Again, if you look at the charging map, you could easily tour Scotland using public chargepoints - electric car with a home charger would be great for those areas, provided there was an alternative car for the Glasgow trip, if you wanted to do it non-stop.
Died in the late 70s I think - great point-to-point, providing those points suited.
The tipping point is very very close, especially when people twig that 200+ miles is possible on a charge nowadays
Nobody does that any more (except you & I, possibly!), it's all PCP.
For new cars, perhaps but as per Phaeton, I don't buy new cars and by the time a battery car reaches my price point, it's probably going to need a new set of batteries.
Wrong on both counts I suspect:
Are they, that's good but the other issue is there aren't enough to trickle down yet and the ones with enough range, are still few and far between. There's a 12 month wait for the new Kia with a 250 mile range. There was one on Autotrader, 2nd hand but new, 4K over the list price but no 12 month wait as the advert was keen to point out, 36K.
Are you sure? There was an article the other week I will see if I can find it that the Leaf now 9 years old that the batteries are now only good for about 35 miles.
Yep. Battery life typically far exceeds that of an ICE with much less maintenance
But my 9 year old car can travel a lot further than 35 miles before I have to fill it up again, it cost me less last year when I bought it than a Leaf would & has so far cost me less than £100 in maintenance. I really want to go electric, but I just can't I cannot change my lifestyle enough to make it viable. I know it's selfish & short sighted but I don't have another option.
