[XAP]Bob wrote: ↑30 Mar 2023, 12:43pm
"I don't believe cars are the answer"
Whilst there will always be a small proportion of people for whom a car is the most suitable, rather than just the most convenient, means of transport... you're right, in the vast majority of cases they aren't the correct answer - but at the moment they're what is being chosen, and BEVs offer a substantial reduction in harm both to the global environment and more particularly to those in their immediate vicinity.
I agree but at risk of repeating myself,they don't work for me and compared to ICEV are far too expensive for me.
If your complaint is that there aren't enough chargers... well there are hundreds of millions of charge points all over the country... every three pin socket you see is a charge point.
The average UK car does 20 miles a day, thats about 5kWh of electrons, or under two hours plugged into the slowest charger versions we have - it's only 3.5 hours at the slowest rate the Type2 standard supports.
I know - you were complaining about the lack of DC charge points. There are nearly five thousand rapid charge locations - and well over thirty thousand AC chargers, which is encouraging, particularly since the majority of people very rarely need to use public charging.
Which can work for a lot of people,I've no argument with that if DC chargers are available but they aren't always,but I'm arguing from a personal POV,my motoring is double the average and when the car is in use it'll be between 200 and 300miles in a day,the shortest use it does is a once a week supermarket trip but mainly it's days out plus caravan towing duties.
BTW my car never goes into a city and only ever goes into a town when absolutely necessary which isn't very often.
Having recently filled a car up with fossil fuels I was reminded just how unpleasant an experience it is - and people think nothing of it, and won't hear the process criticised because it's what they've internalised as "normal".
Sorry but I have to disagree with you there,filling my car up with diesel isn't an unpleasant experience,it's not smelly and the fuel stations I use certainly aren't dirty.
As I've posted before and
stress again,if a BEV worked for me and the price to buy was reasonable I'd most likely buy one.As things stand and I feel will do for the forseeable future as they're too costly to buy,won't have the range,won't tow my caravan,and I strongly suspect if a BEV did meet my criteria after 150k miles of use from new it'd most likely debatably be worthless other than for scrap.
Just to put things into perspective I'm currently driving a Ford Smax 2ltr TDCi bought for £6k with 55k miles on,now after three years use has 94k miles on and I'm expecting it to do at least another 60k miles/5years without the need for major work other than servicing .
Environmental arguments apart stacked up against any BEV with even a £12k price tag and there's just no contest for me.
That's my standpoint against me owning a BEV,what works for you doesn't for me and a whole shed load of other people.