Leon Smethurst decided to start leasing an electric vehicle (EV) after he went to fill up his diesel car and the bill topped £90.
“I watched the price of fuel go up 2p or 3p a day and thought this was getting ridiculous,” he said looking back to March this year, when the start of the Iran war caused a spike in fuel prices.
Smethurst is among tens of thousands of people who have been encouraged to buy an EV since the conflict began earlier this year.
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Data from motoring analysts New Automotive found EV sales rose 23.9 per cent in the first 100 days of the war compared to the same period last year. Octopus Energy’s EV business has reported a 55 per cent increase in demand over the same period.
