Anybody here use / own / lease electric cars (not Hybrid ones)

Hi there
just wondering since this is a reasonably international Forum how many here use pure 100% electric cars, how they charge them and how do they find them e.g range etc.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
just wondering since this is a reasonably international Forum how many here use pure 100% electric cars, how they charge them and how do they find them e.g range etc.

Cheers
jimbo

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Wouldn't touch a full electric with a bargepole. Aberdeen is about 300 miles return trip from major cities like Glasgow.

Many electric cars are only good for 150 miles. So I could just about get to Glasgow, but would need to be certain of a charging port near where I was going.

With my old diesel car I could do London to Aberdeen return on one Tank.

The largest UK recovery service AA currently covers running out of electrickery (Brit slang) but I bet though they eventually introduce a waiver where you have to pay say £50.

There have been lots of complaints about people getting "fined" for outstaying a supermarket 1.5 hr parking limit whilst charging which can take 2 hours. This is a serious urine extraction.

It is absolute bollards to think UK could go all electric - our population density is too high. There are just not enough charging stations to meet demand.

Every major dual carriage way or motorway would need multiple charging stations every 10 miles.

Full electric cars are for "wifies" to do shopping or local school run.

cereberus said:

Wouldn't touch a full electric with a bargepole.

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I'd have one tomorrow if I could justify swapping out my old hybrid - I haven't driven over 150 miles in a day in over 20 years, and I park my car in the garage at night where it would always be on charge, for me, it would be perfect.

z3r010 said:

I'd have one tomorrow if I could justify swapping out my old hybrid - I haven't driven over 150 miles in a day in over 20 years, and I park my car in the garage at night where it would always be on charge, for me, it would be perfect.

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I think they should turn motorways and major A roads effectively into a giant scalextric tracks (more modernised with induction technology i.e. cars would be hybrid induction / direct battery powered).

You would pay so much per mile traveled in induction mode.

Then long distances would not be a major issue.

You would obviously have to make sure nobody ever reached 88 mph.

The UK at least has a reasonable (excluding pot holes) --if crowded road system.

I don't think electric vehicles would be good in a place like Iceland outside the capital -- many roads especially out of summer time require decent heavy off road 4 wheel drive vehicles and especially in these rural areas have to be equipped with all sorts of towing / emergency lighting and other heavy gear. Typical EV's aren't suited for that type of travel.

Towing an electric vehicle is also not on -- they have to be conveyed on a low loader with all 4 of their wheels not rotating or touching the ground surface in any way. Again no good in our rural areas.

I do actually like the idea of Green Energy vehicles -- longer term in some countries where electricity is cheap and abundant Hydrogen might be the answer.

Norway, Denmark and Finland have a reasonable road infrastructure and some bigg(ish) cities and reasonable access to cheap(ish again) power so EV's are not a problem there -- also with a massively smaller population (combined) than the UK providing the necessary infrastructure isn't that much of a problem, Sweden also sort of foots the bill - but no idea on EV usage in Sweden.

I also don't like the idea of carrying around 400KG extra dead weight (average EV battery weight) - around 1000 lbs in "old money for Brits and USA while travelling -- the weight of an average tank of diesel, Hydrogen , LPG, LNG, Petrol (Gasoline)is far smaller (over 10X and of course diminishes while driving.

The thought also of going to the top floor of a 1960's shoddily built parking structure with all that extra weight -- I'm sure we'll read in the press about the collapse of a Parking Garage in the not too distant future.

Range stats on electric cars are bonkers when in sub zero temperatures, heating full blast, full lighting, wipers etc with say 4 large adults n the vehicle. I'd be surprised if you'd get even 200 KM / 160 miles from a Tesla (if you could get 4 adults into one).

Like "Piltdown Man" the current EV technology IMO is going nowhere -- however it's always good that there are early adopters out there -- I think my ist CD player cost todays equivalent of around 1000 USD -- nowadays apart from some decent classical music CD's are almost obsolete as other more convenent systems for accessing music are available.

Cheers
jimbo