Charging Points For Electric Cars

naomi24 | 10:12 Sun 23rd Jun 2024 | Motoring

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In a local village there's a terrace of small houses with a pavement between them and the road. One of the occupants has an electric car plugged into a charger on the wall of his house and he's put one of those black and yellow box strips over the wire across the pavement to tell pedestrians it's there. It's most definitely a hazard and I'm not entirely sure he would have been given permission to do it. So what's going to happen when we're all forced into electric cars? I'm okay - I have a detached house with plenty of parking space but what about people like him in terraced houses with only the road to park on, or people in flats in tower blocks with little or no parking? I don't think this rush towards electric cars has really been thought through at all.

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andy-hughes

Of course this issue has not been thought through.

It is being driven (sorry!) by government ministers who all enjoy chauffeur driven cars, and at home they have detached houses with driveways, and salaries that will allow them to buy.

When, and it will come, but not in my lfetime, batteries are AA size and last five years, people will consider investing, but until then, this is a bandwaggon that people are jumping on, although the steady decline in sales shows that the honeymoon is now over.

Hopkirk

You're probably right TTT. We'll be like Cuba, keeping decades old vehicles on the road.

Khandro

There is a vehicle that can do 30 miles on 15 pounds of hay, it's called a horse & I think we may be going back to them. 😉

ToraToraTora

16:59 not just us, the whole petrol head world!

ToraToraTora

I think the only viable way is both. Electric vehicles with a small on board engine that just charges the batteries. That way they they can go when there is no charger availability. There are some out there already.

davebro3

//Electric vehicles with a small on board engine that just charges the batteries.//

Isn't that the new Nissan Qashqais ?

Hopkirk

Allowing hybrids of any sort defeats the object of the exercise.

Hopkirk

If TTT is right and people will keep their petrol and diesel cars going, I guess the authorities will massively increase fuel duties.

davebro3

//I guess the authorities will massively increase fuel duties.//

Do bears poo in the woods?

ToraToraTora

17:21, perhaps but the object of the execise is not feasible. People are realising that hence the sales of electric vehicles are declining. Eventually governments will come to know what the people already know.

dave50

Socialists hate people owning their own cars, however they are powered. Their dream is for everyone to have to use public transport at all times or ideally never to venture more than a couple of miles from where they live.