EVs - have they got it all wrong?

[Biggy Stardust]

RobDickinson said:

Not sure which rally you are talking about but there are 400mi range EVs on the roads today that gets you from Plymouth to Newcastle which is a 7 hour drive. You probably pass many hundreds of EV chargers on route too.



But feel free to remain a relic, you can say it wont happen or cant happen all you like but reality is proving you utterly wrong.

I can do journeys like that in a £500 ICE car- know you of an even vaguely equivalent EV? Either now or in the foreseeable future?

[Dingu]

Biggy Stardust said:

I can do journeys like that in a £500 ICE car- know you of an even vaguely equivalent EV? Either now or in the foreseeable future?

I’m not sure that’s strictly relevant. Your £500 ICE will be what, 10 years old? So this won’t be a concern until about 2040. Which is a long time for depreciation to occur.

[DonkeyApple]

20 years is probably enough time to find a different job that isn't in Plymouth or to move house from Newcastle?

It seems unlikely that old clunker EVs will be as cheap as old clunker ICEs are today just because to have any value they must have a viable battery pack which will obviously underpin a higher base value.

Whatever that base value transpires to be there will be a finance service to facilitate it though. And on top of that, how humans adapt to travel via EVs will be almost seamless.