Comments by "S Andersson" (@sandersson2813) on "" video.

  1. Electric works where i live in Norway, a large sparsley populated country, but Britain has too many cars. For every petrol pump, you need about 40 chargers. First of all an electric has about halfthe range, so they need charged twice as often, secondly even a short charge of about 60% takes about 20 times longer to fill a tank.
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  2.  @S4MM7ify  60% of car drivers don't have access to charge at home. There's nowhere near that number with a garage, driveway, parking space. The vast majority park on the street. Granted there will be some who have home charging, but nowhere near 60% By the way I HAVE an electric car here in Norway, but the UK is nowhere near being able to support a massive EV rollout. Ps only 3.5% of UK cars are electric and the charging is an unreliable, costly mess.
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  3.  @S4MM7ify  First of all I'm British secondly I've had EVs in the UK. Only a third of homes in the UK have a driveway/garage which could be used home charging, not 60% as claimed. The UK is years away from being able to support EV ownership at anything like the convenience of other countries. UK chargers are laughably bad for reliability, speed and cost. I'm glad it works for you, but without home charging, it's a massive pain in the arse.
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  4.  @S4MM7ify  Off road parking doesn't assume the person has a designated car parking space. Do you even live in the UK? Look around at any residential urban street and count how many have any of those things. I've probably lived in over 20 properties in the UK from student days to modern day and only a few times have I ever had any of those things. I think you live in a world of self delusion or privilege where you are only seeing houses in your own wealthy demographic. I think if you are lucky to have charging at home, or work then owning an EV in the UK is pretty convenient and perfectly liveable with, but the public charging network in the UK, as previously stated is frequently in a poor state of repair, busy, underpowered, expensive or provides power at a very slow rate. We are also coming at it from different standards, you as a UK resident, me as a Norwegian resident. When I've hired a car in the UK, doing circa 250 miles a week with nothing but public chargers (approx 50p/KW/h) then it doesn't exactly make very much sense does it? I have a PS2 in Norway, but have rented in UK VW ID4, PS2, Toyota, Polestar, Merc GLA, Skoda, Tesla etc. As for councils providing free installs, that's a funny one seeing as so many councils are broke.
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  5.  @S4MM7ify  Just because something is on Google, doesn't mean it's factual. I can find alternative "facts" to you in regards to property, so how do we determine what is true? I can find accounts of alien abduction on Google, doesn't make it true, or perhaps you think that just being on Google guarantees it? It's true that you could have hundreds of chargers installed on out streets, but who's going to pay for it? You can't just say "councils will do it for free" as what's in it for them when they are already bust? Nothing. What about people who live in flats, tenements, rural areas, terraced housing etc that don't have parking? Just because you park on the street, doesn't mean you're guaranteed a space in that street and doesn't mean you can get a space where there might be a charger. Im pleased that EV ownership is working great for you, but in order for EV ownership to be something that people actually want to buy into, then the UK needs a far better rollout. If it was something people wanted to buy into in the UK, then the value of used EVs wouldn't be so low. Public chargers in the UK are laughably expensive to the point where they are as expensive as filling a car with petrol, only less convenient and they are frequently slow. The minimum speed I get here in Norway is 50kw/h in most places.
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  6.  @HoustonRamm  That's fine if you have a charger at home, but most people don't have a driveway, garage, parking space, charging at work or even a carpark. People by and large park on the street. The other problem is the horrendous cost of public charging which at about 58p per Kw/h equates to a car doing about 42 mpg, so there's no real reason to have an electric car if you don't have a home charger in the UK.
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