ufo550
Distinguished Member
There are infrastructure hurdles to jump, in all of this.
So lets suggest all ICE's are gone by 2040, and those that still need a car, the only choice is ev. Fine if you own a property with a driveway that you can charge your vehicle overnight etc; but so will you neighbour and your neighbours neighbour etc. Course, with a two or three car family, there's that additional issue for the National Grid.
Those without a drive, but have on street parking, will need to have charger cables across the pavement, lets not worry ourselves with parking on the footpath anymore. Pedestrians & peoples with disabilities, will just have to be more careful.
Those that live in flats etc, will have access to public car parks with chargers. My local council has just announced, that it intends to install some chargers in one of our local free car parks, which is marvellous news. Thing is, this car park is rammed full at the best of times, so your unlikely to be able to pop in there, and find a single free charging space.
The only way for this issue to be resolved, is like we are currently able to pop into our local petrol/diesel station and fill up with fuel in a few minutes, we need to be able to do the same thing at our local electric station, and top up our ev batteries in a few minutes.
I'm sure it will be resolved, but its going to take some doing.
So lets suggest all ICE's are gone by 2040, and those that still need a car, the only choice is ev. Fine if you own a property with a driveway that you can charge your vehicle overnight etc; but so will you neighbour and your neighbours neighbour etc. Course, with a two or three car family, there's that additional issue for the National Grid.
Those without a drive, but have on street parking, will need to have charger cables across the pavement, lets not worry ourselves with parking on the footpath anymore. Pedestrians & peoples with disabilities, will just have to be more careful.
Those that live in flats etc, will have access to public car parks with chargers. My local council has just announced, that it intends to install some chargers in one of our local free car parks, which is marvellous news. Thing is, this car park is rammed full at the best of times, so your unlikely to be able to pop in there, and find a single free charging space.
The only way for this issue to be resolved, is like we are currently able to pop into our local petrol/diesel station and fill up with fuel in a few minutes, we need to be able to do the same thing at our local electric station, and top up our ev batteries in a few minutes.
I'm sure it will be resolved, but its going to take some doing.