In the upcoming summer (if we get one) there may be a problem when people all head out onto the roads in their EVs & all try to use the chargers at the same time, resulting in long queues. Please don’t lose hope with EVs when this occurs, because this will likely be an exceptional summer where people who would usually go abroad will stay in the UK, & many of these people have been buying EVs.
Other than that, 4000 rapid chargers & counting now in the UK, yes mainly in the south-east, but expanding rapidly elsewhere. How many of them are wheelchair friends is anyone’s guess.
Recently PlugShare appeared on Apple Carplay, everyone celebrated this momentous event, but then PlugShare was pulled from Carplay & hasn’t yet reappeared. ABRP is now on Carplay, this is a wonderful addition although there’s the subscription cost of nearly £50 a year to consider so the full version will only appeal to those of us who will make a lot of use of it, the rest will be using the 1 month free introductory offer (when we can go for a long drive again) that can be found in certain EV forums. Expect other third party charger location & navigation programs to appear.
Motability has no choice but to make sensible EVs available to under 25s, but currently it bases these things on insurance groups & EVs have been seen as risky because one once went on fire somewhere (along with the thousands of burning Vauxhall Zafiras). Keep pushing for decent EVs for under 25s, the Leaf, Zoe, the MGs, Corsa-e et al, ahould all be contenders, they may accelerate to 30mph very quickly indeed, but at higher speeds not so much as they’re heavy & speed limited. The Hyundai Kona 39kW may make it too but the Kona 64kW has over 200HP. Don’t expect the Tesla anytime soon.