Electric cars still a bit shite

[Bill Wright]

What about people who have trees outside stopping the light getting in? Those who live in the ludicrous houses built with tiny windows a few decades back? The disabled who have to charge their mobility equipment and stairlifts? Those who have to have an oxygen generator running 24/7? Those who have to tumble dry because they haven't got a backyard? Those with poor sight who need a bright light to read by? Those in dodgy areas where they have to have CCTV and door security? The housebound who rely on the TV for company? Those with large families? Those with large houses?

If you made leccy cost £1 per kWh I for one would be running a genny.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

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

Bill

[dennis]

Yes, maybe 15% of it.

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

[Dave Plowman (News)]

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?

[ARW]

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

[charles]

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

[Steve Firth]

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.

[Nightjar]

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

[polygonum]

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.

[ARW]

That's teachers for you.

[harryagain]

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

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[harryagain]

[harryagain]

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.

[harryagain]

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

Ot use a taxi.

[harryagain]

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

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

[harryagain]

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

[SteveW]

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

[SteveW]

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

SteveW

[harryagain]

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

[SteveW]

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