Electric cars

Lavinda Past said:
Not envy, I'm just cynical. Electric cars are a rip off and imo fools are being parted with money, as usual.
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Anyone is entitled to dislike or even loathe electric cars but to label their owners fools, when the alternative is to spend loads of money continuously filling a car with a liquid that gets burned and passed through an exhaust, is a little bit rich if I’m honest.
 
bluethrunthru said:
It means I "recharge" with diesel once a fortnight or perhaps more - I gain much more of my precious time - ie life - not charging my car with electricity. The car is already 9 years old - I'd probably be on my second set of batteries by now and they ain't cheap.

That is such a misleading statement. How many people can charge overnight? There are so many barriers to being able to do that. On C4News this week charging an EV was nearly as costly as filling a petrol car at current prices. If you are lucky enough to have the infrastructure at home to have a charge point installed its still £3.5K to put one in. I don't need a diesel pump and all the associated paraphernalia at home - I have 3 filling stations within 5 minutes of where I live.

EV's and the current infrastructure are just not the answer.
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For someone who doesn't have an electric car you post in this thread far too much. Did an electric car bully you at school or something?

I drive regularly from London to Manchester and it costs me about £6 per leg. How much is it in petrol? I don't know but I assume it's about £40-50 each leg these days? Anyway it's absolute bollocks that electric costs the same amount as petrol.

I charge my car overnight, I imagine a lot of people do, especially those that don't live in the city. No idea what the infrastructure is like outside of London but they are built into the street lights here - I see more charging points than electric cars (and I'm not joking).

It takes about 20 minutes to fully charge my car at a fast charger. Time for a coffee, piss and you're on your way. Is that seriously a problem? My car does about 220 miles and I generally use it as a city runaround so probably only charge it as often as you fill up your diesel tank.

Now I'm glad you have time on your hands thanks to your diesel car only eating up 2 minutes of your time but I've seen you post in other threads and I'm pretty sure you're environmentally conscious so is a bit of your time not worth giving up to pollute the planet a little less?
 
markbmcfc said:
Anyone is entitled to dislike or even loathe electric cars but to label their owners fools, when the alternative is to spend loads of money continuously filling a car with a liquid that gets burned and passed through an exhaust, is a little bit rich if I’m honest.
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Betamax. 8 Track cassettes. Electric cars.
Mark my words.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Or you can spend £5k on a car.
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You could yes. But the point is you wouldn't compare a second hand Ford Fiesta to a brand new Audi would you? So when people say electric cars are too expensive... I understand that point to a degree (because they don't have cheap options) but you have to compare apples to apples. Now I went electric for many reasons but for the petrol heads out there I invite you to test drive a Tesla and compare it to a similarly priced petrol car. Personally I find it beats most.
 
bugsyblue said:
For someone who doesn't have an electric car you post in this thread far too much. Did an electric car bully you at school or something?

I drive regularly from London to Manchester and it costs me about £6 per leg. How much is it in petrol? I don't know but I assume it's about £40-50 each leg these days? Anyway it's absolute bollocks that electric costs the same amount as petrol.

I charge my car overnight, I imagine a lot of people do, especially those that don't live in the city. No idea what the infrastructure is like outside of London but they are built into the street lights here - I see more charging points than electric cars (and I'm not joking).

It takes about 20 minutes to fully charge my car at a fast charger. Time for a coffee, piss and you're on your way. Is that seriously a problem? My car does about 220 miles and I generally use it as a city runaround so probably only charge it as often as you fill up your diesel tank.

Now I'm glad you have time on your hands thanks to your diesel car only eating up 2 minutes of your time but I've seen you post in other threads and I'm pretty sure you're environmentally conscious so is a bit of your time not worth giving up to pollute the planet a little less?
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For me its about the fact that ev's and the infrastructure are not the answer. I don't like people being lied to. If you watched the C5 EV cars show last night the cheapest one was £46k and had a 125 mile range. So many flats have been built in recent years - they have no prospect of home charging. Brother-in-law works for a firm as a rep who went EV - they are withdrawing the option as all its done has led to unproductive time as they sit around charging and there are many complaints from clients about missed / late appointments.
When I went on holiday a month ago I drove 320 miles from here to Bournemouth (another reason ) when you stop at motorway services there is parking for what? A hundred or so cars and about a dozen charge points. How does that work?
Outside London provision is crap. I live in a town that has added 7 new housing developments in the last 5 years and there are still only 3 public charge points. During the pandemic it was one as the council built the testing centre in a car park in such a way that it blocked access to the two there.
Nice you have them in street lights - currently our council has disabled every other street light to save money. I assume no light means no power to the lamp post?
I drop my daughter off in a car park in Middlesbrough where about 4 months ago they installed 10 charge points - they are still unbranded and are not connected to the grid.
For you if you live in London and do the motoring thats available there I am sure its good but sorry most areas of the UK where people live are not like that hence I say the current batch of EV's for loads of reasons and the charging network for the obvious reasons are just not viable.
 
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