But that is the point, the planners need to act now!. If ev's are to become the norm, then the planners need to ensure the infrastructure facilities are ready and inclusive for all users. It needs action now to drive requirements into mainstream thought processes about how to set up charge points to meet the needs of motorists including caravanners.
No - the planners are concentrating on the 99% use case, not the 1% use case, that being solo driving.
You're being generous with your numbers - most of the justification and promotion of EVs is based on averages rather than comprehensive requirements - not helped by all those who assume that all holidays involve flights rather than drives.
Buckman, not sure what you are suggesting? Is it that the large numbers of rapid chargers (207 rapid ports added in June '22) that are being installed by a number of different profitable companies are only for Solo usage (the 99% use case) and not the towing case (1%) because those same companies know that the long term future of their business is not in supporting EVs, so towing is not relevant?? Thats a very tenuous conclusion at best. At worst you sound like you need a tin foil hat to avoid being mind read by the 5G masts...
Huh? Sorry RL - which bit is over generous? Are you suggesting that more than 1% of car journeys (all cars)(journey count or miles driven) are towing? If you look at EVs, I would suggest the real towed figure for EVs is more like 0.1% or even 0.01%.
Only EVs charge at EV points. 99% of car journeys are Solo. The companies are installing for the 99% not the fewer than 1%. Yes - it will be nice to have dedicated EV charging for towing, but getting a fully fledged solo infrastructure first is more important.
It’s not that different to the mobile companies where first priority has been to cover the areas where the majority of the population live. I am surprised at just how many charging points there are in our area. Admittedly not necessarily in the main trunk route, but just a five minute detour off of it. Yet despite seeing increasing numbers of EV and PHEV I see relatively few vehicles charging at the points. In our local Lidl’s it’s mainly British Gas that seem to use one of the two charging points. I can only conclude that the electric vehicles that I see must mostly be charged at home or work.
Exactly that OC. Home charging (if you can) is cheap, convenient and easy! Rapid charging is the exception, not the norm.
Mulling through things, one of them being maybe needing a replacment boiler at home, These new boilers are being supplied ready for Hydrogen gas, now if all homes or at least say 75 % will have Hydrogen, then we could fill our Hydrogen cell cars at home.
Hmmm. Probably not. The chances of ever having pure H2 in pipes to homes is almost 0. H2 is only interesting as a fuel if it’s made from green energy. In which case, you need about twice as much electrical energy put in as you get out of the combusted hydrogen. You may as well use an electric boiler, at about half the electricity cost.
My comment was supposed to be light hearted and humorous as I cribbed it from many other posts on this forum, but seems some got the wrong end of the stick.
Well I suppose Petrol and diesel has only been an interim solution designed to kick start climate change to make us look for solutions like EV's.
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