Geraldine Herbert

Yeah, definitely that's happening at the moment.

When EVs first appeared, they just made bigger cars even heavier.

But now with battery and platform costs are falling and actually EV car makers now have managed to squeeze a lot of space out of smaller cars.

So they're making smaller cars more attractive.

And we have seen like the Renault 4, the Fiat 500, Volkswagen have a new Polo electric coming.

So we are seeing new and smaller cars coming back, which is great because, I mean, Ford retired the Fiesta back

a couple of years ago, simply because with emissions and everything, they couldn't make

affordable, smaller cars.

But we are definitely seeing that tide turn.

And also the Chinese are coming in with, you know, smaller, cheaper EVs.

Yeah, the same way as parking spaces are being removed in terms of just on-street parking, just less fits on the road.

It's exactly the same thing.

Yeah, it's simple as that.

It's just carrying bigger weights, so it needs a bigger tyre.

Yeah, I think the problem as well is offering consumers choice.

And at the moment, there isn't a huge amount.

If you have a family and you're looking for, you know,

If you're looking for a family car, you're being sold SUVs, you're being sold crossovers.

So I think that's why I would look at changing the EU type approval to force carmakers at a European level to actually restrict the size of their cars.

And I think that in turn would provide more choice.