Thank you all for commenting on my thread – very interesting discussion.
1. I myself drive over 20,000 pa. This year ended up with 26,000. Winter or summer, the big battery is sufficient and beyond for doing 90 miles a day for two days in a row, and then to charge at home, using the wall charger. I only use public charging points when we go to see family at Newcastle all the way from the South West or when drive to the continental Europe e.g. to Menin Gate at Ypres (to the Memorial of the British and Commonwealth solders).
2. I didn’t know in the UK we use oil to generate electricity – I always thought it was good old coal replaced later with gas turbines (in addition to the renewable energy buzzwords).
3. I agree Tesla is still very relevant and the fact they have open-source patent approach, philosophically similar to Apache 2.0 license, encouraging open innovation, will keep their position as a visionary. And as a result – when Tesla will reduce their price again, everyone else will.
4. I am on a EV market since my first 65 reg plate – we took Renault Zoe with zero deposit, 12,000 miles pa for £172. They even installed the wall charger for free. Then a number of years later Zoe appeared on Motability with over £4,000 AP. That was laughable. So yes, I do think the prices for EV will significantly decline within a month or two, with Musk returning to lead Tesla.
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