"NY" wrote in message
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"Theo" wrote in message
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Steve Walker wrote:
They are never going to provide charging on cross-channel ferries.

The house we were "visiting" (to buy) was not ours until we had done the
paperwork, had only a 3kW supply limit, was at the time disconnected and
we only stopped there long enough to look (bought as seen on the day)
and again for an hour to spray woodworm killer.

Charging anywhere on route, would have delayed us considerably.

So for the one weekend in your life when you drive to France, buy a
house,
spray it with woodworm killer, and drive home again, you rent a petrol or
diesel car.

Perhaps the other weekends in your life don't involve nonstop driving
1000+ miles and are not as action-packed?

This is the problem with electric cars - one car cannot do all the jobs
and you may need either to own a second (petrol/diesel) car or else rent
one - both of which are all extra cost.

And no advantage at all with an EV, just downsides with having
to plug the damned thing in every time you use it, hopeless on
long trips, ****ed climate control in it, stupid price of it etc etc
etc. The only advantage is a lower fuel cost per mile. **** that.

We, the public, are being asked to change the way we live and to accept a
sub-standard product. When EVs are at least as good as petrol/diesel, in
terms of range and refuelling, *then* is the time to phase out
petrol/diesel.

Not even then because the battery doesn’t last
anything like as long as an ICE engine does.

But the date of petrol/diesel car withdrawal (ie no longer sold any more)
has already been announced.

That wont happen imo. The voters will give
any pollys actually stupid enough to enforce
that the bums rush at the ballot box.

That may be to spur manufacturers to get their acts together,

And **** even more money against the wall that we will be
paying for even if we arent stupid enough to buy an EV.

though I'm sure they are all working flat out as it is to find solutions.

A few arent. And I bet it end up as stupid a fad as
diesels were too. And those really only have one
major downside, the higher maintenance costs

But if the date comes and we still have EVs with a maximum range of 200
miles and a recharge time (to restore the full range) of over an hour (and
maybe considerably longer) then it will be a huge step backwards in the
name of "progress".

Bet the voters wont buy it and will give stupid
pollys the bums rush at the ballot box.

Harder to do that in the EU tho, but its
only a small subset of the world's cars.

And will petrol/diesel *rental* cars always be available?

Hard to say how stupid stupid pollys will be.

Will there come a time when the cars, bought just before sales are
stopped, have worn out.

Unlikely, Cuba managed fine for half a century.

So did I with my previous ICE and I only gave up
on it because I was stupid enough to not fix the
known windscreen leak.

What then?

The stupid pollys will have got the bums rush at the ballot box.

Will we have no choice but to stop every 200 miles for a multi-hour break?

Nope, because the stupid pollys will have got the bums rush.

The problem comes when the place where you take a planned break is not the
same place as the one where you can charge the car.

Yep, I never stop at traveller traps.