The development of electric cars is all very commendable but why do the poor now have to pay to subsidise the rich so that they can be tempted into buying expensive electric cars.The Government is set to offer up to £5000 off an electric car in the form of a subsidy to tempt a purchaser into buying. Well it seems to me that if a purchaser can afford £30,000 for a effectively 20 mile range electric car allowing for city traffic congestion and the purchase attracts a £5000 subsidy paid for by the average working family in taxes then that person is more than able to pay the full price in the first place since it wont be their one and only car. They will still need their gas -guzzler for intercity and holidays.

Current indications are that the break even price comparative between the same ICE engine car and the battery car occurs at around 200,000 miles.

The combined CO2 emissions or savings from soil to scrap between the same two cars is not known.

Douglas Mills, Fraser Road, Poole