Jonnybegood your right about ev charging points not being suitable for all disabilities. I’m fine and a big strong lad and while recently charging at a rapid charger my first thought was how do those with certain disabilities are even those a bit frail cope with the big heavy cables.
To be exact it’s not necessarily the actual weight but, when removing and especially replacing the charging head from the charger, it’s the rigidness of the thick cable that makes it harder to manoeuvre, especially if your chair means you cannot get as close to the charger. Also with side charging ports making it that wee bit harder, I think front charging ports on cars would make it easier for some people. Not everybody’s disabilities are the same so some will manage and some won’t.
Your also 100% right about range worries, I don’t like the term range anxiety tbh. Regarding cars on the scheme it’s safe to say if you didn’t think about it you’d be foolish.
My current car advertises 326 and I would get about 220. Now I’m in Belfast and if I want to go to Dublin I don’t need to give it a second thought, plenty of chargers there and back. One of my other favourite drives is Donegal and there is one 50kw charging port in killybegs, if that ain’t working then I’m snookered as there are no others around that part of Donegal. Doesn’t matter how many apps you check to make sure it’s working, if it ain’t I’m in trouble. It’s the only place where I had a near miss and I panicked. I would imagine rural middle Ireland to be like rural middle England in that there may be a hell of lot less charging points. So some drives do not require any thought, some require some thought and some will require a lit of thought and some luck. I’ve seen quite a few videos of people doing John o groats to lands end in EVs without a problem, but facts are facts and i cannot get to parts of Donegal which is about 250 miles for me unless that one single charging point is working. And with that part of the world being so remote it will probably never change, mind ranges will.
This is something that could happen to ice cars, but nowhere on the scale of EV cars and a reason why some forum users here just won’t commit to ev yet, and why a lot of others won’t either.
It works for most but not all.