It is a period of upheaval, coming out of a Pandemic, and transitioning to EV’s. The next 3 years will be more of a changeover period, with CATL batteries by the end of the year, EV’s will improve immensly. ICE cars will be gone, the way of Steam locomotion. You may think you can keep running your ICE vehicle, but you wont. Petrol stations will close as demand plummets, and petrol and diesel prices will go through the roof. It is basic economics. In a handful of years, the ULEZ zones will expand from the cities and engulf the whole country. We have seen the past 2 years the availability of Diesel vehicles plummet, give it another 3 years and the petrol engines will be unavailable as well. It is human nature to fight against forces that want to change your way of life. But EV’s are coming and there is nothing you can do about it. Some people just CANNOT handle change.
I can handle change but that change has to work and be suitable.
For me, an EV is just not suitable at this time. I cannot charge at home, we have very few charge points where I live and it would cost me an arm and a leg to get a plug in vehicle charged up enough to run about for the week, either through rapid charge prices and/or paying someone to take it to be charged and because of what would have to be used to get it there and back, would need a blooming big range to just do it the once a week.
EVs are great if you can home charge but are totally unsuitable for others at the present time and I can’t see that changing in our little town in the next 5 years…we actually have less public chargers than we did two or three years ago!
I’ve just ordered my latest Motability vehicle, another diesel. I’m hoping and planning on extending it and keeping it for 5 years, maybe by then things will have changed (have somewhere to charge or more charge ports available) by then.