New phenomenon Electric car charging cables

We have some charging points in lampposts round here, if we had an electric car I would have to use them as we don't have off street parking. At the moment I would prefer a self charging hybrid as charging points outside the big conurbations sound a bit iffy.

Katie59

EV are cheap to run at present for those that can charge at home, others that pay to charge elsewhere don’t save much. Taxation of EVs will increase and road pricing will be brought in to replace fuel tax, on the other side EVs will become cheaper to buy.
Cars will also become more automated, maybe self driving, even speed limiting, much more to come yet, to make transport less polluting and safer too.

I am still learning but I can assure you that fully charging your car for 200 miles range at a charger is very much cheaper than the petrol needed to drive 200 miles. So far I have used mainly free chargers.
You say cars “will become more automated, maybe self driving even speed limiting.” Our new car has all those features already. I have driven 35 miles without using the steering wheel, the accelerator or the brakes. On Monday we will be driving 200 miles and intend to see how far we can get only using the indicator. You can set the cruise control to travel at the speed limit or any other speed you wish and it happily changes speed as limits change.
Overtaking requires the use of the indicator but once you indicate you wish to change lanes the car decides when and how to do it. It parks itself, frontways between two cars, reversing between two cars and the dreaded parallel parking. I have seen it demonstrated by OH but have yet to try it myself.
So wish me luck for Monday, using no steering, no accelerator, no brakes, and most importantly no fossil fuels, Manchester here we come!

Apparently, the batteries are difficult to dispose of and pose a threat to the environment. Also, when will the astronomical price of these cars come down?

The batteries can be re-purposed for supporting the use of solar energy when they are no longer sufficient to power the car.

polnan

I agree GreenLady102!

come the day when someone/the Government,,will be saying electric cars are no good, everyone should get a ??????
remember diesels were the "beesknees" and on and on,

I prefer horse and carts!

?? but then we’d be swamped in horse manure and have a problem with that!,

I have an old car and after listening to a R4 programme called Sliced bread have decided that it’s kinder to the planet to keep it till it drops apart!

when it needs replacing I will buy anEV but , hopefully, by then we will have solar panels and one of the Tesla batteries.

If it's a cable that can be laid flat, you can buy a length of that rubber floor cable cover protector. It's the sort of thing you sometimes see in offices or shops to stop trip hazzards. I bought some last year for when mum had an electric hospital bed put in the front room. I bought it off Amazon.