The discussion is reasonably on track, but if its going to fall into the dead-end trap of of unnecessary polarisation that's the time for a new thread. "Electrification positive and Negative" and fill it with the usual garbage from you tube at both ends of the scale. A retrograde step in my view and a thread I wouldn't personally provide any counter-argument or content for.
I have ceased commenting on that sort of thing. For me the electric car is a simple thing, its a car that uses an alternative fuel to petrol, diesel, hydrogen, bio fuel or anything else. Nothing to dislike there and it works for me.
Not bothered in the slightest about the move to electrification or the build out of infrastructure.
History of the petrol/diesel infrastructure tells us that motoring was originally for the well-heeled, fuel was in 2-gallon cans, and not a single house or flat was ever provided with a home petrol pump. Meanwhile on-the-road fuelling expanded to virtually every village and hamlet across the UK they all had their set of pumps before....many years later the small operators became unviable, hamlet and village petrol pumps disappeared and the infrastructure changed to big volume stations in in urban areas, and retail parks and supermarkets.
Increasingly bigger EV Charging Hubs are being developed and those probably will be where longer term infrastructure will jump to, while at the same time many of the smaller settlements in Northumberland at least, are getting "on-the-road" fuel dispensers of the electric variety back again after many years without petrol pumps!
Neil
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