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Quote: Originally posted by macquatic on 10/1/2023

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Yep, I was virtually guaranteed a reply from a die hard electric fan!
Anyway, the article isn't "Click Bait" in my view. Public rapids are all over and if you want to get somewhere (in reasonable time), they would need to be used.
The article is about charging whilst doing longer journeys, not charging your EV at home!

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Quote: Originally posted by tdrees on 10/1/2023

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Define “longer journey”. 1 hour of driving? 2 hours? 4 hours? 6 hours? More? Mine will do between 4 and 5 hours driving 200 to
250 miles(if I am careful) between charges. Many EVs will do over 300 (6 hours) between charges. For “regular” purposes, 200 miles covers 90% of my travel. The other 10% is at _worst case_ the same cost as diesel or petrol. But even if all my journeys were 400 miles (8 hours), I would still only pay an average of close to half the figures the paper quotes, because half of my charging would be from home at low cost. The article is playing on the worst case scenario and making a noise about it.I wouldn’t describe myself as a die hard electric fan. I acknowledge there are cases where they don’t make sense or work yet. If you can’t charge at home and drive 300 miles a day, or tow long distances every day, or tow 90% of the time - the charging network is not up to the job. But I will also challenge poor journalism that picks on tough cases as the norm, and challenge them with my own experience and evidence. If you want to examine the worst case, then fine. It costs what the article says. But if you examine something closer to real life, it’s just doesn’t stack up.

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Quote: Originally posted by tdrees on 11/1/2023

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So, in your opinion what is a "long" and what is a "short" journey? If my understanding is so way off base as to be laughable, help me out with what the "rest of the world" thinks is a long, short or average journey? Or do you want to pretend that the "truth" painted by the Telegraph is the only real view of the world (because I can assure you it does not match my world at all).

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Quote: Originally posted by saxo1 on 12/1/2023

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If I could afford an electric car I would buy one tomorrow.
I could charge at home and at the most, for the distances I drive, I would only need to use public chargers once possibly twice per year when I drive to France on holiday.
saxo1

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