At this point in time EVs require a bit more planning if going on a long journey, there is no doubt about that. If you are disabled range anxiety, which a lot of people fear, is probably quadrupled foe many reasons but Georgie has pointed out one that would affect her.
The article highlights some of the good and not so good points of EVs, however the guy who wrote it is not an EV owner so maybe is not very experienced at dealing with the particular routines associated with them. Add to that he is writing a story and maybe has sensationalized his journey just a little.
I could copy a number of YouTube videos showing long journey in Britain that have went ahead with no problems so i wouldn’t base my opinions on EVs on this article alone.
The Volkswagen e-Golf, although a very good car by all accounts, does not have the longest range at about 125 miles real world. There are cars with much longer ranges available for similar amounts of money. Take the kia e-Nero it is a similar price and will give you at least 250 miles on this type of journey and around 300 miles on shorter journeys. So on a journey like this from London to Cornwall one stop would be all that you need and i assume anyone would stop at least once on a journey of this length.
Donkey Oatie the e – Nero would suit you down to the ground range wise, dont know if it would size wise, so i think EVs with a range of 250-300 miles on a single charge would cover almost everyone’s needs, long journeys and short.
Wayne i hope Wigwams post has not put you off EVs, if we ever get a one with a decent range on the scheme, as they are great to drive and great for the environment.
With regard to generating electricity to run EVs don`t worry, electricity from wind, hydro and solar is coming on line at a phenomenal rate. Scotland produced enough wind power in the last six months to power all the homes in Scotland and most of the North of England.
The National Grid stated that “if 1,000,000 Evs arrived overnight the grid would cope with the additional demand” that was over a year ago and we have added more wind farms and solar plants since then.
“Mining rare metals for the construction of car batteries is going to be a political Hot Potato” there is no doubt about that, mining of any sort, is not environmentally friendly and neither are oil fields or fracking not to mention nuclear. There are people working on way to re-use the minerals used in batteries but my fear is that batteries in the near future will be come so cheap that it will be cheaper to bin them and that’s a problem. Many batteries will be used in peoples houses as additional storage and will get paid for storing and supplying electricity in periods of high demand, but there will still be many that go top the tip.
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.