What next... electric cars capable of towing

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EVs don't take hours to charge now let alone in 20+ years time. In 15 years time I guarantee that you will be able to tow a 1,500kg van with an EV for say 300 miles and then refuel in much less than 15 minutes. Anyone that is able to tow for more than 300 miles without a 15 min break obviously has better stamina (and bladder) than me.

As to all the comments about infrastructure the two great things about electricity are that it is very easy to transport from generator to consumer and secondly it is already virtually everywhere.  Installing charging points is hardly rocket science - even the Caravan Club (sic) could manage it.

 So we have a traditional fuelled engine to produce charge (with losses I imagine) sounds a perfect solution. 

For me a range of 300 miles (plus a bit spare) would have been ample provided that I could refuel overnight Wherever I Overnight on a journey.  That requires infrastructure all over the UK. All this might effect a 50 year old but unlikely to effect anybody presently much older than that. 

 

In 15 years time I guarantee that you will be able to tow a 1,500kg van with an EV for say 300 miles and then refuel in much less than 15 minutes.

And where in this country do we find the parking areas for all these recharges? Maybe there will be less cars on the road? Yes a present I would be fine provided CC ups their EHU to 32 amp. Death knell for some CLs probably. 

Here's another article, might be useful to read see here

There are already thousands of electric points all over the UK, in all sorts of places. You can find them on various web sites. There are four types of charge ranging from slow to fast plus the extended range vehicles.

Enough from me, we pick up a hybrid car next week, if it's awful I'll let you know. 

If you think laterally about EVs and Caravans there could be some interesting positive developments.  At the moment your caravan can run very little in terms of electrical items when off-grid because it has battery with about 1 - 1.5kWh of juice in it.  Imagine an EV with a 100kWh battery in it (some Teslas already do), plug your van into the car and you will have all the juice you need.  Or a motorhome with a say 300kWh battery pack. All you need do is pop off site to the EV charger every few days to top up.  No need for gas and duel fuel appliances.

At home

Car parks

Supermarkets

Fuelling Stations

Camp sites

Every street lamp has electricty running to it.

It really isn't that difficult

Don't agree about CLs, see my previous post.

 

Don't worry - all the hype is just a government ploy to get more cash for the treachery, it won't happen for many years and you and every motorist with a diesel will make sure it does not increase your cost of ownership - WITH YOUR VOTE.

Good to see that the Luddites are alive and kicking. Enormous lack of lateral thinking amongst many of these posters I.e. thinking about today’s technology and not what might be available in a few years time! Electricity will have a variable cost depending on the time of day and your smart charger will monitor this to give you cheapest recharge, quickest recharge etc. There will be many, many other innovations.

Just imagine that electric cars were standard and there was a proposal to introduce petrol as an alternative fuel.

Press Announcement: The Government are going to build petrol filling stations with massive tanks underground to store the fuel. These tanks will be regularly filled from giant road tankers (meanwhile the filling station will be closed). The fuel is smelly and highly flammable. You can’t store it at home, you have to get in a queue with other motorists to fill up. It has to be burned in your engine to get the car wheels to turn and in doing so produces nasty exhaust gasses and requires lots of parts in the engine like injectors that will occasionally stick and leave you stranded.

Any supporters? I know, another stupid government idea. I’ll conceived and not thought through.

what is the point of hybrids anyway. they all have petrol or diesel engines so that fuel and service stations will never disappear. seasick Steve got it right when he was on top gear by stating there is more pollution produced to make a vehicle whatever fuel it ran on than running one for a lifetime.