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Afraid not, I already know it will be a black transit size van. My disposal is already set up. When I die the body will be picked up and taken to any crematorium of the company's choice. I've never wanted a funeral or service since they are irrational. .

I've never considered myself a lucky person, but where running out of fuel is concerned, I'm the luckiest person on earth. A few years into my earlier driving my car engine spluttered and stopped as I was driving and a glance down at the fuel gauge showed I'd run out. I turned the steering...

I'm guessing that complexity comes into it. To make pedelec use legal requires adopting the 1983 EAPC regulation, as amended 2015, plus adopting the two and three wheel motor vehicle type approval legislation, since this contains the exemption for pedelecs not being considered motor vehicles...

Ditto, and I may well beat you to it, since I'm in my 84th year. I bought my new Leaf in 2018, fully expecting it to be my last car. I knew back then that waiting three years would give a far larger choice of e-cars, but my time to enjoy owning one was fast running out! .

I think we'll cope on the e-car provision of current, the time scales match nicely. Initially at present the takeup is slow due to production limitations failing to meet demand. Once we meet the 20 year point from now when the sale of ic cars is due to be banned, e-cars will probably have...

But don't forget the overnight charging of e-cars that I mentioned on this link. That's done when the the grid is very quiet. .

The Nissan NV200 e-van was converted to use exactly what my new Leaf car has. Same drive system and battery, hence the big leap in range and performance, 40% more power and a similar gain in range. Bringing out an NV200 Sport using what's in the limited edition Leaf e-plus would be fun. 100%...

All very true, and another very big factor is the overnight charging of e-cars when grid consumption is low. All these e-cars have charge timers and owners naturally set them to off peak rate times for the large savings. .

These have already happened in London, from once having the highest rate of car ownership in ths UK, it's now the lowest, and the young particularly don't want to own a car. Several factors have brought this about: The congestion charge for entering the central area, now £11.50. A huge...

I don't think that can easily happen, the snag being that they can be charged from a home 13 amp point. Indeed I do half my charging that way to give the battery the easiest possible life. Obviously home owners couldn't accept or even afford such a massive increase in electricity prices, just...

And by then it could well be viable for all your use, such is the pace of progress. It's been like the earlier computing days, buy one this year and next year it's out of date. .

I don't, my car from 2018 can't use their full rate. In general though public chargers cost far more than charging at home, about double or a bit over at standard rate electricity prices. For most of us doing only some long trips that doesn't matter and it's still far cheaper than petrol or...

I bet there are already, and there's plenty of options. Driving an e-car brings a different mindset. Where on petrol or diesel we typically drive until going low and then fill, with e-cars we will commonly do a quick top up at an interim stage of the journey if there's any hint of marginality...

I don't suffer anything like that, despite my car being stuffed with electronic features. On the odd couple of occasions I've left mine unused for a week, it hasn't lost anything noticeable. The worst car battery drain I've ever suffered was on the original Nissan Qashqai petrol model. Three...

Indeed, that's absolutely right gw8izr. I'm sure that's what is behind the government's wish to urgently upgrade home insulation standards, not that this will be sufficient to make up the shortfall. And of course what was behind the urgent push to smart meters, in the vain hope that would...

With many of the new generation of e-cars commonly offering a genuine 220 mile range and with a few at from 300 to even 500 miles, you'd have no problem. As I posted, like many e-car owners I charge at approaching half empty, which on a 220 mile car means you have your 100 miles plus in the...

I can sympathise, when I first move to my present location we had power cuts with depressing regularity due to an infrastructure problem. A couple lasted over 24 hours. Certainly to own an e-car you need a reliable supply or if an unreliable one, a nearby rapid charger on a better supply...

I can't understand why you'd want that. You'd have your home charger, plus the 13 amp accessory one that comes with the car. I do have a number of chargers a few miles away around me, but have never needed to use one of them. Bear in mind that even when the car signals the emergency "charge...

You seem desperate to put the boot in, looking for every downside! I don't know what it is about e-cars that prompts all the opposition, but being anti is a failed cause. They are happening no matter the opposition There's always bound to be the odd charge point lost to development and many...

Bre xit is very unlikely to affect this, unless we totally crash out and stop all EU trading. Then we'd have far more to worry about than e-bikes, putting enough food in our mouths for starters! Any sort of trade deal with the EU is totally dependent on us maintaining all EU transport law...