Program on ITV tonight at 7-30pm 'are we ready for electric cars'...
Got round to watching this yesterday. Partly because the presenter used to do the corporate TV channel for my employer back in the 1990s and I worked with her a couple of times.
On topic though, I wasn't sure about their choice of the couple to do test drives. Driving to London is not really a typical journey for me. If I was going that far, there would have to be a reason for me to have a car at my destination for me to drive it. Would use the train.
For me, the profile of an electric car needs to cover mostly local and cross county journeys (although Yorkshire is rather large) of around 100 miles total. But occasionally, and often with little planning, a day trip could involve a 200 mile round trip with some driving around at the destination. Range anxiety is going to creep in for me on that sort of trip.
Very rarely, say once a year, we might do a road trip. If that was to the Highlands then I would not really want to do that until charging infrastructure is much improved. Bit in this scenario, hiring a car could be an option. The days of having one car which can do every possible type of journey are probably over now, and I would never want more than one car for my personal use.
I think either reliable, trustable ranges of 300 miles or so, and/or a charging infrastructure which is widespread, functional, simple and rapid, are things which will define the tipping point for me.
I think we are close. Within 5 years maybe. But my next car will be a hybrid and probably leased on a fairly short term.