Charging an EV may be more expensive than you think...

Not really dealt with.

If you can get your car to an unoccupied charge point for half an hour than that isn't 'too bad' (only half an hour) - but that really is the optimistic scenario and one you can concern yourself with as the power drains in your battery. The fact that BEV cars have to sit for extended periods while refueling means this vacancy will be no certain prospect and, if there is one person in front of you, then any schedule is hosed by another half an hour. This is another compounding problem.

Your whole analysis re short journeys relies on home charging - so, while I breezed over the assumption earlier, this is in reality another major issue (functionality absence). Nobody talks about home refueling Ic cars for a reason..

Unavailability for many users and no sensible way to make it available.

Of course, even if the weak technology (batteries) do increase their overall functionality by orders of magnitude, we then run into the next problem in the chain (the grid itself or the delivery mechanism). It's intractable and for the foreseeable future it will be a significantly weaker technology than what we have with ICE currently.

Hotels will fit them as well as part of the package. They are always trying to point-score over each other. It will come, but it is early days now. As soon as we reach say 50% we will see loads of them and the chargers themselves will be cheaper.

As you know already, I'm a big fan of culling the numbers, and one of the side-effects of the BEV revolution will have that effect.

I'm not just thinking of over-crowded cities like London where in my view owning and using a car regularly is a sign of incipient insanity. I'm also thinking of the pleasant suburban areas like the one where my wife and her sister own a house. It's just a fairly normal street with perhaps 50 semis lining both sides. When the houses were built in the 30s there was an option to add an Austin 7-sized garage on the side which most owners have done.

But the facilities for car storage are now completely inadequate so a majority, I'd say 80 percent or more of owners, have concreted over their front gardens to accommodate two vehicles (sometimes more). In addition, the housing crisis appears to have discouraged grown-up children from leaving the nest so they continue to roost at Hotel Mama. Since their vehicles, if not able to be accommodated on what was once the front lawn, are now parked on the street, more often than not halfway on the pavement, a necessary arrangement otherwise the road would be blocked for delivery vans and the dustbin men.

I was reading earlier from the RAC that 25% of registered vehicles - that's around nine million cars - are parked on the street so to the extent that a switch to BEVs can make all that go away is goodness, in my view.

YMMV.

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