...... but nobody has a petrol station in their garden.....The beauty of EVs is that they can, potentially, be charged anywhere there’s an outlet; and they don’t rely on the huge amount of behind the scenes infrastructure that’s required to freight diesel and petrol around .......
Hi Glen,
You`ll have guessed I`m not in your camp on this one, but fair play, it`s worked for you.
The reason we don`t need a petrol station in the garden is because for the great majority of us, finding one is very easy and quick.
And when I get there, the probability is I won`t have to queue, the pump will work, I know I won`t have to download an App before I can pay, (as did that BBC presenter) and by using Pay at Pump, I`ll be
fully charged & out of there in about 5 minutes.
Your point about the huge amount of infrastructure to get fossil fuel to garages is sound. But you're forgetting, just like the wheel, it is already there, not so ev chargers.
Driving anything other than locally and looking for an ev charger reminds me of running a Disco V8 LPG and hoping to find an outlet without having to go miles out of my way, very stressful.
But it`s about much more than all the faffing about, my real concern is the environmental damage caused by lithium mining and all the associated costs of handling & disposing of old toxic batteries.
And lets not fool ourselves, this is never going to be a long term solution, science technology will develop much better fuels. And for those of us old enough to remember, VHS beat Betamax to the market even though Betamax was widely acknowledged to be the better product, but VHS didn`t last
And when that day comes we will have spent billions of public £ and effort just to make a substandard product work.
Eyes need opening because we are all being pushed in one direction, (remember when they encouraged us to use Diesel) why else would they be using public money to subsidise the costs of these vehicles? A subsidy that one day, will have to be paid for - effectively you`re paying for your own discount
And the reason, essentially it`s all about meeting a political target
I need a nap