Rishi Sunak delays ban on new petrol and diesel cars

Bimingham and Nottingham might have decent public transport. But there is certainly room for improvement. Outside of the cities though, the public transport is deffo in need of improvement. And i can say that as i live in the midlands myself.

As well as the fact that electric cars are too expensive, the infrastructure for them is no where near good enough yet. Quite a few places dont have charging points, and those that do dont have nearly enough. What about people who live in terraced houses/have no off road parking- how are they meant to charge their cars?
People could use public transport, but public transport isnt nearly good enough. The only place where public transport is good enough is london.

Yips, no motive for me to buy one. I live in a 1st floor flat and stay in a rural enough place where range and limited public transport are serious considerations. I couldn't even tell you where nearest charging is.

Yips, no motive for me to buy one. I live in a 1st floor flat and stay in a rural enough place where range and limited public transport are serious considerations. I couldn't even tell you where nearest charging is.

Eight places listed here in Kilmarnock with free EV chargers.

https://www.ayrshireroadsalliance.org/Parking-Information/Electric-Vehicle-Charging-Points/Charge-your-car.aspx

Ayrshire is right general area but I'm not in Kilmarnock, I wouldn't have called it seminrural

Bimingham and Nottingham might have decent public transport. But there is certainly room for improvement. Outside of the cities though, the public transport is deffo in need of improvement. And i can say that as i live in the midlands myself.

Cumnock has free charge too given that list :-)

I'd assume the whole point if getting a car would be to 'go places. I'm imagining you don't have a petrol station beneath your flat either.

Obvious a home charger install is more convenient, but then the power ain't free.

I'm not on that list. Actually my petrol station is a 5 min walk and I could certainly take fuel cans to another station such as Kilmarnock if I ran out at home or indeed store one in my vehicle.

Having vehicles to go places doesn't mean that I like constant range anxiety and fear of being stranded due to sporadic infrastructure.

Other lists are available. Just you might well need to pay for the lecy.

Range anxiety for something with a <100m range fair enough, but with cars now routinely doing 250+m I dont see it so much of an issue. I get range anxiety when under 40mins range left in a ICE vehicle, not much difference in that with an EV. The equivalent of the fuel can is a three pin plug.

As said, I don't know know of any where I live.

Range anxiety isn't yours to gatekeep and getting stranded in the middle of nowhere sucks either way. Carrying a petrol can is fully within my control, access to a plug socket isn't. As much as a brand new EV might have such range, I doubt a used one of the range I could afford has that reassurance.

Thr altmerates need to be near bullet proof before the ban really