There are places "near" my destination if by near you mean within the town but that means spending 45 mins of my time visiting sat by myself at a coffee shop. My destination is someone's house and they don't have an EV, or even an accessible 3 pin socket. There is nowhere I can drop it off at and walk back to. This isn't FUD, it's real world examples and it's not one location. I've got friends and family that I visit regularly all over the country and not a single one of them has an EV charger at their home or a nearby destination charger. Pretty much all my visits to friends and family means I have to spend some time during the weekend sat in my car while it charges which I wouldn't be doing with an ICE.
Yes, filling an ICE does take seconds. Most importantly I can pull in and fill up without getting the kids out of the car.
Like I've already said, and you can check my post history if you're that desperate, I have an EV and I will be getting another because the benefits outweigh the negatives but whenever I have to travel beyond the range of the car (return journey) then it is far less convenient than an ICE. The majority of my driving is done locally and I really like my car. It's a great value lease, cheap to run, easy to charge and lovely to drive.
Pretending there are no negatives to an EV is frankly bizarre.
You're wasting your breath mate :ROFLMAO: He goes off on one whenever the topic comes up and after making wild accusations and assumptions, there's no middle ground to be had.
FWIW, I've had my Hyundai Ioniq for coming up 4 years now and agree with everything you say. For 90% of my driving, my EV is perfect. It's cheap, lovely to drive and it's been a bargain too as my lease was ridiculously low which was compounded by the really cheap charging. The TCO has been great and I'm looking at buying a second hand Polestar 2 next year.
For the 230 mile trips I take back to Teesside, I've largely sussed charging options but even then, due to my car only taking 50 kw max, it adds about 45-60 minutes to the one way journey time, but that's only if I manage to get a good charger and dont have to queue.
Thankfully the public charging situation has gotten a bit better this year but the last 18 months were a pain in the ****, which I think even Smalltown agrees on.
Sounds daft but we get the kids from school at 3.30pm and the additional 45 -90 mins can be the difference between us going out for dinner on the Friday evening or not, which makes the most of the weekend.
This is a bit of a pain because I can't change the time the kids finish school and in my ICE we would be pretty much be guaranteed to get back for 7ish unless there was an accident in the motorway.
The most recent trip we made home, we had to wait 25 minutes for a charger at Barnsley and then with charging time of 50 minutes to get to 80%, we got into Boro at 8.45pm.
I then still had to go and charge again soon after we landed to ensure a return trip to Whitby the next day was sorted.
This is a real life scenario and nobody is going to die, but it is inconvenient when you've only got a short amount of time to visit family and want to make the most of it rather than ******* about.
I'll not be changing back though. The drop in second hand EVs has come at a good time for me and I'll be upgrading the car to one which can do the trip to Teesside in one go next year. I'm not sure if my kids are not keeping sufficiently hydrated or something, but despite what others have said above, a 3.5 hour run without a **** stop is no issue at all for us.
