High cost for a few miles

Let's hope Bojo's threat of no IC engined cars to be sold after 2030 is just his usual baloney. Otherwise there will be a lot of scrap caravans.

As said above, just a pie in the sky comment designed to make him look good, with no thought for the consequences.

Just imagine a motorway service station. At the moment you have probably a dozen or so cars filling, at say 10 minutes a fill including paying. Imagine that multiplied by 2 hours per vehicle, and only 3 or 4 charging points. We'll need our caravans to live in whilst we queue.

I do wonder what, if anything, the Club are doing on this subject?

"I do wonder what, if anything, the Club are doing on this subject?"

They're diversifying into rented static accommodation, Nutsy, much to the dismay of some as the Cayton Village thread demonstrates.

Imagine that multiplied by 2 hours per vehicle, and only 3 or 4 charging points.

I noticed yesterday that our local Shell ( next to a M6 junction) is currently having 8 charging points installed.

You can already charge EVs via your external LV socket for £8 or £2 for a hibrid ,it will mean like the rest of the UK  massive  investment in upgrading the infrastructure to cope 

 As there are thousands of houses that are unable to access charging points for their multiple cars it is going to be a very "interesting" debate in the very near future

I may have read it here sometime, but surely the simplest answer, if you could only get the motor industry to agree to a standard size/design, would be to have a network of replacement batteries, rather like gas bottles, where you could pull up and have a fully charged battery fitted and on your way in a matter of minutes. If they really want us to buy electric cars, and are as serious about the planet as they'd like us to think, surely this wouldn't be too hard to achieve?

Due to the cellular nature of EV batteries this may not be a practical proposition. Ours fill the bed of the car, the main thing needed is charging infrastructure. People who don't have charging access at home will need easy access elsewhere, much like petrol stations are used now.. Our EV is four years old and we're still happy we bought it. 

Even if swapped out batteries could be facilitated, would it be as good as the one you just had? Your new car's one replaced by a clapped out four year old one that only holds 70% of its new charge?

You have a floor load of batteries in an EV, I've mentioned before that they look like a flat box of dominoes. If ours need replacing (8 year guarantee) I presume the floor will need to be removed and new ones fitted I think the cost is around £2000 at the moment (but I may be wrong on that as I'm just the driver! ) We run the batteries down occasionally but mostly we don't need to, so a quick short charge at home keeps everything going. EVs and hybrids are very good for local journeys, I get a shock when I see fuel prices.

However the thread is about change, which is now coming faster than we thought and I hope developments for tow cars/motorhomes will speed up too. Will it be motorhomes or tow cars which take precedence?

One of the Big cheeses of Ford UK has stated that their most popular car the Fiesta to go EV the batt  to give a worthwhile mileage before charging,  would cost about the same as the entry level car does now

According to Auto Express replacement batteries for the all electric Nissan Leaf are £4920!

I've never paid anywhere near that for a whole car let alone a battery!!