Electric vehicles for driving instructors

As a driving instructor, your car gets a lot of use: the average instructor drives 30,000 miles each year. This makes it important that your car costs as little as possible to run.

Charging an electric car at home, especially on an off-peak tariff, would save you a lot of money on fuel compared to a petrol or diesel car.

Another worry for driving instructors is service and maintenance costs. The high usage of training cars, particularly by learner drivers, means that clutches and brakes can wear out much faster.

In an electric car, there’s no clutch, so you save on the costs of servicing or replacing this. Plus, the braking system is more efficient than in petrol or diesel cars, which drastically extends their lifetime.

Electric cars also mean lower taxes and avoiding clean air zone or low emission zone charges.

As an instructor, range might be a concern, particularly when you’re giving several lessons back-to-back. But most electric cars now have a range of at least 200 miles. You can also rapid charge electric cars in half an hour if 200 miles isn’t enough range.