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[vinalspin]

1. No off street parking.

2. No vehicle with big enough range or fast enough charging times.

3. No vehicle large enough to accommodate my mobility gear.

[Georgie]

Tharg – Britain is only coal-free at the moment because we’re not using as much electricity as usual at the moment.  The unusually sunny, breezy Spring increased the percentage of Solar and Wind Energy production to the point that the National Grid had to pay Solar and Wind generator companies £500 million to close down!  When demand decreases, coal-powered stations are the first to be taken offline.  Once things ‘get back to normal’ they have to be (literally) fired up again.

Nuclear power isn’t a real ‘solution’ either:

Britain was a World Leader in Nuclear Power but decades of political neglect has left us without the expertise to built new.  The last of the Old Guard, most of whom are either nearing retirement or have returned to work from retirement, are all busy decommissioning Dounreay.  Britain now has to depend on China for new Nuclear Power Technology – which is ironic because China are focusing a lot of their R&D (US$3.3 billion) on far safer Thorium Reactors.

Meanwhile:

Hitachi have pulled out of funding the Wylfa Newydd power plant and the Oldbury power plant;

Toshiba have pulled out of funding Moorside, but IF (and it’s a big IF – <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>IF</span> – Rolls Royce take it on it won’t be online until 2035 at the earliest;

The Hinkley Point C reactor (which had a rather dirty but non-nuclear mishap yesterday) is being built on a potential FLOOD ZONE (yes, I do believe in Climate Change)- and won’t be online until 2025 at the earliest;

As on the 2nd June 2020 Sizewell C funding (EDF) has been put into doubt because EDF now want the British Government to cough up – either through directly charging Users more for the resultant electricity, or through spending Tax Payers money to buy Equity in the development.  The British Government are yet to respond to that ‘request’;

Bradwell B is still in the planning stage.

 

[NewYork1]

@Mitch

Thanks for the useful info.

The garage is my only off street psrking and is 10m away at the end of the garden (terrace house). I live on a busy main road so don’t think fitting one to the house would work unfortunately.

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KIA Sportage GT Line Mhev
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Peugeot 5008 Allure Premium
VW Touran SEL
Citreon C4 Picasso

[Bandit]

Yes. But only as long as the range is a solid 200 miles even in winter and the AP is personally affordable and imo, worth it.

Usual factors such as accessibility etc would also have to be met.

[mitch]

the viability of ev’s for the disabled are dependant on a number of factors

1. range for those that still do long journies.

2. size for those that have larger families and or equipment, wheelchair,walker or scooter etc.

for me neither at the moment would be an issue no family, low mileage mostly short journies and so far i am avoiding mechanical assistance. and i would be happy if they banned caravans lol.

my restriction is i need a higher seating position easy to get in and out of, and fortunately there have been a couple of contenders this time the only drawback the high ap’s. so if they come down over the next 3 years my next car will be electric.

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