I agree. Pretty much my point.Kipper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:01 pm My wife's step Brother in law (is there such a thing?) is a senior test engineer and drives a Tesler model x or something, big car, £80k. He loves it and says it's just a matter of planning your trips. He journeys from Derby to Bristol from time to time a journey of some 240 miles or so (around that figure at any rate) and says that as one normally has to stop for a break these days, he just has a coffee while his Tesler uses a rapid charger, and because he was an early buyer, it is free.
But as usual, the devil is in the detail, he is one of a few. I recently stopped at Norton Cains on the M6 toll and although I did not count the cars there, it was full. Now connect all those up to a rapid charger, for even then it takes quite a while to charge up, and you will need an electricity sub-station to supply the car park and they will all need 20 min+ for a full charge not the 10 mins at a pump.
Go to visit friends and then after asking for their Wi Fi password, the next phrase will be "can I plug in to your charger?" that is of course, after they have finished with it.
So is it the future? Of course it is, but it is very early and until battery technology and charging technology is up to our motoring habits, then it will be fraught with problems.
That is what you get when the metropolitan elite make decisions based on their driving habits. What is more, the artificial timescales imposed are so unnecessary and will cause untold hardship to many people, there is no Armageddon with global warming, the planet will not melt with rising temperatures by the end of the Century if we carry on using Fossle fuels, so we need to approach the problem in a measured approach. However, with politicians whose only skill sets are advertising and legal bills, what else can you expect. I could go on and explain why I know different, but this is not the forum, however, I feel it is relevant to the subject of motoring. Whether it will fix my wobbly wheeled XC40 is another thing.
Kipper (now getting down from his soap box)
It's ok for the early adopters but multiply the adoption of EV many fold and we just don't have the necessary infrastructure.
In your service station example as well as a substation you would need a cable to supply that substation, perhaps even a few km of cable to get to the necessary point of sufficient electrical capacity.