The eight EVs, which we showed abandoned at the roadside in Nottingham yesterday, were recovered last night and are being prepared for sale at auction alongside another 35 new examples.
Car leasing firms say they have been the driving force behind EV growth - but are now being being left to 'shoulder' massive losses resulting from plummeting residual values.
Tempers flared when EV influencer Sam Evans tried to keep Spotlight's Liam Bartlett away from federal energy minister Chris Bowen at a recent electric vehicle expo.
Industry body the SMMT said 357,103 new passenger cars were registered in the UK in March. That's 39,317 more than were delivered in the same month last year.
Chinese EV giant BYD aims to double sales outside China in 2025 and will try to assemble cars locally, its chairman said in an earnings call on Tuesday.