Electric cars still a bit shite

But you didn't live in a rural area with poor/no public transport and the nearest work 20 miles away.

Bill

Yes, maybe 15% of it.

They quote it as a cost comparison not energy. They use more energy than a IC engined car.

I'd have an alternative to the car in that situation.

But I thought you lived in a town? So just making up stories as usual?

I did Barnsley to Banska Bystrica in 18 hours. I am not so sure that I could still do that now.

Bill's home is quite some distance from the nearest town.

Perhaps you can't read? A base allowance of 300kWh covers those uses.

That's fine. Fuel would also be taxed at such a rate as to make that the painful option.

Modern cars don't do that. They stop the engine when the car stops moving and restart it when you want to move off again. It gets them better EU emissions ratings.

Colin Bignell

I don't. But my work was in a place with, effectively, no public transport. (There were a couple of buses that ran not too far away but in the wrong direction for me. The nearest railway station had no obvious route to where I live and was quite a walk.)

I now work within walking distance of my work. So the limitations on transport are now those of using the company transport to get to sites as required.

That's teachers for you.

You don't have to go to the big ones. There are some that are free. Eg many gliding clubs.

She will have to get one her bike. As her predecessors did.

And your job will no longer be possible in that form. The only reason you do it is because it's possible.

We will go back to fifty years ago when cars were luxuries.

Ot use a taxi.

The HS2 is unlikely to come to pass. Stupid idea.

But it still would use less than what it replaces, which is flying.

All you need to get round that is a PV panel. Most sensible people will have one in the near future.

Indeed. I suffer from urticaria and at times, when getting hot start itching unbearably. There were suggestions a while ago of fining drivers for sitting with their engines running - which I would have had a real problem with!

SteveW

Oh I quite agree, but only once in a while, not every week!

SteveW

Country houses would revert to peasants and townies would live in towns. I blame stamp duty.

That'll be fun when she has to take collect patients and take them to consultant appointments!

As I said already, the extra travel time would require large numbers of extra nurses.

No they didn't. She is a Psychiatric nurse. Patients used to be incarcerated in asylums, not cared for in the community! I do know other forms of community nurse did use bikes.

She would actually be unable to do that anyway as she suffers from both hip problems (awaiting diagnosis) and balance problems (which will last for life).

No, because it is necessary. The work I do is specialised. There will be a demand for it. There will never be enough qualified and experienced people living in easy reach of companies specialising in it and site visits will always be a necessity.

SteveW