I submitted my response, but agree with previous post that some choices could have been better with "none of the above" or allowing to choose more than one option.

I think in order to public voluntarily adopt EV, following things need to happen

1. price becomes less than comparable ICE car
2. charging times becomes comparable to filling up tank with petrol/diesel = this is not going to happen unless you swap entire battery in charging station
3. Battery does not make up a large cost of the car = imagine tank of petrol costing half as much as the car. Because of this, many buyers are afraid that if they own EV outright (rather than hiring thru PCP) it will be worthless when selling it in future.

2. Price. I get it, it’s new, but it’s sooo much simpler than an ICE or hybrid. The price is hyped, nit justified at all.

You need to understand that businesses are having to invest heavily into new manufacturing for these cars - they need to make that money back which is why they cost more.

Selling prices of cars have never been directly related to cost of production - they're based on supply & demand perceived value - any investment in EVs by manufacturers will be recovered over several generations., just as it has for conventional IC cars - indeed since EVs are said to be simpler, they should be cheaper to make.

Nor me, although I can see the current logic of an electric second car, which is what my neighbours did. Husband had a Zoe (very pleased with it) but the wife a petrol Focus that they used for longer journeys to visit family where range was an issue. It was an excellent arrangement, particularly as the Zoe was recharged most of the time for free at the employer's site. They don't have it now though since the renewal lease was not nearly so attractive as several financial sweeteners had been removed. Now they are back to two ICE cars.

I think there will be a stark 'wakening-up' at some point regarding the National Grid. Walking in the neighbourhood recently in the cold weather and seeing all the houses running gas central heating I wondered how the grid will cope when we can no longer burn gas and are plugging our cars in to recharge. One would hope the boffins have done all the calculations and I would love to be proven wrong but I'm not so sure.

Presumably electric cars don't suffer torque-steer as it's a perfectly linear torque curve from 1 RPM?

Thank you for that explanation. However, if there are still deficiencies in the way the power is delivered, as the torque is linear then the deficiencies will be normalised, rather than a sudden burst of torque with an ICE? Sorry if I'm not being very clear...

The problem with torque steer was the way it suddenly would kick in, almost out of nowhere. I remember driving a Rover 220 Turbo Tomcat in 1992/3 that was quite bad and I didn't buy it.

Edited by Xileno on 27/02/2021 at 19:51