Firstly @MFillingham I find your comments are intersting and take a sensible approach, even if I don’t agree with you all the time nor are you a hardline preacher!
@Kezo thank you, I try to be reasonable. I don’t know everything and jumping off the proverbial deep end might just mean I don’t engage with someone who could teach me a thing or two. It also reduces the chances of someone engaging in the conversation and, maybe, seeing my side of it. It’s no fun if everybody agreed all the time, the key is to know enough to make an informed decision and acknowledge you don’t know everything so you can continue that learning process.
[/quote]I agree many manufacturers are investing heavily in batter technolodgy, some faster than others. Take the Nio ES7, the larger version has a 150Kw “solid state battery” is acclaimed to have a 528 mile range. The same can be said for the ET7 620 mile range. Apart from they will blow the majority if not all European manufacturers out of the water on range alone let alone tech. Where do I sign for one 
Ah The enviromentalists or government regimes pushing the green agenda, what for money or the climate. What if planet earth is just evolving, like it has done for thousands of years – the hole in the ozone has healed itself, the reef in nothern Austrailia regenerated itself etc, in what was blamed by warming some 25yrs ago yet scientists have said the planet has continued to warm since then, yet its regenerated itself. Is it just what the planet does, I guess we will never know in are lifetime. Know doubt future human’s or what ever they will be will be the ones looking back saying planet earth has evolved for us like it did for our predecessors or those barstewards fried us. Sorry I don’t fully buy it, along with something I don’t thinks arguing on as we all have different oppinions in life. With out a doub’t a car for everyone will become only for the rich, BEV’s or whatever won’t be able to enter town centre’s and public transport hubs will become the norm if the green eviroment machine has its way. I doub’t it will happen in my lifetime or least whils’t I continue to drive. New BEV’s are starting to come through with 22Kw onboard chargers, overtime this is likely to increase. At the same time the large majority of existing UK home’s continue continue to be left with single phase supply’s limiting the capabilities of home chargers, whils’t it will/has become mandatory that new builds will have 3 phase supply’s, to cope with the future, something many of are European friends have had in existing homes for a long time. Then we have 1000’s of humble terraced home’s and properties that don’t have the facility to charge at home or often have to fight for a parking space outside their home’s, never mind charging from an allocated charger. The green machine, government regime of the UK pehaps tried to run before we could walk and as said in my previous comment the government isn’t banking on everyone going BEV in 2030-2035 as we wouldn’t cope. The problem as I see it, is the speed in which they are rolling out technology for a BEV UK slows or comes to a halt for whatever reason, as often happens. We are then left with an inferior network, (which is already far behind many of are European freinds, especially outside London) or the date is pushed back. Can I ask you a serious question before I leave you for the evening – If you were not on the Mb scheme or there was no scheme – what car would you be having now and why? Take care [/quote]
I currently have a MG ZS EV, it’s mine bought for by inheritance from my father, which meant I had to lose one to get the other. Without the scheme or something like it, I’d stick with that until I could afford something with a longer range. My ideal when I bought it (but was out of budget) would have been either the Kona or e-Niro both with the 64kWh battery. That solves my range issues on long trips and gives me the freedom I’d want to take the family further. In my old age I like things to be quieter, I’ve gotten past loud music and loud cars and am really appreciating the potential for driving in near silence the EV offers. I could easily imagine driving home from a painful day at work and relaxing in the peace and quiet.
Remember, if legislation does still cut in at 2035, there will be used cars around for at least 20 years, so some will still be buying a petrol engined car well into the 2040s if not the 50s. However, as we go through the 2045-55 period, I wonder what happens to petrol stations no longer having huge demand? The majority of customer’s cars will be old ones and they’ll be not so slowly breaking down more frequently. Then it’ll be that reluctant but inevitable shift to collectors and the brutally stubborn. The youth of today already accept that before they finish work they’ll be driving electric cars, they’re just hoping the offerings are more exciting than the plethora of SUVs currently on show.
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Mark