Used electric cars are safer to buy than second-hand petrol or diesel models

The BMW iX was one of three BMWs and four other cars to report zero faults on all the used examples checked in the survey - (BMW)

Electric vehicles have been revealed as the safest used car buys, with far fewer faults found by a leading car inspection firm.

Analysis on 240,000 pre-purchase vehicle inspections from ClickMechanic shows that a “poor” rating was applied to just 1.51 per cent of the 7,365 electric cars in the survey, while 7.48 per cent of all petrol and diesel models checked were rated as poor. Luxury SUVs were apparently particularly problematic.