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Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss
(www.autoexpress.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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What mostly makes this problematic is that there still aren't enough public charging spots out in the wild to counter this handicap, people occupy those that are available for way too long and they charge quite a bit more for the kwh then you'd have to fork over at home. Especially when you can smart charge with variable rates and/or leverage solar panels.
I live in vertically built op neighbourhood from the 1950's so charging on my own meter, much like having things like solar panels, won't ever be a thing.
I do not believe this makes owning electric cars impossible persé, but the the public infrastructure is also lacking, and they won't expand this without people buying more electric cars. But people aren't buying electric cars because they can't charge. Nobody here can charge at home, even if we do have plenty of people that have the income bracket to drive electric, so it has to come from public availablity.
Progress has been extremely slow. Don't let my origional comment take away from the fact i'm 100 percent pro electric, I think it's cool as hell, but there's still plenty of situations where they are more than a little inconvenient. Having long range models here would at least reduce the frequency at which you'd need to charge.
On a side note, take a look at balcony solar. It's quite popular in a lot of places to offset your electricity usage
Yeah, thanks for the tip. I'm at least in passing aware of these solutions, but my problems aren't just concentrated around not owning a roof.
I also have detached garden house in my yard that I could technically quite easily have 4 or 6 solar panels on, but the problem I have at yard level is that I only have sun to where that garden house is till maybe 3pm on ideal days before it disappears behind the apartment building I live in. Any balcony attached panels would stop receiving direct sun after 1pm or so.
And even the sun we do have is greatly handicapped by copious amounts of surrounding vegetation. To the point I can't even really get my lawn to grow properly.
It's a lovely yard because it's kind of like having private park in the middle of a big (for my country's standards) city and because we are surrounded by big buildings it's basicly also very quiet, but that does ofcourse come with it's limitations.