I see nothing wrong with EV's in the right place, we have been electrifying the railways for years, and my ebike is handy to nip to doctors surgery, or local shops, but the electric car is not the right way to use electric vehicles in many cases.
We have a lady at the railway where I volunteer with an electric car, and no option to charge at home, we have a pair of EV charging points, and she uses one to charge her car, and her phone tells her when charged so she moves it from the charge point.
But most users plug their car in, then go an play trains, which in the main takes two hours, it does not matter if the 22 kW point can charge it in ¼ hour or 2 hours, the charge point is taken up for 2 hours. Also many cars can't charge at 22 kW, many are single phase only so 7 kW maximum with AC charge points, and even the 3 phase cars owners have complained only charging at 11 kW and I checked to see if phase lost, and no all three phases were good.
We have one user who comes to visit his mother, and his car will stay at charging point most of the day, it is quite a walk from his mothers house to the railway, he is clearly not going to nip down to move his car.
So we see huge claims about fitting recharge point, Rhyl a holiday town has the most in Wales it seems, 36 from memory in one car park, but the cars parked in Rhyl in the summer number in the 1000's, and people are not going to walk back to their car to move it, also the spaces are wider for electric cars, so a car park able to take 1000 standard cars, is down to around 800 once converted to take electric cars.
As said electric vehicles are good, in the right place, no reason not to electrify all of the railways, but what is needed is an infrastructure change, as it stands I can't get to a hospital appointment by public transport, the buses and trains start running too late, and stop running too early for me to use them to get to and from Shrewsbury. And the distance is too far to be able to afford a taxi, looking at 50 miles, also too far to do on ebike. Even with peddling on these hills the range is around 25 miles, I can make Welshpool and back 16 miles, I can't make Newtown and back 11 miles by car, but hills too steep, so need to go vie Welshpool, so 20 miles each way.
Once we can drive to the station and put our car on the train like when going to France then we may be able to use electric cars, but to drive over 50 miles radius with an electric car is at the moment not really an option, as re-charge points are not like a petrol station where we fill and go, they are parking bays, so even when car is charged, bays not vacated.
