Talk:Plug-in electric vehicles in the United Kingdom

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Orphaned references in Plug-in electric vehicles in the United Kingdom[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Plug-in electric vehicles in the United Kingdom's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "UK2014_2015":

From Nissan Leaf: Staff (2016-01-15). "Record-breaking year for plug-in cars". Fleet News. Retrieved 2016-01-17. Leaf registrations in the UK totaled 5,236 units in 2015, up from 4,051 in 2014.
From List of modern production plug-in electric vehicles: Staff (2016-01-15). "Record-breaking year for plug-in cars". Fleet News. Retrieved 2016-01-17. A total of 5,236 Nissan Leafs and 2,213 BMW i3s were registered in the UK in 2015.
From Plug-in hybrid: Staff (2016-01-15). "Record-breaking year for plug-in cars". Fleet News. Retrieved 2016-01-17. Mitsubishi Outlander P-HEV registrations inn the UK totaled 5,364 units in 2014 and 11,681 in 2015.
From BMW i3: Staff (2016-01-15). "Record-breaking year for plug-in cars". Fleet News. Retrieved 2016-01-17. A total of 1,393 BMW i3s were registered in the UK in 2014, and 2,213 in 2015.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 06:38, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed --Mariordo (talk) 01:54, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This page really needs updating to reflect the multiple cuts in the PICG from 2018 to 2020, and also cuts in grants for EVSEs from 500 down to 350. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Speculatrix (talk • contribs) 22:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Real EVs[edit]

This page ***REALLY*** needs to differentiate between *real* EVs (as in those vehicles that do not have an exhaust pipe AKA 'battery EVs') and fake ones ie any sort of hybrid (including ones powered by fuel-cells). Pretending that our ecological and geo-political woes will be solved by fostering the uptake of hybrids is simply deluded. All the research done on the subject shows that hardly any plug-in hybrid owners actually ever plug them in. Meanwhile, we have the likes of Toyota and others wittering on about 'self-charging hybrids'. Really?! What, so the energy they use to 'self-charge' comes from Scotch mist and pixie dust then, does it? No! It comes from burning fossil fuels, FCOL!

So, either split up the numbers between real EVs and the rest or just bin the page and and start again only looking at EVs (battery EVs if you must but ask anyone in the street what an 'EV' is they won't say "Oh, that's a self-charging hybrid!". They know what most rational people know which is that an EV is powered by a battery alone... Period.)! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martinwinlow (talk • contribs) 09:33, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Martinwinlow, several clarifications to your comment. First, this article does not cover nor the figures presented account for conventional hybrids, but rather plug-in electric vehicles (BEVs + PHEVs). Second, the article does not cover fuel cell vehicles either, but technically FCEVs are indeed electric vehicles since their motion comes from an onboard electric motor, and the electricity is generated by a fuel cell, nowadays, using hydrogen as fuel. FCEVs are considered zero-emissions vehicles whether you like it or not. Of course the carbon footprint depends on how clean is the energy matrix for electricity generation (in the case of BEVs) or how clean is the industrial process to produce hydrogen (in the case of FCEVs). Finally, the British government use the Plug-in Car Grant as an incentive for the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles, and the article is consistent with that definition, which as already stated, covers both battery electric vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles. If the article is dated regarding the evolution and changes in the PICG please go ahead and do an update, or at least tag it to request such update. Finally, please remember that Wikipedia is NOT a blog, we all are required to support all content with reliable sources (See WP:RS), as this article does, personal opinions or original research (See WP:OR) are not acceptable. Cheers.--Mariordo (talk) 16:20, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]