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The thing with electric vehicles is that people complain that there isn't an infrastructure in place to charge them otherwise they might consider one.

If you have an electric car you might consider shopping in Accrington, free parking and somewhere to top your car back up, I doubt it will be free usually a company like Ecotricity charges you through a card system but it generally equates to 2p a mile.

I was quite sceptical of electric cars but I now drive a Nissan Leaf as a company car and for me personally it saves me quite a bit of money because I only use it to work and back and I can charge it free there.

The problem with the cars as far as I can see is residual values because people are sceptical and also the expensive batteries which someone has mentioned so the second hand market is still difficult for these cars.

As far as New cars go the Nissan Dealer where I work was selling a New Leaf for under £200 a month on a 2 year PCP contract in March which when you take your fuel bill out of the equation isn't bad for a 25k car. I know you don't own it etc but it takes away the worry of any residual and several people from Accrington did purchase one.

Like I said previously I was quite sceptical myself but I think it's one way city/town cars might go in the future.