But t t hey don’t show where or how his cable goes from the car, 30 yards down the road to his house!
There are reserved bays for disabled drivers etc, so why not one for electric cars?
And if some feel hard done by how about each house in a street has one allocated bay with electric, and only that house holder can park there, no matter how the vehicle is powered?
For those who wish, maybe a scheme to hire out their parking bay?
If you have a family with 6 cars and a 3 metre frontage you will be buying walking boots rather than blocking up neighbours spaces.
I don’t know much about EV’s and certainly profess no deep technical knowledge. My Mrs drives a plug in hybrid Kuga that I think is an awesome car.
My reservation is as follows; not everyone can afford to buy a brand new vehicle, lots of people opt for 3, 4 or 10 year old vehicles. Nothing wrong with that. My long winded point is that I bought a three year old ICE Mercedes on Sunday that I know will do around 500 miles on a full tank. In ten years time it will still do around 500 miles to that same tankfull. How many miles will the equivalent 10,12,13 year old EV do on a full charge?
This is not me nit picking btw, I think that it’s a genuine concern shared by many.
Judging by the photo, it seemed his car was directly outside his house.
That relies on people observing the “reservations”. I don’t know what the car parking is like where you live but I would not have any optimism that such an idea would actually work, because people like this are not a rarity
Up the road from me they have put in half a dozen lamp post ev charging points.
I can’t say for sure, but I suspect that they could be retrofitted to exisiting posts.
The downside is they only charge at a slow rate, but if you are there all day / night, then that probably doesn’t matter.
There are so many things that can affect the battery pack, SOH (state of health) range etc.
It also depends on the cars charging history, If it’s been DC rapid charged to death all it’s life it will probably have deteriorated more.
One thing I liked about the early Nissan Leaf was the Leaf Spy phone app, With a OBD2 adapter it will tell you exactly how many DC or AC charges it’s had in it’s life & the SOH plus it also shows how well the battery pack is balanced.
I nearly bought one years ago but the dealer wouldn’t let me use the adapter to read it’s history, It’s a read only bluetooth device so I said thanks but no thanks.
Regarding my first EV a MG ZS EV after four years the state of health was 97.7% & the range had only dropped by 7 miles & I’d never fast charged it. It’s not a linear decline & nearly every EV will be different.
That’s interesting for sure. It looks like battery decline won’t be a massive issue. Having said that my four year old I phone battery tells me it’s at 85% efficiency. That sounds quite good, but in reality it needs charging twice a day after moderate use, and really needs a new battery.
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You seem to be contradicting your own Socialist agenda that people should be disincentivised from using private car transport.Walk, cycle or use buses and trains.This is what we all voted for right ?.
The guy obviously isn’t the sharpest tool in the box. Regardless of the present council policy he could have checked that all out before taking the plunge.
You missed out your usual references to former-Yugoslavia and/or “Starlin” as you like to call him, you’re slipping… 5/10, could do better.
Ah. but you can’t say he isn’t forward planning in other respects:
“Fearful he would get “caught out” by the government’s “phase out” approach to ban the sale of petrol vehicles by 2035”. BBC
The pic of that dodgy parked Merc.
Hasn’t somebody on here just admitted to buying one? 
Terrible bit of parking that.
Busted I reckon.
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Harry having a moan about depreciation recently.
They are worth less because they contain too much technology and complications, that can cost more to fix than the car’s used value, to meet legislation.
Also shocking value for money often a 4 cylinder car at a 6 or 8 or 12 cylinder price.
Elsewhere you’ll find Harry extolling the virtues and values of the usual 12 cylinder Italian suspects running on carburettors.
Another example of ‘tech for tech’s sake’ as in a lot of trucks these days, but with horryfying consequences this time.
I mean…Wtf is wrong with a door handle?
Sorry to hear of the loss of life, but get to know your car! That was some biased reporting in that piece, Neither the people in the car nor the journalist reporting it & even the fire department “expert” should have known that all Tesla’s have a manual handle on every door. That’s just more FUD against electric cars. MSM is full of misinformation like this.
Bit of an overriding statement that, not everyone (including myself) is that familiar with Tesla’s.
Looking at the video the door release function can only be used from the inside so not much use to the emergency services on the outside. It does not appear to be highlighted anywhere either.
Reading the report all the car occupants are fairly young, the people of that generation just want to get into the car and drive and probably have not got a clue regarding the operation of the vehicle. Just ask a driver of that age if they could change a wheel if they got a puncture.
Do electric vehicles come with a paper operating manual ? or can it only be accessed on a screen inside the car. I have a six month old “mild hybrid” Merc and the operating manual is over 400 pages, who can be bothered to read that from cover to cover 
It also overloaded with electronic speed, lane control, braking, proximity warning systems that flash and beep and talk at will but I can fill it up with petrol (shock-horror) leave the tank cap off, leave the flap wide open and drive away without a light flashing or something beeping at me!!
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Yeah, maybe so, but no mention of interior manual door handles in that piece gets on my thrupenny bits.
I have an owner’s book with my MG ZS EV, but you’re right, people don’t read them.
It will be interesting to read about the follow-up to this accident, as Tesla will publish the findings as to what happened prior to the accident.