Just had someone come to our house in a ......

Should've watched it all I guess. My bad.

 

We have a little one at work, a Zoe . The acceleration is unreal.
I'm all for it providing they have the infrastructure in place when rolled out proper.
I do wonder where the goverment will get money from as they will be losing approx 80p for every litre filled at the moment .

 

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A quick google only shows 1 in Barnsley(on Church Street).

Really, there needs to be a port in virtually every parking spot if we(as a nation) is going to go all electric...

 

There’s one in Tankersley, too.

They’re at almost every service station though on motorways. And that’s just the Tesla one, there’s other charging points all over.

 

There are currently 16,500 electric vehicle charging points in the UK. Estimates to match future demand are
currently around the 80,000 mark.

 

The e-Vehicle market doubles every year. The UK gov had no real strategy and while countries such as Poland were installing a network of chargers, UK gove were humming and arrrrring of whether to install slow charging network. As usual they didn't do much. The bus market is bigger than cars. We have installed networks of chargers and many bus chargers that charge while the bus is loading and offloading. We also have a fast charger. We are installing networks across Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Countries who are serious about reducing carbon footprint. We also sponsor the Formula-E Series. e-Vehicles will grow.

 

The batteries are like phone batteries and can decay. So you drive in with your brand new car and Sam was it for a battery that has been fast charged for two years, you’re going to be out of pocket...

I have a Mitsubishi Outlander phev which for me is the best of both worlds... until the batteries come down in price.

 

And add that to robots replacing people who pay tax.

 

Yeah, I read the same articles. Definitely concerning, but it appears that they’ve got a lot better since he worked there, from what I can gather. I’ve just bet the best part of £100,000 on that being the case, anyway...

 

How much does it cost to recharge the battery?

 

As fun as it was test driving a model x I wouldn't buy one now. I think in the next 5 years the technology will come on leaps and bounds and current gen electrics will depreciate in value like you wouldn't believe.

 

I test drive the new electric golf last month. Decent but i wont be in a rush to buy one. I'll stick with my golf R for now.

 

Be alright in our house, I'd get up to go to work in it and find out our lass had unplugged it to charge her phone.

 

At home, about £10 for a 300 mile charge. But completely free at the superchargers, on most models, or about £15 for a full charge if it's not free. (Some of the lower end models don't have free charging)

 

Way science is advancing these days I’d say they’d be out of date before being on general sale .

 

The "where the leccy" comes from is why there is massive Tax on them in Singapore , thus preventing them really entering the market here.
Musk even hammered the Sing Govt on Twitter about it.

 

Surely you don't mean Microsoft?

 

Wish I could find it on Youtube - there was a really interesting video relating to the tipping point; something along the lines of when there are a certain amount of electric vehicles on the road, then the amount of fossil fuel used to power them will be greater than the amount currently used by traditional vehicles. As you say, electric transport will only be truly efficient if the energy provided is from renewable, clean sources.

Regarding other comments on noise - was it the One Show earlier this week - or similar - did an experiment on adding 'sounds' to electric vehicles. Even a synthetic engine noise from a small speaker didn't add any sound to the interior cabin, but was infinitely safer for nearby pedestrians. I particularly liked the ice-cream van sound effect, would love to do my daily commute to Southport disguised as an ice-cream van