On 16/06/2019 11:03, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
05:11:46 on Fri, 14 Jun 2019, whisky-dave remarked:
On Thursday, 13 June 2019 19:30:59 UTC+1, John RummÂ* wrote:
On 13/06/2019 11:35, whisky-dave wrote:
On Saturday, 8 June 2019 14:09:23 UTC+1, John RummÂ* wrote:
On 07/06/2019 14:05, whisky-dave wrote:

Do you really refill you petrol/diesel tank everytime it drops
below 70% ?
Seems a bit too much like hard work to me.

The answer might be yes, if there were very few filling stations, and
the queue to get in one during the day was 40 mins.

So in reality a no then .

Correct, that's because there are lots of filling stations, and they can
provide a full "charge" in a few mins. It takes no planning to make a
long trip in a petrol or diesel car.

Not a situation that EV drivers can as yet enjoy, hence my thought
experiment to level the playing field a bit.

But EV drivers can add a full charge to their vehicle without having
to leave the house or garage and do so while sleeping. Something
petrol or diesel car owners can't do, but they do get to sniff their
fuel.

Nor can EV drivers who don't have a garage, or other off-street parking
adjacent to their homes. Flat/maisonette dwellers are particularly
likely to suffer from the non-adjacency, as are those on estates where
the shared off-street parking is some distance from the house.

And stopping at a garage while you are passing (or, as I am going to do
later, filling up at the supermarket while I am there to shop) is
probably as quick for a once a week fill as plugging in the car a few
times - and you'll have to do thatevery night if there is any chance of
you ever suddenly getting a call which needs you to travel some
distance. With petrol of diesel you can stick to once a week, once a
fortnight, whatever suits you, but knowing that you can set off
immediately on a journey of many hundreds of miles if you need to.

SteveW