It’s a terrible situation for those severely disabled or unable to charge at home. The choice of suitable ICE vehicles gets less almost daily and I do wonder what the answer will be for these people. Car manufacturers are hardly likely to design disability friendly vehicles.[/quote Even with high number of EV’s currently available in the scheme, there is still 595 non BEV vehicles available, there stages where there was less then 595 vehicles in total on the scheme.
I suppose it depends what you mean by ‘severely disabled’. Im a paraplegic, unable to walk at all with no core muscles. I can say that it’s been a game changer for me to pull up on my drive, plug in a charger and go inside – never visiting a petrol station is a breath of fresh air. The OHME cable and plug is no heavier or difficult to handle than a garden hose, must easier than a petrol pump. I do concede that I may think differently if I didn’t have a drive way.
Im a a Amputee lost my legs from Knee down and and lost both of my arms from just below the shoulder thanks to the war on terrorism, Due to the damage to my left shoulder I can only use one prosthetic split hook, I would not be able to charge or even plug coil up a EV charger split hooks are not great at all you are very limited also at the petrol station the lovley men and woman who work there top my car up for me when I need it filled.
also Iv put 60k on my car just now as I need to travel to south of england every month from North east to see specialist to do with my other health conditions caused by the governments wars.
so when it comes to it when mobility push people like me out to be in line with the government who dont really care about anyone then ai will just leave the Scheme simple as that. The scheme is changing that there not taking every disabled person ability into consideration there only looking for profit and the more people buy the fancy paints, subwoofers, and all the cool addons these people are apart from the problems aswell.