Oldjohnw wrote: ↑30 Jul 2021, 4:48pm
Basically, I don’t think we want every ICE vehicle replaced by an EV. As long as I am not one of those who have to give up my car!
I think I'd happily give up my car if there was a viable car share scheme here. I'd walk or take the folding bike to a car pick-up point, tap the keycard to open the car, put the bike in boot and use the car as needed. But I don't live in a city and I don't want to set up a car share scheme myself, though.
Why do we still have a car? It's not for real emergencies because there are blue light vehicles for those, which will go electric when the time is right. It's not even for moving large purchases, with the rise of delivery services and "man with a car/van" services over the last year. It's for all those complicated medium/long-distance journeys ill-served by mass transport (which stops before 6pm here) and it's to avoid dealing with the car hire chains who have been awful in various ways about half the times I've had to use them over the year (I know some here report better experiences).
Would I hire an electric car? Probably. Can I hire one? It looks like Enterprise hire them out in the UK, but only Teslas (which I suspect are expensive) and not in my town. While Sixt hire them out in other countries but not the UK.
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