An EV owners perspective...
1) Range limited by battery capacity and driving conditions - ----- So is an ICE Car. Most EVs now offer a realistic range of 250 to 300 miles.
2) Range anxiety for the driver brought about by fear of running out before reaching the next available charging point. - ------ Same with an ICE Car.
3) If you have to rely on parking in the street and possibly not always outside your own house, how to you do at-home charging? - ------ Charge at work, at a commercial charging point or on a lamp post charger.
4) If you live in a block of flats the same applies as in 3 above. - ----- Same answer
5) Time to take on adequate recharge is excessive - ------ Rubbish. My experience is that charging from 50% to 90% at home takes about 4 hours, at night. At a Tesla Supercharger charging from 6% to 90% takes 45 mins and costs about £20.00
6) The existing underground cabling is not capable of handling the increased demand created by mass electric car charging. - ------ Rubbish, as previously explained.
7) The environmental issues around the disposal of batteries at the end on their life and the cost of replacements - ------- Rubbish, very few EV batteries have reached their end of life: Tesla guarantee the battery for 8 years and when replaced they refurbish and use in their domestic "Power Walls".
8)The carbon footprint produced when building an electric car is apparently greater than when building an IC engined car. - ---- not proven and probably rubbish, as previously explained.
Although I own an EV and enjoy driving it I'm not convinced that EVs are the future, or that they are not. I used to believe that hydrogen was the better option, but I no longer hold this view.
A very large amount of money is going into developing Green Petrol, made synthetically from water and atmospheric carbon dioxide and green electricity. Latest estimates are that this will be commercially viable at no more than the cost of fossil gasoline.
Green Gasoline means that the specialist car market has a bright future, from Morgans to F1 and not forgetting light aircraft.
I'll keep the Tesla for 3 to 4 years and see what makes sense.
I'll keep the Plus 8 come hell or high water.
Blimey Peter….it was only a few weeks ago you were at Williams wanting to know price to change for a Plus Four 🙄🤣😂
