@keyzo As the everage daily mileage ax Acording to SMMT is 24 miles per day the majority if ev users won’t need fast chargers, especially with most having hone chargers for overnight charging. Doing a rare long journey, there are plenty if chargers which will charge whilst you have a break, something to eat etc. Sales reps get their mileage paid for,so fast chargers with there high motorway prices is not an issue. Yes, evs are not going to suit everyone, same way a Feisal or alternative Petrol doesn’t suit. However the attitude you must drive around with 400 miles with a tank if single use fuel,nwhilst you actually do 24 miles us nit logical either.
Hi Roger, I wish I was an average user doing 24 miles per day, if I were I would have tried an EV by now, not because I thing they are green, which I don’t but, for the potential savings charging at home. However I do regular longer journeys ontop of my 3 weekly visits, visiting family. Hence my previous coomment of the lack of decent chargers on routes other than motoways. If there were more availability of 100+kW chargers i’d probably have had one by now. 450 miles on a full tank would in most cases get me there and back on fresh air for the bit of the journey. I hate stopping, which stems from work and if I do its for a pee, having 50kW chargers most the way would mean me stopping for prolonged periods or hopping to different charger along the route, which would drive me nuts lol. Having more 100+kW chargers away from motorways would mean a half hour stop and one charge depending on the EV of course. There is a couple of 150kW chargers on the 3 weekly route I take but, having looked more in depth they are in the wrong place, to what IU would have liked. So 400+ mile capability in a fossil fuel or BEV In my oppinion is very handy. Then range is important in what I would class an emergency.
I was hoping to sell my private car and just make do with a scheme vehicle. Equally I’m 50/50 whether to give the ioniq 5 or 6 ago. What is stopping me every time I say I’m going to order one, is winter range and I won’t have another vehicle to fall back on. Maybe a PHEV may be better for my needs or maybe an EV wil do I don’t know and its doing my head in lol. On average we do about 1200 miles month 15k a year