Pro's and con's for buying an electric vehicle

Still impractical for me to consider buying one yet.

Same here Cariadon. No suitable (reasonably priced ) tow cars. Our second vehicle does about 1,500 miles.

Had to do an unexpected journey this afternoon, and stopped at a service area on the motorway and near by was EV charging point. In order to operate the charger you had to have downloaded an app to your phone, so not only will you have a smart car you will also have a smart phone. Let's hope there's a good phone signal in the area. There was 6 charging bays.

It is mostly FOC but there may be occasions on longer journeys where there are no free charging facilities and paying a modest sum is better than the car grinding to a halt because of running out of power!

Could I download the necessary app to my Ipad?

I wonder if laid to waste in the search liathiaum for batteries in the western world a country the size Wales  would we be so enthuastic about electric cars ? 

You can indeed Malc, Android or Apple but optimised for iphone..

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Thanks for the link, Metheven. I've just downloaded the app. However, I can't complete all the details yet because it's asking for the registration number which I won't know until I get delivery of the car. It's still under production in the factory according to the last email I received from the salesman.

Hopefully lithium will be used less as hydrogen takes over.

Don’t think many EV cars would get very far today with the weather we having. In fact truth to tell I wouldn’t get into a smart car at all in this weather.

Some interesting info re potential range, using official figures.

If I have understood what I have read correctly. A new test was brought in at the end of last year to test the efficiency of vehicles, called the worldwide harmonised light vehicle test procedure WLTP. This is supposed to provide a more realistic figure for mpg, or range of EV's and will eventually replace the old NEDC (new European driving cycle) test, that we are familiar with.

The difference in the test results are reasonably large.
The new Nissan Leaf figures I have found are 168 miles WLTP and 235 NEDC.
The 99 mile figure quoted for the Smart appears to use the old NEDC test. I could not find a figure using the new procedure.