As If Motorists Are Not Already Angry Enough.....charger Rage!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/electric-car-row-marshals-charge-rage

Another reason why I won't be getting a lecky jam jar any time soon.

[douglas9401]

Shocking.

[naomi24]

Nor me.  Neither cars nor facilities are good enough to even consider it at the moment.

[1ozzy]

Electrifying!!

[ToraToraTora]

The infrastructure seems to be static!

[1ozzy]

Can't find any positives here

[Zacs-Master]

We've been running 2 fully electric EVs for 2.5 years with no issues. There was one occasion where a charger didn't work but, having planned the journey, it wasn't a vital one. I think you can put some of the 'rage' down to people simply not planning their journeys. 

[Old_Geezer]

One shouldn't need to plan that much. It indicates the new system being enforced is a poor one. (And that doesn't even consider the problems with accidents and battery fires etc..)

It's a case of jumping on the global bandwagon to be seen to be doing something to combat global warming, but not yet having found a reasonable solution. Besides, changing domestic travel isn't going to make a vast improvement, so rushing into a bad decision isn't wise.

[Zacs-Master]

We didn't see it as a bad decision at all, and still don't. You have to plan, even with an ICE powered vehicle. You just have to do a bit more of it with an EV. Ask yourself seriously, when do you do more than 230 miles (around the average range of most EVs now) in one go?

[ToraToraTora]

I'd happily get in the Jaaag and drive to Edinburgh right now, confident that there'd be no problem filling up with petrol. I would not attempt than journey with an electric car. The infrastructure just isn't there. Electric is fine for a few 10s of miles to places where you can get there and home on a charge. I just don't want to have to have a bun fight over chargers in the services etc.

[Zacs-Master]

Never had of seen a bun fight. The infrastructure is there, if you do a bit of research. Tora, you could drive to Oxford and back from Brighton on a single charge. 

[retrocop]

I can see a time when wind farms and solar power will not be sufficient to supply leccy to the National Grid when thousands more charging points are to be installed. We need proper power stations not gimmicks to ensure EVs are a viable proposition. I fill up when and where I need to and not be advised the best time to do it.

[Zacs-Master]

I'm surprised at you being influenced by the media, especially the dimly lit recesses of GB News. 

[Zacs-Master]

There's an awful lot of ignorant predjudice being expressed here. 

[ToraToraTora]

ZM you are defending what you do I get that but there are a 1000 horror stories out there. Like get to the services nearly dead and discover all the chargers are in use, wait hours for your turn, no queing system, someone pushes in when you are not looking. Hand on heart tell me you have never been stranded? It takes hours to top up with Elecetricity, 2 minutes for ICE fuel. The infracstructure ain't there and even when it is we won't have anything like the power generation capicty. Gawd we still struggle with half time in Corrie!

[Zacs-Master]

Hand on heart, I have never been stranded. 
 

'Like get to the services nearly dead and discover all the chargers are in use'

That just comes down to poor planning again. 
 

Hand on heart, tell me how many times a year you do journeys of more than 230 miles in one go?

[Zacs-Master]

Anyway, I'm off out for a bit. Happy discussing but FGS don't be taken in by the media, especially bleedin' GB News. 

[naomi24]

I agree with TTT.  We do quite a lot of long journeys.  I would hate to have to hang around waiting for the car to be fit for purpose again.  Not for me.

[vulcan42]

How do you plan not to arrive at a charging station when all the chargers are in use?

[nicebloke1]

Progress of any kind will always have hurdles to overcome, and there will always be resistance to that progress. Had progress not taken place in the form of transport, the streets of London would still be two feet high in horse manure. The customers buying electric cars today are assisting in that progress.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM: "That just comes down to poor planning again. " - but that's the point, I don't want to have to plan my journey to such an extent. No one driving an ICE car every says right I'm going to fill up at X garage, we just drive along and fill up as required and it takes a few minutes, not hours.