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Once again you are not looking at the whole picture. Charge points are going in at a huge rate at all manner of places, supermarkets, gyms, health centres, cinemas, coffee shops, drive through burger joints etc. Even many work places are providing them. Increasingly in the future, charging...

Like so many you are already far behind on what has happening. Ubitricity alone have already provided over 6000 lamp post charge points in London so far. They are going in elswhere too, where they are needed. No point in installing them where most have drives and can have cheap home...

The Tories are onto a loser with those attitudes in Greater London. Even in the outskirts where I live that is true. Historically Croydon was a firmly Tory part of Surrey, but resentfully became part of the Greater London. Over the years since the bulk of it, Croydon Central, changed to...

It's total BS Zlatan. Point by Point: 1) 84% of e-car owners have a fast home charger. They charge at home overnight since that is by far the cheapest way. 80% of ALL existing e-car charging is done that way. 2) Overnight this country and all others in Europe's network have so much surplus...

Scare story. I just entered Carmarthen to Birmingham into my Zap map account and the suggested route had 45 Rapid chargers along it. A driving break for a ten minute cuppa with the C4's 100kW rapid charge rate ensures no chance of range anxiety. Range anxiety is mainly something only ic car...

Not so. If you read in depth the link I provided you would have seen it refers to motorised vehicle use, which of course includes public transport. That isn't a cycling gain and I've made the same point in my following post above. Yes, the Dutch do infinitely more cycling than us, but as...

Sort of, in the sense of ours being a car culture, but more a historical problem. Go back to 1950 and The Netherlands and Britain both cycled at the same rate, 50% of the population. The rush hour road outside where I worked then looked like any Netherlands city now, hordes of cyclists passing...

Indeed, in comparison Britain is rubbish at creating cycling infrastructure. But let's not get carried away by the Dutch propaganda, there is another way of looking at it. They say 70% own a bicycle and 48% cycle daily. Fine, now lets turn that around. It means 32% never cycle at all, almost...

Indeed true, but they do have one enormous natural advantage. Their country is very flat. And the continent's number two cycling country is Denmark, also flat as a pancake. Trying to do that with anything like the same success where it's hilly is a different matter entirely. .

All true, but GM decided they couldn't make a profit on the EV1 so what happened was inevitable as they put their shareholders first. That the Renault, Nissan, Mitisubishi alliance were first with e-cars was entirely due to the genius of their boss, Carlos Ghosn, having the right vision. But...

We are in agreement with lots of this, but I still think the industry took the right course in the 1980s and '90s. What would have been the point of making lots of lead acid cars only for them to be scrapped after a single generation. The public weren't crying out for e-cars and nor were...

There was a very early lead acid batteried e-car, the Indian designed G-Whizz. I tried one on a test drive and later cadged a ride in a more hilly area with an owner. The public just didn't want it, not surprising given how well it imitated a milk float on hills, annoying all other drivers. I...

I'd prefer a Toyota Mirai over a Tesla S, especially now the prices are similar. Just a pity so few places to refill, but with 350 to 400 miles range could be ok. .

Nobody does 100 mile a day Soundwave, that's 36,500 miles a year!! It's not far off physically impossible for one individual in an e-car anyway, due to the limitations of range, performance and charge times. Intermittent 100 miles a day would be no problem for a Leaf or Zoe battery using a...

Could be much sooner than 6 to 8 years Neal. The ratio of battery capacity to usage could mean a much shorter life, since with the maximum speed of 28 mph it will be driven flat out much of it's life. Very unlike most e-car usage. It's not a Citroen design, the Capgemini oufit designed it...

This lack of understanding is what happens when a subject isn't closely followed. The fall that Radio 4 and others have commented on follows the ridiculous huge rise in prices of s/h e-cars resulting from severe shortages of new e-cars. I can illustrate this using my own 2018 Nissan Leaf with...

I was well aware of these and how superior they were, being why I always wanted an e-car, even long before they existed during my lifetime. What I did miss out was my intention to type "modern" production e-cars so not making that clear in my post. I disagree. As my post that you were...

A bit tight, but at just two thirds of the national average car mileage (7,300) it may just be possible. With a very rare short boost from a public charger during the dullest winter months, definitely viable. Forget garage parking though! ;) N.B. Post crossed with Matthew's. .

Grossly exaggerated, as usual with such articles, plus very much Tesla biased. Strange how so many are so completely wrong about Tesla's importance and relevance. They often think, for example, that Tesla were first with modern e-cars. Wrong, here's a time line for production models first on...

Though his dates are very premature, that politician is absolutely right. Both car ownership and use will be much more expensive and restricted in future, a process that has started already. ,