from Citroën. As Vić points out, it does seem too big to be handy and too limited to be useful - although in a world (adopts film trailer voice) where charging was plentiful and painless, you wouldn’t worry about the occasional long trip in something like this. In the meantime, it would quite adequately do what most Discoverys do week after week.

I read Fisker are on the brink. Shame as their Ocean model looked pretty good. Can't have been cheap building them in Austria and shipping to America though.

A Polish company has offered $150m I think it was but with conditions.

Edit: I've seen one C4-X, looks OK from some angles and out of proportion from some other angles. R5 still looks good to me, waiting to see if they do something along the lines of the R5 turbo. VW have GTX'd the i3.