Sales of second-hand electric cars are booming. Auto Trader, the market leader, reported this week that they are up by 63 per cent in the first half of 2024 compared with a year earlier. In explanation, Ian Plummer, the company’s commercial director, told the FT: “We have reached that price parity point that bridges the affordability gap for the consumer,” Buyers, he said, were seeing the attractions of EVs now they were not being punished in the wallet for “doing the right thing.”