February Magazine - Nick Lomas EVs

Brue, you embraced the technology & have proved the place for it is here & now. I too will be following suit when I no longer need a work horse of a vehicle. Some folk look at the future with jaundiced eyes & refuse to accept change. It is however coming. There are Trucks already in the pipeline👍🏻

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Very few of us have immediate access to conventional fuel so it's unlikely that access to a charge will be a major problem.

Eventually that might be true. At present it is not

At the present time EVs are unable to meet my personal requirements. A main reason is that there are little available charging locations in my area.

I was talking about the future, at present EV ownership is limited by general viability and costs. Even if everyone had charging access I doubt that EVs would be the purchase choice at the moment. 

This old very much envies the young, I’d love to be around in 50 years time the technological landscape will be amazing. You will be allowed to drag your white box around. The ICE vehicles are not being outlawed to use in 14 years time but will no longer be available to buy. What we drive now will be the classic cars of the future👍🏻

ET, it is your choice👍🏻. It isn’t about right or wrong it’s about choice. I love the idea of EV’s but right now they too are not for me. I support the move away from the ICE wholeheartedly. One thing is guaranteed-it’s coming, the death of the ICE vehicle is unstoppable just like the ICE replaced the Horse in the early 20th century.

Certainly my next car will be hybrid, with about 30 miles plus on one charge and which will do for the daily/weekly run-around but petrol still there for longer journeys. Thee are EV out there now claiming 80 miles plus on one charge.

I can certainly install a charging unit on my house and for those that can't I would think that petrol stations will become power/charging stations. Technology will move forward so quick easy charging will take the same time as it does now? 

Just changed my mobile a while back, it has a new USB (3 is it) socket and the higher power charger it came with charges it up to 100% in less than an hour. On the old one it took a few hours. Also the battery is more powerful for the same space and far longer. Just one example of what can be done.

It is not the availability of EVs that is the problem as many  companies are developing models, although some, when tested in the real world  independent  tests did not live up to the manufacturers marketing depts miles per charge?

It is the lack of infrastructure that is the problem  it seems as noted in last nights TV programme ,that LAs when questioned have far more important things to cope with on. their finances ,  even with the  gov grants that could go some way help with the set up of charging points 

As posted before,  the costs of getting really viable infrastructure would make what the pandemic has cost  so far,  be minor

And as the emails that both cyber and I received yesterday , apart from the criminal side , seems with other parts ,a way of road pricing that could overcome   more costly methods ,

HMG will very soon be introducing other methods of getting  more from motorists to fill the Black hole left from lack of vat and fuel duty , the treasury must be rubbing their hands even now as the cost of oil goes higher 

But it is far easier   to spend five minutes to fill  an ICE vehicle that will probably do at least 400miles solo  before  the next five minute  stop or not much longer if pumps are busy, that at least on a very High  charge rate 15 minutes for an EV to travel 200miles then another 15minute min wait if points are busy

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