Public Car Chargers

[Brigadier]

Most petrol stations have covers over their forecourts so that you don't have to stand in the rain whilst filling up. Most public EV charging stations have no covers so you get wet whilst plugging in.

You've clearly never filled up while it's pizzing down in a horizontal monsoon.

Or you're lying

 

[securespark]

Never seen it!

 

[securespark]

Life is so much simpler, with an ICE.

We had some teething troubles, but now we're good.

 

[SPLINE]

Yes - it takes me less than 10 seconds to plug it in in the evening, and the same to unplug in the morning.
Oh and I don't have to drive anywhere to do it.

There speaks a privileged member of the community lording it at the expense of the rest of us.

 

[IT Minion]

It's good we have all the EV drivers reducing demand for oil and helping in a small way to minimise the fuel price rises everyone else is experiencing.

 

[StephenStephen]

There speaks a privileged member of the community lording it at the expense of the rest of us.

You might want to check the context...

 

[King Billy]

The worry was that battery packs would not last. But in practice, there are many mega-mileage EVs that are still going strong.

There are a few on YT. A 230,000-odd mile MG, a 300,000 odd mile Kia to name but two.

Our cheap as chips MG4 is currently approaching 28,000 and we have had no need to call breakdown services in that time.

The infrastructure, as I said, is miles better and the tech is not far behind. New battery tech is being developed that will soon be on the market.

As for dangerous, some seem to want to hate EVs. DT and DM both reported a fire in an electric bin lorry and blamed the lorry itself, despite both knowing it was due to waste catching fire.

A fire at a Luton Airport multistorey led to rumours that it was started by an EV, where in actual fact, it was a Diesel car that started the blaze.

In fact, hybrids are most likely to catch fire, followed by petrol and Diesel vehicles, then, at the bottom of the "likely to catch fire list" are EVs.

Mobile phone batteries also catch fire, but most of us take ours to bed every night.