When I talk right here of electric Six, I refer not to my favourite disco-punk-garage band. No, the electric six I have in mind are the half lots electric car-related problems that sometimes haunt me.
They are: power outages; prohibitively high retail costs for EVs; variety as well as variety anxiety; woeful under-investment in charging infrastructure; the commonly ignored (though not by auto Express) human, environmental as well as production costs of EV tech as well as dead batteries; as well as WLTP testing procedures as well as quoted varieties that can still be wide of the mark.

‘How will the national Grid cope when millions of EVs are plugged in?’

The very first of my electric six concerns – the progressively typical power cut – is in some aspects the one to concern about least, since such outages don’t bother individuals of leccy on a everyday basis. Or at least that’s what I believed before my working week beginning Monday, 14 June. I was in my home-office studio for one of my routine (I’ve been doing ’em since 1985) BBC radio slots from noon to 1pm. most callers had concerns about EVs as well as the joys, frustrations, plus all-in costs of driving as well as charging one. Mid-sentence as well as mid-programme I was completely cut-off. The reason? A power outage, which the culprit – UK Power Networks – coldly as well as unapologetically assured me by text was “unplanned” as well as “unexpected”. UKPN stated it “didn’t understand this was going to occur so providing prior notice was not possible”.
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