Originally Posted by PeterG
The argument regarding terrace housing is nonsense, you don't currently have a petrol pump so why would you have a charger. There is a compromise with EV it takes a bit longer to fill up and you have to get used to that if you want one.


I think when all EV's have a comparable range and charging network of the Tesla, you're absolutely correct. Pop out and charge somewere for 30 mins a week, and get 350+ hassle free miles. It's what I do with my car (albeit in takes a couple of minutes, so I do it on the way to work once ever 7 days).

However, if you have one of the more affordable EV's with a sub 100 mile range and no fastcharging it would currently be a right ballache to try and fnd a charge every day. One of the reasons I stopped commuting on the bike was having to refill every two days

However, as Guy said, in a couple of years there'll possibly be the infrastructure in place - work carparks will have chargers (we have three carparks at work, and zero chargers), public carparks will have chargers (hopefully with 'short stay' regulations to prevent them being blocked all day), and there'll be the equivalent of Petrol stations with huge banks of chargers (currently if I'm third in line for a petrol pump, Im still done in under 10 minutes - if I've got to wait for each to have a 30 minute charge, thats a big chunk of time gone).

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