On Friday, 1 March 2019 12:24:22 UTC, Andy Bennet wrote:
On 28/02/2019 13:25, tony sayer wrote:




Does each house currently (NPI) have its own petrol dispense point?
No of course not.
You will take your car to the nearest garage to fill it up.

My nearest and second nearest don't have charging points.
It would be great if every petrol station had charging points.

My nearest one appears to be in a hotel car pack which I do't; think you're allowed to use unless you have a room booked.


Battery and charger technology are already available to chatge to 80% at
350kW.

Not much use if you can;t get to them though.

For an average 200/250 mile EV with a 40kWh battery that will charge to
80% in about 7 minutes, just a tad longer than the normal petrol tankup
time.

are there enough charging points though, as I said ZERO at my closest garage.

Plus you will be able to top up at virtually any public parking place
eventually

Eventually but how much are these public carparks ?


- supermarkets, public car parks etc etc.
Yes the infrastructure is not quite there yet, but give it another 7 -
10 years and we will be there.

Then I guess people might wait until then.


Battery and charger technology development has never had so much money
and manpower thrown at it in the history of the universe.

Much more is thrown at petrol and oil.
One of the reason electric vehicals aren't doing as well as they should in teh US because those selling Electric cars don't make as much profit on them as they do selling petrol cars so they aren't marketed as strongly and some even discorage a potential buyer from buying an electric car, because they also make less money on the petrol sales.


Battery capacities and charge power will steadily evolve.

But fossil fuel use has also become more efficient.


Andy