[The Thong]

Originally Posted by Kev0607

Tech will get better, range will get better. Infrastructure has to vastly improve though and that's going to cost a fortune. Oh, they need to make cars that people can actually afford too.

And I completely agree. As I said in an earlier, a more linear approach should have been taken. There’s no way on this earth you’d realistically install a reliable infrastructure in the original 2030 cut off date and 2035 is pushing it. All this self driving electric car dream has gone quiet too. Far too many blue sky promises to try and grab votes. All they’ve managed to do is turn people off the idea.

@andy_g, I agree too. Milk delivery vehicles (they not floats as we remember them) should be electric as should be any round robin motors hat bobble around the locality. Some of those Smokey old Merc’s and Transits are a bigger contributor to localised pollution. If you could just cut back on smokey old heaps that deliver pizzas, parcels etc etc, that would be a start. £50k delivery van? Really? Very very few places to get it fixed and so on… it’ll never happen mate. Until some level of sensibility is achieved, it’ll never gain traction.
If you could design a battery that took 15 mins to charge and give you a sensible range, they’d sell like hot cakes. Until such a time lands, nothing will happen.

TT