Yes it all looks a bit difficult. Some real technical challenges with expecting landlords to provide modern insulation for their properties, rather than forcing renters to pay through the nose to pollute!
The point is that you save money over the longer term and can therefore afford more in the future. Whether that's the next car you buy, or better holiday's, or a bigger TV, or whatever. It's an investment that has a guaranteed positive payout. And, as has been repeatedly pointed out, by 2030 the expectation is that EVs will be as cheap / cheaper upfront than ICE. Your switch over is nearer than you seem to think. Especially if you opened your mind to looking at second hand EVs. The days of first-gen Nissan Leaf's with knackered batteries are gone.
No, but that's the point. It has to be, so rather than not doing it we should just do it. It's not overly difficult to get the infrastructure needed in place.
The cost of installing millions of charging points in every terraced street and near every block of flats would be huge. As would the cost of removing them again, unused, if the hoped-for solid-state faster recharging batteries become technologically possible. There may be better uses for those billions?
But it isn't that simple away from a keyboard and living in the real world - the one where we actually live.I have embraced the change and did so several years ago. I want to grasp the benefits.
do you reckon road pricing will coming in by 2030 or a little later?
They aren't needed in streets.
That may change when everyone has an EV. I don't know the stats but I'd guess the % of folk in need of charging points right now is tiny compared to what will be needed.
how does grid balancing and off-peak charging work without direct connection? relying on fast charging kills the low cost benefits as those facilities are more expensive. let be honest, there's going to be a lot less cars and it'll be an affluent middle class thing to own them. those that have a drive or company car park will be able to afford this, everyone else using EV ubers.
Assuming you mean "on the road" cost to buy an EV vs an ICE? From what I've been reading yesterday / today, the industry expectation is that EVs will be like-for-like comparable, possibly cheaper, by 2030. A lot of that is through expected technology improvements, some from economy of scale as manufacturers switch focus from ICE to EV, and some through increasing competition in the market.
This is ignoring the potential for new technology / different approaches to reduce the size of the problem for those who can't charge at home. For example, NIO (Chinese) are in the process of building a network of battery swap stations in Europe and plans to do the same in the UK (ahead of launching the brand in the UK). NIO's cars are designed to be able to have the battery swapped, by an automated system, in just a few minutes. So those people who can't charge at home, can instead think about getting a car with a quick-swappable battery and simple drive into a battery swap station, swap the battery, and carry on - all in around the same time it takes to stop and fill up an ICE. Potentially quicker.
i mean road pricing. taxes to run on the road. at some point the drop in revenue from fuel excise duty will be covered, and EV will be liable for road pricing per mile, peak/off peak etc. maybe you haven't considered that in the guaranteed payout.
That's the point. If we get 5-minute charging in future, then we won't need street chargers; but if charging still takes 40 minutes or so, then we will. People on their way home don't stop for 40 minutes to fill up with petrol.
Abhorrent that a government, in a democracy, chooses to do what people want? A bit strong IMO.
