Electric car charging

davidmcn

gzoom said:

Polly05 said:

castle96 said:

should've bought a petrol/diesel then?

Not bought anything yet. 
But if they want people to move to electric cars, they're going to need to think about this kinda thing. Not everyone has a drive. 

I honestly don't know what the answer is, but houses with driveways/garages may command an even higher value versus houses without as EV adoption increases, and end up with a very imbalanced two class solution for EV charging.

I think it's just a transient issue, while we wait for more public charging points to be provided. Also technology is improving all the time so ranges and charging times will improve - even now I doubt all that many EV owners need a nightly charge.

Herzlos

It's very localized. There's so much unused charging here that it'd be easy to have one as long as you lived within a comfortable walk of one of the chargers.

DrEskimo

I used a public charger for over 2yrs. A 7kW post that was around a 5min walk from my terraced house. Averaged about £0.18/kWh , so not the cheapest, but certainly not expensive and much much cheaper than petrol still.

Even when I changed job which required charging every day at a 22kW post at office at 0.25/kWh, it still would work out cheaper than petrol.

The latest news that Ecoticity and Gridserve are partnering to supply motoroway service stations should be a massive step in the right direction for long distance charging. 

Polly05

No public chargers near me and I've asked my work many times if they'd considering putting one in, but no..

littleboo

I envisage autonomous electric cars which will drive themselves to a charging station overnight and be parked outside again, fully charged,  ready for when you need to leave for work.

Marvel1

Seen 2 chargers at a local McDonald"s car park,  2 cars parked in it, none are charging, just using it as a parking spot, as I expect to happen in supermarkets etc.

[Deleted User]

All this cop out where if you can't charge at home you can charge at work or the supermarket. Yeah ok, work doesn't have chargers and I don't have any need to visit a supermarket every day.

RichardD1970

Deleted_User said:

All this cop out where if you can't charge at home you can charge at work or the supermarket. Yeah ok, work doesn't have chargers and I don't have any need to visit a supermarket every day.

But 90% of people won't need to charge every day. Week and a half would do me in normal life with a half decent EV.

greyteam1959

Until you can pull into a filling station & charge your car in the same time as it takes to fill with petrol or diesel then the whole electric car thing is a nonsense.

Ectophile

greyteam1959 said:

Until you can pull into a filling station & charge your car in the same time as it takes to fill with petrol or diesel then the whole electric car thing is a nonsense.

One day, people will think it a quaint idea that you have to drive to a special place to fill your car with energy.  You'll just plug the car in wherever you happen to park.

But we're nowhere near there yet.