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Give it a chance! The doubling year on year of e-car sales is only since 2018. Anyway if you bought an e-car you'd use your home charger running at cheap night rate electricity prices, you wouldn't be using local dearer chargers. They are for people who live far away and visit your area. In...

See my reply on this link. .

Nothing at all. Our government like all governments is very keen to increase cycling for environmental and health reasons and won't do anything whatsover to harm it in any way. This whole income discussion is a silly nonsense. The only reason N.I. e-bikes ended up as motor cycle classified...

Indeed, and the naming is going to have to change a few times anyway, such is the speed of change in this charging field. The two newly installed 50 kW/h Rapid chargers I used in Dorset in late September were up converted to Ultra-Rapid 125 kW/h in December. They'd probably charged hardly...

Still peanuts, especially the MOT operation which only compares with garage normal charges for repair work. And once again, the government doesn't get the CBT income which in any case is a one off for each rider. I repeat, there is no worthwhile income outside of your imagination. How many...

Peanuts, two are on offs and the government don't get the MOT income, it's a cost for them sending out the reminders, as is sending out the reminders to re-enter the VED details each year with no "re-taxing" income. The admin of all this would probably cost more than the government's annual...

There is no income, e-vehicles VED (road tax licence) is free of charge. .

I've received the same reply. .

Early days, even the simple takes time in politics. We mustn't prejudge, he may have had our emails in mind when he mentioned cycling then, but he'll need time to find out what it's all about. .

I've already posted some while ago that this was NOT a Leaf traction battery fire and the traction battery was never involved in it. Sadly it keeps getting reposted by those not realising it's just the usual kind of car battery electric fire, and it was just the one anyway. It was an under...

The extra battery would be vulnerable , since only the rear of the car like the boot is viable option for adding it. The safety factor is very important on such as 400 volt high capacity systems. But as you say yourself, chargers are the answer with ultra rapid ones adding 125 miles in 15...

An easily swappable battery scheme was tried and failed. I think the most sensible way for an almost all short run person is to buy a small battery model and hire a long range one for the odd rare occasion when needed. .

Old information, despite them saying 2019. They are quoting the old Leaf at 17% less than 150 mile range (124 miles). Since December 2017 the current model has a genuine 168 mile range, the limited edition e-plus Leaf 230 miles. The e-Golf suffers from being a conversion of an ic design...

Outside of Tesla, who as I've posted have been less than responsible in their battery and safety policies, this is not a problem. Petrol cars are far more at fuel fire risk following electrical faults starting fires, the motorway people deal with them regularly but have never had to deal with...

But for virtually all e-car owners it's not relevant. Most rarely use anything like all the available battery capacity in their normal use, and as the article says, the cars have plenty of protected reserve that's not available, so they can't empty them. And as I said, e-cars don't use the...

When you mentioned I think 160 k nearly two years ago I followed it up, but on one Fleet News link I found that 150k was what their five Leafs had done together, most more recently bought. Another link from Fleet News says 174k for the original one, but also says they have a dozen Leafs...

Far more than double, it's 125 miles, 220 miles and 320 miles for the three prices on their new ID.3 model, which will replace the e-Golf. This is a sensible policy a number are following now, since many people never do long runs. Some only ever drive very locally so are never far from their...

That needs the local authorities to give them a boost. In London we've now got the odd areas where no ic van deliveries are allowed, thus pushingcompanies to buy e-vans. .

Even an early humble Nissan Leaf with it's five year warrantied small battery has run for a Cornish taxi company for some 70,000 miles and about eight years now on the original battery. They claim it still has full capacity. They tried that Leaf as an experiment, but now have a fleet of five...

Not an entirely good article, they've missed out an important factor, that almost all e-car cells are large and low density, greatly reducing stress in all circumstances. Tesla's original roadster had high density cells so did suffer, but no others have made that mistake. The article ended on...