Like I’ve previously said I’ve dumped my company EV for a few reasons. 1. The infrastructure for EV’s nowhere meets the demand for chargers when out on the road. 2. Takes too long when out and about to charge up. My car was taking 90 mins. 3. Range. The official figure said 250 miles but the best I ever got was 218 and the worst on a winter’s day 12o. 4. Range anxiety. The number of times I turned up to a charger and found it out of order with the next closest being touch and go if I could make it there. 5. Some days I was having to charge up twice on the road adding 3 hours to my day.
Very interesting real world feedback and highlights why the current EV adoption targets seem unachievable and will most likely have to be extended. I fully appreciate that my petrol car costs a lot more to run than an EV but, in all honesty, it’s a price that I’m prepared to pay in order not to have a single one of those issues.
I filled up with petrol today. Took 5 minutes. That’s me sorted for 600 miles. My only interaction with the car over those 600 miles will be driving it. No plugging it in at home or whilst out and about. No stressing about finding a vacant and functioning charge point. No prolonged stops that I have no need whatsoever to make other than to charge the car. No range anxiety whatsoever.
Driving these days in our increasingly over populated country is stressful enough without adding another half a dozen things to worry about. I am sure that all of these issues will be resolved in the future, but current targets do seem to be overly ambitious, especially as they were set pre Covid, before the world was turned on it’s head and everything has been set back by several years.