I can never work out whether these posts are actually asking for clarity or just trying to stir up the usual disagreements.
If you can charge at home you plug the car in, have your evening and night as you usually would and wake up to a fully charged car, it’s that easy and, to be honest, doesn’t take long before the idea of going to a petrol station seems something of a chore.
If you can’t charge at home, then it’s really difficult to reap the benefits. If you work and can charge at work or if there’s a car park with free charging whilst you’re working then the benefits are still there but if you’re stuck with the current public charging network, it’ll work out more expensive. Partially because the government have allowed companies to be screwed by electricity prices, protecting domestic bills but not so much the commercial ones. Even without that, on street charging solutions just aren’t coming online as quickly as they’re needed. New builds are not yet forced to have chargers for every space and councils have more important things to try and pay for from the every decreasing budgets they have.
If you can’t charge at home, it’s really not impossible but could well be unnecessarily challenging to have to find somewhere to charge at a reasonable price. If you’re already sceptical, you’re highly unlikely to be willing to make the compromises work.
Currently, if you’re disabled, then having an EV is a very challenging option. The public charging network that is improving every month, is mostly inaccessible. This disgusting state of affairs means that those bound to wheelchairs will struggle to get to the chargers, potentially because of the inadequate space around the cars or the steps and barriers around the chargers. If they can get to the charger, the Rapid and Ultra Rapid charging cables aren’t lightweight connectors, I find them quite a weighty proposition to plug them in and, in the main, my hands work even if they’re effected by arthritis. I often look at them and try to work out just how to collect the heavy cable, wheel yourself to the right point on your car and plug in, just to go back to the charger (with a cable now in the way) to pay and, hopefully, get the charging going.
Are EVs the future, like them or not, they’ve been the target of huge amounts of investment and will be one of the means by which personal transportation will still be available but with a significantly lower impact on the planet. Too many companies have invested billions, too many countries have invested in creating an infrastructure and nobody is really creating a viable alternative. Hydrogen doesn’t yet work in a car and the chances of you being able to fill up are slim, if you think the charging network is bad, see if there’s a hydrogen pump anywhere near you.
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Mark