Millions of EV users spend Christmas stranded
Discussion
Why isn't the media, 2 days after the horror of millions not making it to their parents for the second year running?
Last year it was made very clear that the U.K. was over, that no one would ever celebrate Christmas away from a motorway service station ever again, that cars powered by electricity simply couldn't work and that the queues for chargers were nothing at all to do with a handful of thickos too lazy or stupid to even be able to plan a simple drive to their parents.
Are the media opting to not report another year of carnage or have even the most idiotic of EV drivers managed to work out that a different fuel just requires a different refuelling strategy and that there is no great technical issue that is going to end civilisation as we know it?
The electric revolution this time last year was over because a handful of plonkers ignored the 6 Ps.
Is this Revolution back on? Will it be televised?
Even GB News and other tabloid potato and loon hubs don't appear to be pitching end of days caused by electrons.
I'm beginning to be a bit suspicious and thinking maybe it was all blown up out of proportion last year and we can return to the natural state of knowing that a bloke who can't even get his wife and children to the grandparents due to not bothering to plan where to get electricity from en route properly might just be the same idiot who'd have been walking along the A1 with a red can in a previous life.
I suppose we have the NY rush yet and stories take time to filter out and be spun to fit agendas but it'll be interesting if most people have now learned how to refuel their cars in order to get home to mother? It would kind of show that there's really no core issue going forward with the slowest, unrevolutionlike, revolution the U.K. has seen.
Last year it was made very clear that the U.K. was over, that no one would ever celebrate Christmas away from a motorway service station ever again, that cars powered by electricity simply couldn't work and that the queues for chargers were nothing at all to do with a handful of thickos too lazy or stupid to even be able to plan a simple drive to their parents.
Are the media opting to not report another year of carnage or have even the most idiotic of EV drivers managed to work out that a different fuel just requires a different refuelling strategy and that there is no great technical issue that is going to end civilisation as we know it?
The electric revolution this time last year was over because a handful of plonkers ignored the 6 Ps.
Is this Revolution back on? Will it be televised?
Even GB News and other tabloid potato and loon hubs don't appear to be pitching end of days caused by electrons.
I'm beginning to be a bit suspicious and thinking maybe it was all blown up out of proportion last year and we can return to the natural state of knowing that a bloke who can't even get his wife and children to the grandparents due to not bothering to plan where to get electricity from en route properly might just be the same idiot who'd have been walking along the A1 with a red can in a previous life.
I suppose we have the NY rush yet and stories take time to filter out and be spun to fit agendas but it'll be interesting if most people have now learned how to refuel their cars in order to get home to mother? It would kind of show that there's really no core issue going forward with the slowest, unrevolutionlike, revolution the U.K. has seen.
paradigital said:
Above two posters must be due a whoosh.
EV “chaos” is clearly now second fiddle to the cost of living “crisis” (even though everyone I’ve spoken to has had their salary increase at least with, if not more than, inflation).
Doom and gloom sells news, to the stupid.
Beat you with the edit EV “chaos” is clearly now second fiddle to the cost of living “crisis” (even though everyone I’ve spoken to has had their salary increase at least with, if not more than, inflation).
Doom and gloom sells news, to the stupid.
paradigital said:
Above two posters must be due a whoosh.
EV “chaos” is clearly now second fiddle to the cost of living “crisis” (even though everyone I’ve spoken to has had their salary increase at least with, if not more than, inflation).
Doom and gloom sells news, to the stupid.
Parrots are too small. Maybe a Woosh Ostrich is required? EV “chaos” is clearly now second fiddle to the cost of living “crisis” (even though everyone I’ve spoken to has had their salary increase at least with, if not more than, inflation).
Doom and gloom sells news, to the stupid.
So far the fruit & veg media has only managed to find one poor chap with a Tesla that wouldn't take a charge.
If the next week lacks the same 'everyone is going to die at Tebay Services' content as last year it will highlight just how easily punters can be whipped up and made angry or scared about almost anything regardless.
Will there then be any content observing the aspect that ultimately its a non issue and that as people continue to switch very slowly over the next 30 years all the infrastructure and collective understanding as to how to refuel a different type of fuel will adjust accordingly?
Or maybe I've jumped the gun and the stories haven't yet been reported as the victims haven't yet been found dead in their cars?
Maybe people did what we did and went in October half term 
This year, however, there have been some massive improvements; the BP charge station in Birmingham and another Ionity in Carlisle have been added, and the six new chargers at the hotel we stopped at halfway made the trip from Surrey to Balloch in Scotland a total breeze.
This is with a car fully loaded with a roof box and a range fully charged of 170 miles (WLTP 301 miles).
The network for us getting to Scotland has taken a massive step forward in the last 12 months.
DonkeyApple said:
I'm beginning to be a bit suspicious and thinking maybe it was all blown up out of proportion last year and we can return to the natural state of knowing that a bloke who can't even get his wife and children to the grandparents due to not bothering to plan where to get electricity from en route properly might just be the same idiot who'd have been walking along the A1 with a red can in a previous life.
Last year was rubbish. Make no mistake about that. We had planned and still found a few chargers with people waiting or broken.This year, however, there have been some massive improvements; the BP charge station in Birmingham and another Ionity in Carlisle have been added, and the six new chargers at the hotel we stopped at halfway made the trip from Surrey to Balloch in Scotland a total breeze.
This is with a car fully loaded with a roof box and a range fully charged of 170 miles (WLTP 301 miles).
The network for us getting to Scotland has taken a massive step forward in the last 12 months.
CheesecakeRunner said:
It’s been horrendous. I was stranded for 8 hours waiting for mine to charge.
I only had time for Christmas dinner, Port and cheese, a couple of movies, and a quicky with the missus. Next year I’ll take the ICE so I can be in and out.
Now that is arguably the real problem with long haul EV travel, being trapped at the inlaws on a three pin. I only had time for Christmas dinner, Port and cheese, a couple of movies, and a quicky with the missus. Next year I’ll take the ICE so I can be in and out.
Maybe there were no issues this year as EV owners used their car as an excuse to not be able to travel to the wastelands for two days of Brexit ranting?
Edited by DonkeyApple on Wednesday 27th December 10:54
paradigital said:
Above two posters must be due a whoosh.
EV “chaos” is clearly now second fiddle to the cost of living “crisis” (even though everyone I’ve spoken to has had their salary increase at least with, if not more than, inflation).
Doom and gloom sells news, to the stupid.
I don’t know anyone who had an inflation or above pay rise this year. EV “chaos” is clearly now second fiddle to the cost of living “crisis” (even though everyone I’ve spoken to has had their salary increase at least with, if not more than, inflation).
Doom and gloom sells news, to the stupid.
Geffg said:
paradigital said:
Above two posters must be due a whoosh.
EV “chaos” is clearly now second fiddle to the cost of living “crisis” (even though everyone I’ve spoken to has had their salary increase at least with, if not more than, inflation).
Doom and gloom sells news, to the stupid.
I don’t know anyone who had an inflation or above pay rise this year. EV “chaos” is clearly now second fiddle to the cost of living “crisis” (even though everyone I’ve spoken to has had their salary increase at least with, if not more than, inflation).
Doom and gloom sells news, to the stupid.
The only ones i know, get the state pension!
Geffg said:
I don’t know anyone who had an inflation or above pay rise this year.
Something to note is that very, very many people received pay rises above their personal inflation level. The media has appeared to get confused how a % increase on 100% of income isn't the same as the % increase on a portion of spending. If someone has had a 5% pay rise this can be far greater than 50% price inflation on something they haven't bought. So in very simplistic terms, it's a sliding scale where the higher the base income the lower the impact of inflation and there is that inversion point where the lower wage inflation % as a monetary amount exceeds the personal spending inflation as a monetary amount. Which is why the economy hasn't collapsed. (Yet!)
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