I finally got around to watching the EV programme recommend by
andyBeaker on Sunday night. Whilst Beaker's summary is about right, there's a couple other things that stood out to me.
1. The script writer and/or narrator is/are a fuckwit(s). The first meaningful sentence out of Ms Halfpenny's gob was "...
by 2030, we'll have to give up petrol for electric cars." No. The sale of new petrol and diesel cars is to be banned from 2030, not the giving up of petrol. Dickhead(s).
2. The thing that really put me off electric vehicles, probably for life, is that the claimed range by the manufacturer can be out by up to 40%. Forty f'ing percent! If that's not tantamount to fraud then I don't know what is. When these outlandish figures are published, they are apparently based on ideal ambient conditions, including temperature, wind direction, humidity, etc., and do not include the use of any other power-consumables, such as wipers, lights, music, aircon, heating, etc. Further, the calculations assume no acceleration. Talk about unrealistic! Ok, mpg of proper engined cars is also based on ideal conditions, but they aren't over-egged by 40%!
3. The side-by-side test of two identical (apart from the colour) Kia cars was interesting, too. One driver drove 'normally' insofar as keeping up with traffic, sitting at the speed limit, using the heater and electric heated seats, etc. and the other drove as efficiently as possible. After a 130 mile drive, the spirited car was at 29% battery and the other was at 54%. Interestingly, the most efficiently driven car was calculated to have a maximum range of 230 miles, some 50 miles short of the claimed 280 mile range.
4. Unbelievably, there are four different types of charger plug connections on the market. That, to my simple mind anyway, is staggeringly stupid. After all the fuss a few years ago about the waste generated because mobile phone manufacturers were all using different connections, and they all finally agreed on USB-C, why are there four different plugs? We have Type 1, Type 2, Tesla Supercharger, and the other one (I can't remember what it's called). How f'ing dumb is that?
I'm sticking with my 3 litre Panzers thanks, even if one of them is gay petrol.