Thanks for the article wmcforum. So it seems the only option is to use a recovery vehicle to take the car to a charging point. I recognise you’d need to be very negligent to let the battery run out, but I suppose the same goes for people to run out of petrol and they do. The consequences though are very different.
My point was led by the comment about holidaymakers and if increasing numbers of the population with EVs drive to the coast they’ll find the charging situation very different here to say London or Birmingham where many of our visitors come from. And casting caution to the wind seems a part of holidaymaking for some…