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Probably a much better idea first to have a decent public transport and electric car support network throughout the country first. We don't all live in the cit
by mellosouls 2mo ago
Probably a much better idea first to have a decent public transport and electric car support network throughout the country first.
We don't all live in the city.
- hdgvhicv 2mo agoAnd those of us who don’t can just plug in at home.
- mellosouls 2mo agoExcept for the many many people who don't have off street parking.
- Ancapistani 2mo agoWho lives in the country that doesn't have "off street parking"? I'm having trouble envisioning that.
- mellosouls 2mo agoI'm having trouble envisioning that. Yeah that seems to be the general problem here. Electric car champions and city dwellers living in a bubble.
- hdgvhicv 2mo agoCity dwellers are the ones that use public land to store their cars. Of the three Villages I know well (my sisters, the one I lived in until moving to a larger 8000 person town, and the one with the primary school) I can’t think of any Likewise the tiny hamlets I drove through on the way to school didn’t have people parking on the road, there’s simply no room. You occasionally get delivery vehicles stop and it causes chaos.
- mellosouls 2mo agoI'm thinking mostly of eg terraced streets in villages and towns. Similar to cities in that there tends to be a single space for parking on the street but multiple car owners per house on average. Different to cities in that there isn't remotely the public transport infrastructure to support getting rid of cars, or the private facility to support electric overnight charging for the longer distance car-commuting etc that isn't generally needed if you live in cities. Things are improving with technological advance but - again - not everybody can afford those advances and the latest models. It's a completely different lifestyle living in those sorts of places in some respects.
- Ancapistani 2mo agoWe don’t even have streets. Think “dirt roads”.
- hdgvhicv 2mo agoSo in rural areas there’s no parking for the street as that’s where the cars that drive are. You get pasig places and occasional some idiot will park in them briefly. Even including your towns the vast majority of houses have off street parking, at least according the the rac You have a very niche issue. 1) storing car on public land at home and office 2) driving excessively long mileage each day 3) having a small capacity car This is a tiny number of people.
- mellosouls 2mo agoNot at all. You're quoting from a report based on data from a Net Zero campaign. But let's give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it's accurate, 60-70% having access to electric overnight. That's still leaves millions (?) of households with on street parking. Most commuters outside cities get on quite ok with normal cars - because they have to - and a third of them is hardly "niche".
- hdgvhicv 2mo agoIt’s an RAC report, they are on the side of car owners. You’re combining. My mother doesn’t have off street parking as she lives in a town. She’s one of the 30% If she had a typical ev she’d have to charge it once a month. You’re talking the 30% without off street parking and have high mileage (same needing more than one charge a week).
- hdgvhicv 2mo agoVery small number in the U.K. outside of big cities and towns. In England 65% have off-road parking outside of London, and most of that 35% will be in cities and towns. I can’t think of a single house in my sisters village without parking. The village hall also has a carpark with two 7kW chargers.