EVs... no one wants them!

Interesting. I can either conclude that you mean:

1 - There's no point doing anything regarding climate change.
2 - Climate change has no man-made element involving CO2 emissions.
3 - You don't care.
4 - You don't think slowing down climate change will give us more time to develop the total solution.
5 - EVs do nothing to help mitigate climate change.

Or something else?

GeneralBanter is a new username on this thread, posting like a previously banned account.
If you meant amateur sleuthing, I wasn't after their actual identity...

But you didn't ask that, you asked "If we removed all cars would it stop climate change", to which the answers I gave is correct, i.e. "No, but it would slow it down, which will help". So removing the emissions of *some* will help too, so it's worth doing.

Even if the CO2 effect is negligible *today*, that's not the point either. The point is to continue the roll out of ZEVs in order to accelerate that effect, which means we have to pass through the point we're at today (negligible effect) in order to make things better.

I see the main benefit as a reduction in local pollution also, which is one of the reasons I drive an EV as my daily, and have done for 7 years.

Thinking about buying a Model S P100d for around £40k. Can someone please talk me out of it

I could point out that an EV's carbon and AQ footprint has little bearing on how many times you drive it, how far you drive it or how fast you drive it.
Whatever relationships currently exist, they are decaying quite quickly with time, save for tyre particles.
I could also point out that an EV produced from in-country recycled battery minerals and powered by an offshore wind turbine in UK waters is about as close as we will ever get to 'standing on our own'.
You seem to want this, but don't want the pain of getting there.
What are you thinking, an overnight switch when we've stock-piled 30 million home-produced cars?
Caterham, TVR and AC have been working on EVs, so I suppose anything is possible.
Whatever you think of the value of a newly-manufactured EV's lifetime carbon footprint, what you will definitely find is that saying it's worse than a newly-manufactured ICE is demonstrably bks.
In that sense, legislation to curb and eventually eliminating production of any more ICEs makes perfect sense.
There are 1.5 billion ICE cars on the planet already, I really don't think anyone is going to go without anytime soon.
Hydrogen is the deadest duck going and mainstream e-fuel is half a century away, assuming you can find the trillion or so to pay for it.
So that just leaves EV as the last man standing.
Basically, the only reason you've got for do nothing is LiThiUm, despite the fact that we are not endlessly extracting and burning it.

But does a person really need to travel that far without a break? If it were the US, someone could make the argument for long distances without chargers or something (in the appalachia type areas), but the UK isn't a particularly big island.

Don't waste your breath

PH is full of people who drive for hours and hours, every day, without a break.

They all need cars that will do 400 or 500 miles because they're doing that regularly.

I'd love to know where all these people are going. They must have a hell of a commute.

CO2 isn't a problem, it’s just an easily measured metric by which governments can tax us.
Never in the history of the world has CO2 caused the planet to warm, it’s always been the other way round.

My chauffeur the other day told me he's from Romania and he drives back home from London every few months and prefers to drive than fly.

Anyway, he told me he drives there non stop (apart from fuel breaks for diesel) and says it takes him about 24 hrs of driving to get home. He told me EVs were useless for him.