Well I hope you all have a power cut. 
Only kidding.
Join us. You know you want to………..
The reality of it is that for most of my local’ish journeys a large estate EV would be suitable but, I travel to holiday cottage’s quite a few times a year on longer runs, and this is where an EV would piss me off. I like to do these runs in one hit, and I usually do the return run late at night in one hit as well. Although I have plenty of space for charging on my own driveway, the cottages do not have an EV charging point, so I’d be reliant on Service Stations or Supermarkets, which means that I’d have to spend valuable holiday time looking for places to charge the vehicle. I can get to most of my UK holiday destinations, drive about for a few days whilst there and do the return run on a single tank of diesel. I could also, if driving uber economically, damn near travel from the most northerly point of the UK map to the most southerly point on a single tank of diesel, spend ten minutes filling up and then do the return journey. Obviously I couldn’t do this in one hit unless I was wearing incontinence pants, but you get where I’m coming from, even as unlikely as it is to happen.
You guys with EV’s genuinely seem to like them so fair play to you. I personally have shown zero interest in them. I don’t know anyone personally that owns one and the odd few EV’s down our road are mostly company vehicles or company lease.
While the odd few new EV’s have appeared in our area, a similar amount have disappeared.
As said, for the most part an EV would work for me, but the holiday runs would soon have me rethinking my choice.
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