Subsidies are given to manufacturers to sell EV’s at a comparable price by central govt in 🇬🇧. Then gas/diesel purchases are taxed more, with daily toll charges to drive it through London. 2 actually, one for not being an EV, the second introduced decades ago as a congestion charge. Amount of cars didn’t reduce, but self employed passed costs to customers. 

 So sounds like the average Joe taxpayer is paying for all of it