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[Kevin Wood]

Exactly.. I hear what everyone is saying about infrastructure being important, but it's also very costly to install and has a long pay-back period. For that reason, we need to know that it's the correct infrastructure.

Energy delivered as electricity is impossible to store efficiently and in the quantities required for a usable vehicle. In almost 200 years of making batteries we are still orders of magnitude short of the performance required. In decades of promising electric cars with charging points all over the place we have achieved nothing of any use.

By all means, let's spend our money on an infrastructure, but let's decide first if we want to deliver electricity, hydrogen or something else.

Not something that can be done in a knee-jerk, so that should exclude any politicians from the decision making process.

[tidla]

Anything car with a battery primary power source is a non starter (excuse the pun).

Batteries, even the most advanced, have no where near enough energy storage ability to meet the needs of cars.

Hydrogen fuel cells on the other hand.......

......its just a shame they create the hydrogen from natural gas.

Diesel genny in the back to charge battery techo that hasnt changed in donkeys, job done.