Ignore the "EV" part.

B = Battery

H = Hybrid

PH = Plug-in hybrid (Same as a hybrid but you can charge up the hybrid battery at home)

There is also MHEV

To be fair, the article is written on a website for the auto industry, so it's reasonable for them to assume their target audience is familiar with these terms. I argue the onus is on OP for explaining these since they're sharing it to a different audience than it was written for.

Don’t forget PZEV (Partial Zero-Emissions Vehicle) which isn’t even an EV at all!

This is actually something I think is a pretty big failing in a lot of internet publishing

You could easily turn those terms in the article into hyperlinks to definitions.

You could even have the links go to definitions hosted on your own website to boost page reads and ad counts if you really wanted to

Yeah, all but diesel is up a lot. Electric only slightly more than gas as percentage

People who can't afford diesel are not running out to buy an £80,000 EV I assure you.

Fuel in the UK is £1.58 a litre (£1.48 at one garage I passed today, £1.61 at another, some garages are certainly profiteering)

In 2022 is was £1.89 a litre and spent most of the year over £1.60 a litre

Adjusted for inflation that would be most of the year at £1.85, and a high of £2.18 a litre

https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time

From 2011 to 2014 petrol was about £1.30 a litre. Adjusted for inflation terms that's £1.80-£2 a litre -- far less than current "highs".

The average UK car does 8000 miles and about 45mpg (uk gallons), or about 10 miles per litre. It thus costs 800 litres, or £1,260 a year.

Last year petrol was £1.35 a litre, and thus £184 a year less for the average car.

Fuel is insanely cheap in the UK in historic terms, just not as cheap as it was last year.

A lot of fast chargers are over $1 per kwh so unless you have access to home charging there isn't much room for savings.

> BYD sold 14,911 units in April 2026

> total vehicle sales in March 2026 was 269,483 units

So BYD market share is 5.5% in Brazil.

Somewhat. But price rises for electricity aren't remotely on the same scale as price rises for diesel and petrol, and fuel/electricity was a smaller part of the TCO to _start_ with for electric cars.

That depends entirely on where you are. In Ontario electricity is mostly hydro, nuclear, and renewables. But also, compared to burning gas directly, EVs are still more efficient and require less gas if you burn the gas to charge the EV.

Electric price in the uk on an off peak tariff overnight is about 7p/kWh, or about 2p/mile, so charging your car overnight with the average electric mileage (10,000 miles a year - higher than the average mileage) costs £200, about £1300 a year less than petrol.

Even then, EVs are still cheaper to operate.

Electricity generation is already diversified. Nuclear, coal, gas, solar, wood, witches, etc. The fuel mix can be tweaked as the economics change. ICE vehicle fleet is stuck with one energy source.

The UK is well suited to wind power, already has many wind turbines, and continues to install more. We have a good amount of solar panels too. Renewables provide the majority of electrical power when conditions are good and the share will only increase. Electric vehicles avoid the biggest weakness of renewables (unreliable base load), because they can be set to charge unattended when cheap electricity is available. Electricity suppliers offer variable rate tariffs specifically for electric vehicles.

Maybe, in the best case, your gas engine is maybe 45% fuel efficient, but realistically, you're probably getting closer to 20-25%. By contrast, a combined cycle power plant gets over 60%.

But that's assuming we're just running power plants off of petrol and fuels. Coal is much cheaper than petroleum in some cases. There's also a lot of people who get their power from nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind. In many cases, your electric prices are not at all affected by the increases in petrullium prices, because most of your electricity is coming from something else. In fact, I doubt there's any place in the world that all your electricity is coming from petroleum fuels. Even if that's the major input, there are almost undoubtedly other sources in the mix.