Hills don't impact range too much, with regen braking you'll get a lot back going down. I'm doing 40 miles a day, and 70 miles every other day in my last gen Leaf, for work. Mostly motorway with about 8 miles of stop and go traffic. I also have a bit of a lead foot.
For islands like that it will take some time for EVs to catch up with the mainland, no doubt about that. I'm surprised there's not more of a push from locals for EVs though? I imagine fuel is more expensive up there? People are probably more turned on about climate change as well, and energy independence might be more appealing.
I'm not sure how the EV bill will impact you but you might end up seeing fuel stations and super markets being mandated to have chargers soon.
For the most part, people don't want the change. A lot of the Shetland community is resistant to any kind of change, regardless of what it is. That and the fact that like I said, there's nowhere that sells them. I worked at the Kia dealership here for a while before they gave up the franchise (they were one of the first Kia dealers in the UK), which was given up because of the push that Kia were giving about having hybrid and EVs as demo cars and putting the infrastructure in place to support them. It would have meant that a new building was needed (the current building was built in the 80s I think, and isn't really suitable as a dealership now), and it was either the new building and infrastructure, or surrender the franchise, and the owner surrendered the franchise. A shame really, but I wouldn't have wanted to make that decision, though I reckon that going for the new building would have been the better idea (even if it would have been hugely expensive).
As for fuel prices, we pay motorway prices, or close to it. Lerwick has 3 petrol stations, two independent, one Gulf. All the prices are roughly the same too, so it's not like there's one bargain place to get fuel. We've got two supermarkets, neither of which have any charging facilities and no petrol stations (the council here would never have allowed them to have a petrol station, as they'd bring prices that undercut the local stations and force them out of business. And because of that, there's no competition, so people can charge what they like and we have to pay it. It's a shame but that's just how it works here unfortunately.
i love driving a car and enjoying it
I'd love to get myself an EV of some sort, but until the second hand market picks up it's not really on the table for me.
Plus I'm not sure my landlord would like me installing a charger on his property lmao.
Everyone I know who either has or is thinking about getting a car wants to go electric.
However the infrastructure in my part of Scotland is just garbage and none of our landlords want us to install chargers so we'd have to use the one and only public charger in our town of about 45,000
Welcome to Singapore, where a toyota corolla cost:
https://blog.moneysmart.sg/transportation/five-cars-you-can-buy-overseas-for-the-cost-of-a-toyota-corolla-in-singapore/
$153 000
And its still congested af
How to tell when you’ve been playing too much Warframe: when you keep reading out the abbreviation EV as “energy vampire” instead of electric vehicles
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