Choosing a car for DD ti have wrapped?

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Soon as lock down ends and vaccines kick in, pollution will be back where it was. Bath and Birmingham have both implemented these schemes - you can argue that technically they're congestion zones not LEZ but it's much of a muchness, a charge to enter the city area if you have a certain level of car emissions

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knightstyle said:

Thanks everyone, I hadn't thought about an electric one trouble is she is in a flat with communal parking and no chance of a charge point. Council is leaseholder so perhaps she can enquire.  The town is Grantham in Lincolnshire by the way. 

That's the problem with electric, the people and the groups pushing it assume everyone lives in a nice semi on a new build estate with driveway up to the door and a home charger hanging on the wall next to it.

Heck, even my council have approved plans for a new petrol station with drive-thru coffee shop and everything yet the plans have no provision for EV chargers!

DrEskimo

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knightstyle said:

Thanks everyone, I hadn't thought about an electric one trouble is she is in a flat with communal parking and no chance of a charge point. Council is leaseholder so perhaps she can enquire.  The town is Grantham in Lincolnshire by the way. 

That's the problem with electric, the people and the groups pushing it assume everyone lives in a nice semi on a new build estate with driveway up to the door and a home charger hanging on the wall next to it.

Heck, even my council have approved plans for a new petrol station with drive-thru coffee shop and everything yet the plans have no provision for EV chargers!

I ran an EV for 2yrs living in a terraced house with no charger. There are solutions, but they are a long way off being universally viable.

BOWFER

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knightstyle said:

Thanks everyone, I hadn't thought about an electric one trouble is she is in a flat with communal parking and no chance of a charge point. Council is leaseholder so perhaps she can enquire.  The town is Grantham in Lincolnshire by the way. 

That's the problem with electric, the people and the groups pushing it assume everyone lives in a nice semi on a new build estate with driveway up to the door and a home charger hanging on the wall next to it.

Heck, even my council have approved plans for a new petrol station with drive-thru coffee shop and everything yet the plans have no provision for EV chargers!

That's the problem with people who live in flats, they assume having your own charger is necessary.
Thousands of electric car owners, right now, manage just fine charging away from home.
They charge at work, they charge while shopping, they sit on a rapid charger and read a book for 1/2 an hour.
However they do it, doesn't matter, they manage.

BOWFER

knightstyle said:

Thanks everyone, I hadn't thought about an electric one trouble is she is in a flat with communal parking and no chance of a charge point. Council is leaseholder so perhaps she can enquire.  The town is Grantham in Lincolnshire by the way. 

Dare say there's plenty of public charging points around the area?
She could just use them, plenty of other people that can't charge at home do the same.
Even our local council charges their electric vehicles on public points.

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BOWFER said:

Deleted_User said:

knightstyle said:

Thanks everyone, I hadn't thought about an electric one trouble is she is in a flat with communal parking and no chance of a charge point. Council is leaseholder so perhaps she can enquire.  The town is Grantham in Lincolnshire by the way. 

That's the problem with electric, the people and the groups pushing it assume everyone lives in a nice semi on a new build estate with driveway up to the door and a home charger hanging on the wall next to it.

Heck, even my council have approved plans for a new petrol station with drive-thru coffee shop and everything yet the plans have no provision for EV chargers!

That's the problem with people who live in flats, they assume having your own charger is necessary.
Thousands of electric car owners, right now, manage just fine charging away from home.
They charge at work, they charge while shopping, they sit on a rapid charger and read a book for 1/2 an hour.
However they do it, doesn't matter, they manage.

That's the problem. You assume everyone who can't charge at home can charge at work or are happy to sit at a public charger for an hour. And that's assuming no one is already on the charger when you rock up.

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And don't get me started on councils using the public chargers, mine were rapped for leaving their EV cars parked on them all weekend every weekend not long ago.

BOWFER

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BOWFER said:

Deleted_User said:

knightstyle said:

Thanks everyone, I hadn't thought about an electric one trouble is she is in a flat with communal parking and no chance of a charge point. Council is leaseholder so perhaps she can enquire.  The town is Grantham in Lincolnshire by the way. 

That's the problem with electric, the people and the groups pushing it assume everyone lives in a nice semi on a new build estate with driveway up to the door and a home charger hanging on the wall next to it.

Heck, even my council have approved plans for a new petrol station with drive-thru coffee shop and everything yet the plans have no provision for EV chargers!

That's the problem with people who live in flats, they assume having your own charger is necessary.
Thousands of electric car owners, right now, manage just fine charging away from home.
They charge at work, they charge while shopping, they sit on a rapid charger and read a book for 1/2 an hour.
However they do it, doesn't matter, they manage.

That's the problem. You assume everyone who can't charge at home can charge at work or are happy to sit at a public charger for an hour. And that's assuming no one is already on the charger when you rock up.

Yeah, if you're looking for reasons not to go electric, you'll find them.
Just as I could find reasons not to go for a diesel or a petrol.
But if the OP has any foresight, for a business that he says himself will be town based, he should go electric and I'm sur ehe'd manage fine.
I did, managed great and my hiatus back to an ICE car will be as brief as I can make it - they're horrible things.

lordmountararat

Deleted_User said:

Soon as lock down ends and vaccines kick in, pollution will be back where it was. Bath and Birmingham have both implemented these schemes - you can argue that technically they're congestion zones not LEZ but it's much of a muchness, a charge to enter the city area if you have a certain level of car emissions

The Bath scheme does not apply to cars (yet!)

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BOWFER said:

Deleted_User said:

BOWFER said:

Deleted_User said:

knightstyle said:

Thanks everyone, I hadn't thought about an electric one trouble is she is in a flat with communal parking and no chance of a charge point. Council is leaseholder so perhaps she can enquire.  The town is Grantham in Lincolnshire by the way. 

That's the problem with electric, the people and the groups pushing it assume everyone lives in a nice semi on a new build estate with driveway up to the door and a home charger hanging on the wall next to it.

Heck, even my council have approved plans for a new petrol station with drive-thru coffee shop and everything yet the plans have no provision for EV chargers!

That's the problem with people who live in flats, they assume having your own charger is necessary.
Thousands of electric car owners, right now, manage just fine charging away from home.
They charge at work, they charge while shopping, they sit on a rapid charger and read a book for 1/2 an hour.
However they do it, doesn't matter, they manage.

That's the problem. You assume everyone who can't charge at home can charge at work or are happy to sit at a public charger for an hour. And that's assuming no one is already on the charger when you rock up.

Yeah, if you're looking for reasons not to go electric, you'll find them.
Just as I could find reasons not to go for a diesel or a petrol.
But if the OP has any foresight, for a business that he says himself will be town based, he should go electric and I'm sur ehe'd manage fine.
I did, managed great and my hiatus back to an ICE car will be as brief as I can make it - they're horrible things.

I'm not against EV cars infact I was looking at a used Zoe not long ago. My original point was that the general consensus is that everyone can charge at home or if not then at work. Or they are expected to go to Tesco everyday and spend 30 mins shopping while it charges.  Where really if you can't charge at home/work you're *going* to be hanging around somewhere while waiting for it to charge.