Switching to electric cars

[Elisi]

https://www.goultralow.com/

What is Go Ultra Low?

Go Ultra Low is a joint government and car industry campaign to encourage even more drivers to switch to electric. We are currently supported by Audi, BMW, Kia, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Renault, Toyota, Volkswagen and the Government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles.


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[ZIZI]

Electric cars are all very well but they will not get you too far as there are not enough electrical charging points and the cars are very expensive compared to other types. Most places I know where there are electric charge points have weeds growing over the car parking spaces. A CostCo opened near us and over a third or the ground floor car parking space was for electric cars, I don't go there often but last time I went there were no electric or dual fuel cars in the spaces, a few cars I them but not of the right type.

The dream was for electric cars to be the norm but they are just not practical or affordable, I know is is off topic as the post is about winning tickets, just thought, as I said in my last post about ranting, that I would rant a bit ha ha .......

[Gemini]

Many car parking spaces are given over to electric car charging. I have only ever seen one car use one. Extremely frustrating when you are circling a full car park, and have to leave, and there are 4 empty spaces!

[Daisy]

This is an interesting question, Elisi.

In the late 1960s I worked at a research centre. One of the projects was electric cars, and, as now, the main problem was battery power. At the time the 'brains' behind the project thought it would take 20 years for batteries to develop sufficiently to make the electric car viable. However, it was great fun to drive (even though it had no body on it!) and it was weird but good to be driving round the site's roads in silence. If I lived in an urban environment with lots of short journeys and easy access to charging points I would definitely have one. Unlike Gem, seeing 'charging spaces' empty - I haven't even seen any charging spaces in our local car parks.

[Gemini]

LOL, come to York Daisy

I agree that electric cars could have many benefits. Especially, as you say, for drivers who make mainly shorter local journeys.

[Shemadee]

DD1 and her OH both drive hybrid cars on a lease purchase scheme via their business. The cars don't do anywhere near the promised mileage using electricity but does enough for their every day needs as they work locally. They mainly recharge the vehicles overnight at home. The thing that disconcerts me is when they are in silent mode! When they drive off I can still hear them talking until they are half way up the road. I do worry that a lot of people only half look over their shoulders when crossing minor roads and rely on hearing an oncoming car. If these cars become the norm it could be very dangerous.

my OH teases me about the cars that drive themselves. I passed my test at 19 but hardly drove at all and haven't done so for years. I can't imagine being driven in one of these vehicles no matter how safe they are said to be!

[Plantaholic]

The taxis around here are mostly hybrid cars and I agree Shemadee they are so silent it could be dangerous.