Even if we wanted an EV, like 1000's of other people we would be unable to charge the EV at home and cannot have a cable across the pavement. Not sure how people in blocks of flats would cope. if they had an EV.
It is well understood that converting to EV will require changes to previous motoring habits, such as refueling.
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The average daily car mileage in 2019(the last normal year) was 20. This means not every EV will need to recharged everyday. This gives owners options. Most owners might only need to recharge once per week or fortnight. But for some if they have access to a charger just keeping it topped up overnight is a workable strategy.
There is a scheme whereby a home owner or a business who has a charging point, can actually rent it out for others to use.
But there are also moves to set up on street chargers - often fitted to lamp posts or other dedicated systems. It may require some ingenuity, but it is unlikely to be an impossible problem to overcome.
The ICE may still be worth something at 11 years, but the EV I would think would be difficult to sell as batteries in the EV will be at the end of their life and cost a fortune to replace...
This is a pure assumption. The evidence is that battery packs are lasting far longer than most pundits have guessed and most will still have useful capacity beyond 11 years.
Depending on teh reason for the loss of charge capacity, some batteries can be repaired to a reasonable level of performance.
As time goes by there will be a steady increase in the number of refurbished second hand batteries available.
EV's wont die just because the battery capacity has diminished, a more luxurious secondhand model with a reduced range might appeal to some people.
Examining this from a different angle, we have a government ramming this down our throats at every opportunity. But we are a small Island and the %age of problem gasses that we churn out pale into insignificance to the mega nations that are not getting behind it. Do they really think we can save the planet alone.
No rational person has suggested the UK alone will cure the worlds emissions problems. But we are suffering bad air quality issues, so for that alone its worth trying to improve our own environment. And if a different approach such as the UK's can be seen to work, it may encourage others to follow. Oaks grow from small acorns, and every little bit helps.
Lest we forget the Economy. EVs at the present time will cost this country dearly in many ways. The CAMC recently commissioned a research paper. It was established that CAMC members alone , using their caravans contribute over £400 million per annum to our Economy. Isolated areas such as North Norfolk would go bust without caravanners. It is argued similar results will emanate from the C&CC members, never mind the non member regime.
Can we afford to be so green🤢🤢
Do we have an alternative? Following on from Thingy's post, climate change and air quality (and C19) are hot potato's at the moment and Gov't has made changes, debateing them is futile as they have already happened, so we have to roll with the punches.
Most people (inc me) are not happy with change for the sake of change. It often causes us to have to change long established habits which is always difficult. And I strongly suspect the conventional Touring caravan holiday will have change. Less site hopping, perhaps even closer to home. Caravan sites will have to consider how to handle EV's, and perhaps introduce charging points somewhere on the site.
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