Current EV owners are a self-selecting group – well off enough to afford one, the facilities to charge off street, and a second car for when the EV doesn’t cut it. It’s not surprising that 80% of this group charge at home.
However, when EVs are forced on people outside this group, that’s when things will go wrong. The Motor Vehicle data are here: https://m-g.uy/my7
A very lucky escape for a family whose Tesla Model X caught fire in the garage. Fortunately, the fire department were able to drag it out in time before the entire house went with it
StoreDot seems to have a history of overpromising and underdelivering. If it’s too good to be true…
There are huge problems with EV charging, both in scalability of infrastructure and capacity for vehicle throughput. Whilst only 1% of cars on the road are EVs, it’s not (much) of a problem, but that will change hugely as EVs are forced on more and more of us…
After the catastrophic Luton Airport car park fire, increasing regulation will mean that many car park operators will simply ban EVs from entering.
New regulations proposed in the UK will cost so much to implement that many car parks will be forced to exclude EVs and other vehicles with lithium ion batteries.
Requirements include:
Link to Telegraph report: https://m-g.uy/2310cps
Link to Arup report: https://m-g.uy/arup
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