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WLTP needs to change. Even though fossil cars have the same issue of overstating MPG, it's more significant with EV's as buyers pay more attention to it. An internationally agreed equivalent to https://ev-database.org would be ideal as that shows winter/summer urban/motorway which gives much...

Battery degradation isn't linear - it's heavily front loaded. So after 2-3 years any degradation that's going to happen will have happened. This means your 300 mile car might now be a 280 mile car, but in another 10 years it'll be a 275 mile car. I'd have no hesitation buying a ten year old...

There's examples of perhaps the <1% of fossil cars where the engine suffers a catastrophic issue and needs replacing, and there will be the <1% of EV's where the battery suffers a catastrophic issue and needs replacing. Nobody would spend $16k on a brand new BMW i3 battery for a 10 year old...

The battery will outlast the car so just find one that looks like it's been looked after and don't worry about it. There's lots of >100k mile EV's in the UK just now and a fair few >200k ones. Most battery degradation occurs in the first 20k miles then flattens out. E.g a 300 mile car becomes...

Really don't understand this point - I absolutely love driving and my current EV is as fun to drive than any of my previous petrol cars (including BMW 330i, MX5 etc..)

Hydrogen fuel cells for cars make no sense - that's why they've not taken off. Using green electricity to make hydrogen and back to electricity again results in over 60% of the energy being lost. It's much more sensible to put the energy into a battery where only around 10% is lost. That...

This is the only issue I have with Tesla opening up the network. They really need the charging stall to aligned to the middle of the space rather than on the right hand side, with a longer cable. That would allow support for any charging socket location whilst parking in the correct space...

ttst Completely agree - the actual point here is the massive CO2 reduction whilst still being able to enjoy amazing cars. Today that's at least 4x less CO2 over the life of the vehicle including manufacturing and recycling, improving as the CO2 intensity of the grid decreases. The fact that...

This would never work for taxing “car electricity”. For example mine is connected to the internet but I can disconnect it in 5 seconds. Also can charge from any 3pin socket. Many people use their own solar to charge. Road pricing is the only fair way to do it.

Agree - people need to be confident there will be chargers available, which means having 10’s of them at each site (not 2!)

If you take typical Mr BMW 3 Series or Miss Audi Q5 doing 10k miles per year you can lease an equivalent EV and fuel it for the same cost as the ICE car.

Of course I did - nobody knows exactly what is planned and when

I see where you are coming from. Driving down a residential street in some areas of town with on-street parking and 10yr old cars, EVs must seem like rich people toys that are a world away. But in 10 years time when there are millions of used EVs for sale, public charging absolutely everywhere...

Yep there will be road pricing I’m sure and it will apply to all vehicles. So you might be looking at: ICE - 20p/ mile fuel 10p / mile tax EV - 2p / mile fuel 10p / mile tax Maybe peak/off peak pricing. So the EV is still the same price or cheaper with zero tailpipe emissions.

That makes sense - expect it’ll be because the hotel own a decent size car park and it’s easy to get permission to build the chargers

Yep - rapid chargers at hotels don’t make sense as you’d have to move after 20-30mins. Loads of 7kW chargers means plug in and leave overnight which suits hotel use and other long stay places way better. Even cheaper-to-install 3kW chargers would do in some long stay locations.

If you include running costs, a new EV is cheaper than and equivalent fossil fuelled car (even as a private buyer / leaser) A used EV can be cheaper than an equivalent used fossil fuelled car (if you can find one as demand is so high right now) Also I think the example of Premier Inn - all...

They really just need a load (20/30/40+) of 7kW chargers in the car park - hotels and anywhere people park for a long time. As mentioned people will start choosing their hotel, days out, shopping locations based on good charging availability so it’s a no-brainier to bring in business.

This is a really good idea as, even though it's not really necessary, it will give people the comfort of knowing it's an option. I expect what will happen is that people will use their new e2008 for short trips, then longer ones, then even longer ones and realise that they don't need to borrow...

So would you choose a 4pot 2.0 diesel or the EV version of the same car given a winding A road with no traffic?