Originally Posted by nick w
Originally Posted by PeterG
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VW ID3 Pure 150ps 5 door £205 per month
Tesla Model 3 STD £402 per month

BMW 128ti £235 per month
Vauxhall Insignia 1.5 Diesel £299 per month

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.


Whatever size charging stations are you envisioning? When you think that everyone ahead of you in the queue is going to be at least 20/30 minutes. Can you imagine how long the queues will be? Unless the charging station is the size of a Heathrow car park..and where is that real estate going to come from in Fulham and Wandsworth and Hackney...or anywhere where the housing is dense?

Nick


The vast majority of new EV owners are in the lucky position to have a driveway at least and come out each morning to a fully charged vehicle these owners only need to top up on longer journeys. Ten minutes or so and they depart, thats what happens with the Tesla we have at work. If you fill up at the average garage /shop its around ten minutes or more if you get someone in front of you doing their weekly shop...The change over to EV isn't going happen overnight and in the meantime battery technology along with charging times are being reduced.

The problem as you say is regarding housing with no parking facilities. Not sure about car ownership in London, put it this way they must hide their cars because any housing estate I visit at work there are very few vehicles let alone anywhere to park one and have you tried getting through London in a car lately, Park Lane used to be three lanes now down to one, Embankment almost all down to one lane. At this rate London will be a pedestrian zone in 30 years time. Near me they are building 4 bed houses with no garage and no drive. The builder quotes AI vehicles will be used in the near future so no need for a personal vehicle. Nothing to do with squeezing an extra house in here and there.

Until the infrastructure and battery technology has improved there will ultimately be a queue.