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[email protected] · July 18th 18, 10:09 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:39:53 +0100
John Williamson wrote:
On 17/07/2018 14:01, wrote:

There are enough people who do high mileages for whom an electric car
currently is not viable. Sure, for the old lady who only goes to the
supermarket once a week or the guy who drives 2 miles to work and back - win.

If I were only using it to commute, a G-Wiz would have enough range for
almost a week, but if I want to go any distance at all, I need a proper
ICE car.

My brother owns an electric car. When it was new, it did about 100 miles
per charge, so it was useful for trips to his kids' sports fixtures in
the same county as well as going shopping in the nearest town a few
miles away. After less than 5 years, he has to get his Ford Focus out if
it's more than a 60 mile round trip. Also, when his electric car was
new, he could just plug in to one of the (then rare) charging points and
top it up for free while he was shopping. Now, he is not guaranteed a
charge when he's away from home as the points are all being hogged by
plug in hybrids, and he has to pay to top up due to changes in the
systems. Progress...

I'm guessing battery life is going to be a serious issue with electric cars
unless a viable alternative to lithium ion is found. The amount of waste
generated, or altenatively the amount of energy required to recycle them is
going to be horrendous.

work. The Ford, on the other hand still does the same distance on a tank
of fuel that it did when it was new ten years ago, and the same applies
to his 45 year old MGB.

But I presume the mgb has probably has had some major servicing and repairs done
on the engine. Those 60s and 70s engines really didn't last very long without
it.