EV is the future of personal transport and will inevitably replace ICE vehicles - to many benefits in terms of cleaner air not full of exhaust fumes.
Fixing global warming however …
Me too. At present I can’t afford one, but hopefully that will change!
You know I was only teasing but yes for now its true but I firmly believe electric is the future and far nicer to drive and thats just for the few I have hired. The kia ev 5 looks promissing though. Otherwise still loking at Skoda, lots used on the tour de france.
I can concur. Having had the entire support entourage pass by me at about 3m it was telling that the cars were quiet & fume free, whilst the camera motos & gendarmes were a different matter 
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I blame the penguins.
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The transport minister said much the same thing today and generated the headline “transport minister can’t afford an electric car”
When we make the change is sound financial planning. Promoting misleading propaganda against making the change is evil.
Not quite, I still have 2 perfectly servicecable diesel cars, both more than 13 years old and I am pretty sure that they will see out my life. Why on earth would I want to get something new, it is nothing to do with money, I have enough to buy an EV and, despite the fact that getting rid of money is appealing to me to deny the evil successors (not mine), I simply don’t see the point in giving up things I like and enjoy.
Yes but that enjoyment comes at a huge cost to other people.
It would also be poor environmental management to scrap those 2 cars while they were still viable as transport. However if you were looking to buy a new car then an EV would be theoretically more environmentally friendly.
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Yes I think we all have to weigh up whether it’s better to keep an old car going despite the pollution it puts out, versus the up-front environmental cost of buying a new EV.
My current petrol car spends a lot of its time sitting still, to be honest, as I do far less mileage than I used to.
Perhaps getting a (recent-ish) second-hand EV when the dinosaur-powered vehicle curls up its tyres is the best eco option?
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It would depend on the vehicle and amount of usage, but if it were an inefficient gas-guzzler being used for high mileage then replacement is obvious. OTOH an economical diesel being used away from the town makes far more sense to keep running.
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Exactly.
We go to Lyon by electric taxi for my hospital visits.
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I think @Ancient_Mariner has made my point most ably. 
But it is not all about pecuniary advantage. Every time you buy fuel you add to the demand for more of the stuff. It doesn’t just get magicked out of thin air by the fuel fairy. New oil reserves need to be found to keep up with that demand, then it has to be extracted, transported, refined and distributed. The immense damage even before you hand over your ill-gotten for a tankful, has already been done.
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Just by being here, humans I mean, does far more damage than we could ever imagine. So perhaps mass suicide is the answer, but, as the whole point is being an earth fit for us to live on, that solution kind of destroys the point.
Just producing EVs is doing its bit to ruin the planet, so maybe we should ban moving around at all.
I do my bit by not moving around much, after a lifetime almost of wandering around the world, I now resist and do my best to avoid even the 30 km round trip to the nearest town. I think the crushing and re-forming of my 2 cars would cost well on the way to outdo the damage they are doing now. Avoiding just the production of one more EV is my contribution to saving the planet.
I know, they shit everywhere and before you know it they’ve changed the albedo of a substantial part of Antarctica 
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Fortunately, at any given moment, only half of them are lying down on their fronts - the rest are belly up sunbathing which restores balance to the Force…
I hope this is true about solar flares, as living down south in sight of the Pyrenees, we have progressively lost Astra 28.2 tv programmes over the past couple of years. We now only have 8 channels, whereas we used to have dozens.
We are in a similar location to you Jofang. We inherited a satellite dish that was erected at least 10 years ago. It still gets loads of channels but struggles with some HD channels under certain conditions. These days we almost exclusively use a firestick for UK content.
Hi Mike
we moved down south 3 years ago having lived in the Dordogne for 7 years. We moved mainly to get a bigger house and be closer to Spain with our motorhome., The house in Dordogne was bought as a holiday home in 2013 whilst I was still working, but eventually proved to be too small for full time living.
3 years ago I installed an 80cm dish on the roof, but over the past 3 years reception has slowly declined. I have a UK firestick but haven’t used it, maybe I should.