Despite me having previously stated that I think my 2024 car will be electric, I have been looking hard at the ID3 (well right up to lockdown 2...)
I am tempted, I can see most of the advantages but what I can't seem to get away from is that charging on the road is not yet ready. Its not that chargers don't exist, its that they may or may not be operational or unoccupied when i get there. That does radically change the real world situation.
Last weekend I looked at a few trips I would need to do regularly, that are over 200 miles and looked at zapmap to understand the logistics. It would be possible, but only if the chargers were available to use. Thats akin to using petrol, running low and discovering that none of the petrol stations on your satnav are open or that they have a 3 hour queue. Driving between them all, all over off your route hoping to find one working while watching the petrol gauge fall...i've actually been there before.... in France during the fuel protests - I can tell you, it aint fun!
I don't care about over night charging, i have a drive, it can happily plug in there.
I'm sure it will come good in the end, but until there are plentiful 100kw chargers available (and I mean LOTS) the problem is actually going to get worse in the next couple of years before it gets better.
I'd really like to choose an ID3 today, I genuinely would, but still have enough fear of being unable to carry out a 200+ mile trip without considerable angst and stress that petrol won't give me.
