You're right, in as much as I have a single EV, so I have no contention for the charger at home.

There's no stress about overcharging, as you can set whatever limits you want. I can set a different limit automatically for different days of the week, set per location, per car. If I forget to plugin, it doesn't matter. Forget to plug in twice, so what? With a >200 miles range, even the US average of about 40 miles a day is no big deal.

You telling me you've never driven to fill up with gas with the needle on empty and had a degree of anxiety? I've pulled off the motorway before to discover that the petrol station I wanted to fill up at was unexpectedly closed, and had to drive to the next nearest one, which was also closed, as they'd clearly had a supply issue. So I had to drive to another one in the hope that was okay, with the car showing 0 miles. That happened once ever, and I wouldn't claim that gave me fuel anxiety with ICE cars, but I've never actually had that experince with an EV so far.

I've also been stuck in big traffic jams on the motorway and been slightly anxious about fuel consumption. With an EV, a traffic jam on the motorway typically means you use less battery than if it was clear, so that issue vanishes,

Would I choose to have an EV if I couldn't charge at home or work? No, I don't think I would. But even a 2kW charger I don't think would be a problem for most people, with a single car.

I'm not here to sell EVs. I think they're less good for really long distance travel, and the costs don't work out if you're a private buyer and don't have home charging. But I think most of the issues are inflated by people who don't use them, and imagine the problems to be worse than they are.

Absolutely. Doesn't even need to be 7kW. Our work mostly puts twin 3.5kW chargers in, and for a full day at work, that's say 100 miles range.

The issue for me is how much they cost at the minute. 7p at home, probably 40p is a typical figure for 7kW charging, and 60-80p for fast charging.

I think this is where I don't entirely agree. It's possibly slightly more planning for much less of the time. In almost all our daily driving, we drive it, we plug it in when we get home. That's it. That's not a plan, that's a habit.

The vast majority of people, even in the US, do way less than the range of an electric car in a typical day. They do closer to that in a week.

It's definitely a mindset change. You rarely go somewhere to charge, you go somewhere *and* charge. So on a long trip, I'm stopping for lunch somewhere with a fast charger, and if I rent somewhere, I'm renting somewhere with a nearby slow charger. I used to look for a nearby fast charger that I could plan a stop to, but I realise that for me that's the wrong way of doing things.

Recent trip to fairly rural North Yorkshire, and the supermarket car park had council provided 75kW chargers, so bobbed it on while we picked up a few bits, and left with more charge than we needed. That took less time of mine than it would have going to fill up an ICE car.

I'm not saying there's necessarily enough chargers at the minute - once we hit the mass installation you're describing it's all a lot easier, and the price difference between home and commercial charging is mammoth.

People seemingly ignore all those trips they used to make to petrol stations. I'm not sure how often we used to fill up, but perhaps every 350-400 miles.But that's something like 30 trips a year that just don't happen anymore

Coincidentally, I've got it installed on a 2500 (non-k) i5 too. 16Gbytes of RAM, SSD, an Nvidia 1070, but no TPM, so you fail the criteria for Windows 11.

Never had an issue to be honest and I'd been running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware for a while. They received feature updates without issue, but I realise this may change in future.

I thought you could just update manually using the media creation tool if the Windows Update route didn't work.

The Rufus approach to avoid the TPM, Secure Boot and whatever other requirements worked fine for me to get Windows 11 working fine on a perfectly capable old machine, should you feel the need.

Exactly. Your choice of car style is far more important for weight than whether it's EV or ICE. A big ICE SUV or truck is going to be heavier than most EVs. In the UK say, a Range Rover Sport is heavier than all but the beefiest EVs.

As it happens, I went from a Skoda Octavia to a Skoda Enyaq. It's a bulkier car (longer/taller/wider), and funnily enough it's heavier, but it's kerb weight is remarkably similar to the ICE Skoda Kodiaq, which is only a little physically bigger.

In denser countries like the UK, you need to wean people off the idea they need 500 miles of range, as with current battery tech, we waste a whole lot of weight lugging around bigger batteries than we need. But for now, with people overly bothered about ra

Shame that's not even in the slightest bit true. You can get a 960Gbyte SSD cheaper than that from Dell in their servers, even on web prices, which are often considerably higher than the prices you can pay via other routes.

No, it could charge Full Speed. But Full Speed meant slow speed, not full speed. Full speed at the time was High Speed, not to be confused with later SuperSpeed, which is faster than both Full Speed or High Speed. But SuperSpeed can be faster than SuperSpeed too, and SuperSpeed+ is faster again, unless it isn't, because SuperSpeed can be faster than SuperSpeed+.

They definitely stuffed up the nomenclature of USB, even if you ended up in a much better place than you started out before USB.

Although if you have faith in there being a decent vaccine at some point soon, you can do as New Zealand have and be strict and highly responsive to outbreaks, and have less restrictions than countries that sat back and did very little until they had a widespread outbreak. If a vaccine does emerge quickly, countries like New Zealand end up looking rather good. If a vaccine is a long time coming, then they probably are fighting a battle they can't win, but do note that in general they've had fewer restrictions than other countries that have had large numbers of deaths. I find it hard to criticise their approach as things stand.

It's far from good research, and they didn't release enough of the data, but the summary spreadsheet is at least partially helpful. Still, they're not assessing which plans are used, just which ones are available.

I know this is uncouth even doubting you, but you did read the article, right?

"Denmark, Monaco and Italy all offer packages below $2."

Actually, no. I'm online for reasons of being contactable, so I can share my realtime location with people, and so that I can access the Internet when I need to. That 5Mbytes a day 100% satisfies that requirement.

I have no great need to watch Netflix on my walk to work.

I pay a penny per megabyte, and in a busy month I hit ~150Mbytes, even if I include a bit of tethering. I have wifi at home, on the bus, at several places on my walk to work, and almost everywhere in the city. I don't make a measurable number of calls/texts, and pay no fees on top of that.

I can live with less than £20 a year for a mobile service.

You really need to unpick this research though, as £44 for 1GB would be quite a challenge to hit. If you can go contract free and pay £10 for 1GB (charged per MB), then I can't imagine many people will be signed up to plans that are £44.

To be honest, I don't think mobile plans are actually that badly priced in the UK anyway, it's just lots of people sign up to crap deals, and blow silly amounts of money on buying phones on credit. You can haggle deals massively, but even if you don't look at something like plusnet mobile, where you get 1.5Gbytes, unlimited texts, unlimited calls for £7pm. Pick a random other supplier, Three, and you hit 100Gbytes a month for £21, and unlimited for £27, which lines up with the cheapest figures in their data.