What sort of mileage do you do regularly?

[Hertsman]

My mileage year on year is 9000 miles, the variable to that is quite low, though this year reckon it will be 6-6.5k

The daily mileage is a huge variable, can be just a few as pop around corner to 100 + mainly as family, friend and grassroots sport contribution varies (pre-covid)

[Watts]

Battery technology needs to get to the point where you can pull up like you do for petrol into a garage bay, spend 5 mins charging and off you go again, complemented by improved self charging from the moving parts and even super efficient roofs that double up as solar panels (have to be as light and as hard as present roofs)

I read somewhere a few weeks ago where it was said there were more charging points now than there were filling stations. Of course they didn't mention that hundreds of ICE cars could be refuelled in the same time as one electric car

[kmpowell]

Each month I generally do:

20-30+ 5-10mile round trips (Local A/B roads)
8-10x 45mile round trips (Mainly A-Road)
2x 380mile round weekend away trips (Mainly Motorway)

... which is a mix of driving, and why the GTI for me is such a good Swiss-army knife (and why I specced as I did).

I've mulled over the move to electric, but those long weekend away trips require very fast charging which is only viably available (on my route) with Tesla, and that's cost prohibitive for me. I'm not yet willing to finance/pay £20k more for a car, which has worse residual trade values, and after fuel savings offers no financial incentive to recoup.

I totally understand this move is not financial led, it's environment led, but IMO you can't do one without the other. The infrastructure isn't where I need it to be yet, the hardware is too expensive, and that's before the Govt start to tax electric heavily once the shift from fossil fuels starts and they lose all those billions of pounds into the treasury from petrol/diesel sales.

[SRGTD]

Battery technology needs to get to the point where you can pull up like you do for petrol into a garage bay, spend 5 mins charging and off you go again, complemented by improved self charging from the moving parts and even super efficient roofs that double up as solar panels (have to be as light and as hard as present roofs)

I read somewhere a few weeks ago where it was said there were more charging points now than there were filling stations. Of course they didn't mention that hundreds of ICE cars could be refuelled in the same time as one electric car

And an important consideration is that currently, relatively few of those charging points are the rapid or ultra-rapid type, so time to recharge would be a consideration for some owners.

Interesting article on electric car UK charging points at the link below;

https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/

My next car is unlikely to be electric. The one after that? - probably yes, but that’ll not be for at least another 5 - 6 years or so.

[Jim_mk7.5]

Battery technology needs to get to the point where you can pull up like you do for petrol into a garage bay, spend 5 mins charging and off you go again, complemented by improved self charging from the moving parts and even super efficient roofs that double up as solar panels (have to be as light and as hard as present roofs)

I read somewhere a few weeks ago where it was said there were more charging points now than there were filling stations. Of course they didn't mention that hundreds of ICE cars could be refuelled in the same time as one electric car

And an important consideration is that currently, relatively few of those charging points are the rapid or ultra-rapid type, so time to recharge would be a consideration for some owners.

Interesting article on electric car UK charging points at the link below;

https://www.zap-map.com/statistics/

My next car is unlikely to be electric. The one after that? - probably yes, but that’ll not be for at least another 5 - 6 years or so.

Definitely needs better infrastructure if more people are going to switch.

I read the new Taycan can recharge to get 60 miles in around 4 mins but that's only using an 800v, 350KW fast charger of which I imagine there aren't many in the UK!

Got to say driving around town on electric in my 330e is very enjoyable.

[mcmaddy]

We've got a fastned charger up here in Sunderland and that's 150kw soon to be 350kw apparently.