To wonder if someone like me can afford an electric car?

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Always had 10yr old+ second hand cars, last one I spent £3.5k on. Currently spending around £250 a month in Diesel and wondering if there's some way I could go electric and either cut costs or have it work out the same? I can't afford to buy a new car outright, we have a low household income. I've never bought a car on any kind of payment scheme and have no idea how they work but there must be some kind of scheme for electric vehicles that make it affordable for people like me?
We rent and can't put in a charging point, but there are two in the town I work in (none in our closest town or our village, but plans are in place to put a few in the village car park in the next few years). I drive to work 4-5 times a week, 30 mile round trip, very rarely do long journeys.

I'm just wondering if the amount I spend on Diesel could offset costs of getting an electric car. Is this a silly idea? I feel like they aren't for people like us, but I don't want that to be true.

I have done some Googling but it's quite overwhelming and I've no idea what I'm looking for. I work for the NHS but not directly, so my employer isn't part of any salary sacrifice car schemes.

We've just ordered a brand new electric car. But we are leasing it. Never done that before but it was a good deal. £284 a month and we will be saving £250 on diesel.
And our workplaces are getting charge points so we can charge there.

we have a 2nd hand VW golf plugin hybrid which was around £20K. we can use electric only for any local journeys (20miles or so) and the petrol mode is v efficient too.

I'd recommend that rather than a fully electric car at the moment. even though we can charge at home, I think the electric points are not reliable enough to do 100% electric. unfortunately.

@Shade17 nope it's a Jaguar iPace - it was on a deal, so you could have black or black and only one spec package available but it's a hell of a lot of car for the money. Unfortunately because the deal was so good the car park has a row of identical black Ipaces.

@wonkylegs that’s insane, unbelievably cheap. As a 45% tax payer the cheapest ipace on my scheme works out at £600/mth. It’s still a mid range EV mind but crazy cheap.