"If the car is kept for several years the overall costs of ownership are way cheaper than ice cars as there’s no engine, exhaust, cat, radiator or other components to need replacing". Dont many if not all EVs have liquid cooling of the battery & thus a radiator? Not that radiators need replacing very often, last time was over 40 years ago. Presumably EVs have electric cabin heating & also use heat from the radiator.
I'm aware of Zapmap showing charging places. Today checking the nearest places to me one has all points working & status updated yesterday. Another has all 7 chargers out of action & reported a week ago. All 3 of other sites have not had status updated for 2 months. Does not give me high confidence I could charge on a journey.
Autocar mag did a report on several EVs taking the same long journey with several charging stops needed & they came across non functioning chargers. Worse the Audi built in guidance sent them to a non existent charge point. The Telsa got there first but a conventional car may have not needed any refuelling. Still many dots to join up in the charging regime for anyone making other than non local journeys.
