£4 - £5 per night to charge wheelchair

LightFlare

If people post or link misleading or exaggerated info - ofc it will be scrutinsed.

By calling out bs when it’s there actually does help those needing genuine help

LinLui

LightFlare said:

If people post or link misleading or exaggerated info - ofc it will be scrutinsed.

By calling out bs when it’s there actually does help those needing genuine help

There's plenty of misleading and exaggerated info on this thread but oddly people doing it don't like being scrutinised for it. And this board is not for questioning whether disabled people are telling the truth. Or is that it is only for that purpose when some people think it should be? We don't appear to apply the same "rules" to the people posting for advice - because it isn't up to anyone here to scrutinise their claims. 

Grumpy_chap

LinLui said:

LightFlare said:

If people post or link misleading or exaggerated info - ofc it will be scrutinsed.

By calling out bs when it’s there actually does help those needing genuine help

There's plenty of misleading and exaggerated info on this thread but oddly people doing it don't like being scrutinised for it. And this board is not for questioning whether disabled people are telling the truth. Or is that it is only for that purpose when some people think it should be? We don't appear to apply the same "rules" to the people posting for advice - because it isn't up to anyone here to scrutinise their claims. 

No one has questioned whether the individual referenced in the BBC article is telling the truth.  

What has been highlighted is an apparent incorrectly reported figure around the cost of charging a mobility scooter.  People have referenced that to public realm information on mobility scooters and other electric vehicles (cars).

You have repeatedly commented that there are people "bashing" the disabled and I do not see that happening in this thread.

What might be helpful and constructive to those that are querying the validity of the stated cost to charge the mobility scooter would be to provide details of mobility scooters where a cost to charge of £4 - £5 is plausible based upon the battery specification for that model.  That would be over 10kWh of electricity at price cap rates.  Do mobility scooter models where this type of cost of charge is plausible exist?

There is a lot of sympathy for the extra costs that can arise from living with disability and it is wholly correct that a journalist would seek to draw attention to these factors so that the necessary support can be put in place and with general consensus that the support is necessary.  That whole beneficial purpose of articles like the one being discussed in this thread is undermined when the article quotes implausible data.

As for the "rules" or scrutiny of claims when people post for advice, this forum does try to be honest and factual.  If a thread is started with clearly inconsistent data, then the OP will be asked to comment on that data.  It is a common factor in the energy boards.