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Originally Posted by ScottAndrew
A hassle or completely pointless if you can never "fill it up"? 
In Scotland there about 1,200 charging points for a population of about 5.5 million. EVs as a way of life are generations away, possibly more given the size of the country relative to its population - it's over 80 times less dense than the south-east of England. |
Oh we have electricity in our houses down here, so I could fill it up overnight at least
Yes in Scotland you would have to be fairly insane, or only ever go fairly short distances. Until battery technology improves drastically, such cars can only really work in higher density populations. If you're on a motorway the car might say it has 60 miles range and you live 40 miles away, but then if traffic gets heavy and there is a lot of stop/start driving as a result, that range will plummet. So you really do need to know that there are frequent charge points if your route gets anywhere close to the range you have in the battery
