Let's be a little bit more nuanced.
Many businesses need cars with longer range and easy, reliable charging. Only Teslas offer this with the Supercharger network.
Teslas and the small number of other long range EVs are all over £35k. Even the Kona and E-Niro.
Adding £3k on to their prices is going to affect the cost of having these EVs and may well deter EV uptake by businesses.
While everyone agrees that we need cheaper EVs and the government has to save money to pay for covid, the argument is not as black and white as you have stated.
I certainly hope so. Tesla reduced the price of its cars in Japan to compete.
Tesla Inc.’s Model 3 sales appear to be taking off in Japan since it cut prices on the mid-range electric sedan last month.
www.bloomberg.com
I test drove a Model 3 long range on Sunday with a view to having one on a business contract hire.
It wasn't sufficiently better than my Ioniq to justify the cost right now. Especially since we can't go anywhere until after lockdown and then all the hotels will be fully booked for the rest of the year, I reckon.