I can understand why you are angry that you cannot replace your BMW X1 Sport Diesel with another X1 diesel. But unfortunately we are all going to be forced to change over to electric vehicles whether we like it or not within the next ten years. Car manufacturers are no longer going to be allowed to produce petrol or diesel vehicles so if we don’t change over we will have to stop driving. I am not enthusiastic about having an electric vehicle as I live in a flat. It is not going to be as convenient for me to charge my car as it is for someone who owns a house and can charge their car on the driveway or in their garage with their own charger overnight.
I am in terrible chronic pain in my back and legs so sitting waiting for my car to fully charge at a service station or somewhere else is going to be difficult for me especially in winter. It would be great if we could charge our cars whilst out doing shopping or when we go to the cinema so we can do something productive whilst charging our vehicles and we aren’t sitting waiting.
I can understand why we are moving to electric vehicles and that it will help the environment in the long-term but I worry about charging, range, breaking down with no range left, the cold weather in Scotland where I live and the impact it will have on the range of the vehicles, the prices of electric vehicles are much higher for most brands so the advance payments on Motability are going to be higher.
The switch to electric and the Scottish Government replacing PIP with their own benefit and the impact it will have on choosing a vehicle up here in the future mean there will be massive changes ahead. I really hope the Scottish Government do agree to Motability running the scheme up here with the new disability benefit and we get access to the same vehicles the rest of the U.K does.
Hopefully the prices of electric vehicles will go down to the same price levels we pay for petrol and diesel ones currently or the prices won’t be considerably higher. The one good thing about the switch to electric is that the cars will most likely be all automatic so people who need an automatic like me will not have to select vehicles with much higher advance payments than the manual equivalent like we do currently.