EV Owners Thread

[ianrauk]

Out of interest what area are you in?

Rochester town centre.

It wouldn't have to be at least 25m long. 10 would cover 50% of use cases. 20 pretty much 100%. In residential areas, lamp posts are usually closer together, and the chances of you having to park dead in the middle are slim.

Still too much faff with a long cable 10m is still over 30 feet of cable. That would take up a lot of boot space. And as I said, I wouldn't trust area for it not to be stolen/tampered with when out of sight. And say you had the cable max stretch to park, where would the cable go? On the pavement?
In our residential area the streets are over 100 years old so lamp posts are spaced far apart. We only have 4 in our street of 50 houses. And the posts are set against the houses as apposed to road side due to narrow pavements.

I admire your tenacity at trying to find a solution. But in our case. There isn't a satisfactory one.

 

[CXRAndy]

As per my previous posts. Plug in's simply doesn't work for us.

I was talking about the concept of the vehicle. You'd be better off with a standard ICE car.

 

[ianrauk]

I was talking about the concept of the vehicle. You'd be better off with a standard ICE car.

Of which we currently have. It's not for want of trying or not wanting. The infrastructure unfortunately is not and will not be there for streets like ours.

 

[midlife]

Nice loaner you lucky swine!

At £60k-£70k it should be nice .

 

[Venod]

At £60k-£70k it should be nice

It was very well finished, inside and out, the acceleration was frightening, 0 to 60 in less than 4 secs, but very smooth.
The fastest accelerating car I have ever driven.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

but lampposts are usually next to the road

In my neighbourhood the lampposts are currently along the kerbside. However, the council has just begun removing the old lampposts and installing new ones farthest from the kerb.

They’re obviously not preparing to use them as possible charging points, given the hazard that trailing cables would present to pedestrians.